Firing up EQ last night reminded me that Sony Online also recently released a collectible card game variant of EQ, and all current players get a free starter deck, so I downloaded the client for that, fired it up, and started the tutorial.

And then quit it halfway through the tutorial. It looks like a decent enough CCG, but I’ve only played them before as minigames like Arcomage in the M&M series or Pazaak in KotOR, and it quickly became clear that this was going to be a fairly daunting, complex one along the lines of MtG. It would take quite a bit of effort to learn it deeply enough to be good at it, and I don’t really have time for that right now.