But here's the thing:

Magic is just making up their characters as they go along ... VS. is using actual characters that exist.

If MANY of the people that play Magic don't know or care WHO the things on their cards are ... why would Vs. players NEED to 'know' the people on theirs?

I know that Magic has some books like D&D does that 'explains' the sets, etc ... but then again, so does Vs.

You want to know about the Squadron? They have a trade paperback of their 12 issue mini-series that pretty much covers MOST of everything you need to know.

You want to know about X-Statix? They're entire print run is collected in, I believe, 5 or 6 trade paper backs:

[1 for X-Force, 1 for the first part of the comics, 1 for the Dead Pop Star thing, 1 for the Avengers cross over, and 1 in the middle somewhere ....]

Regardless ... the Vs. characters are less 'obscure' than the Magic stuff is ... So the people who play Vs. BECAUSE of the characters ... are likely the comic buffs that get excited about obscure characters.

Not to mention ... they've shown a TON of willingness towards making multiple versions of the same character so "we've done it" isn't going to cut it in terms of not wanting to make more of the 'popular' characters.

You are putting teh cart before teh horse there.

People play magic the game first and the characters are secondary.

In Vs people read the comics first(I imagine most of the time it wasn't in mine, but still) and then play the game.

wel if people are playing for the characters, then they would love to see the obscure guys.

if people are playing for the game, then they don't care about the characters.

i don't see an issue.

This post needed to be re-quoted... AGAIN.

After reading the last 6 or more pages, the general consensus (even from high-level Magic players) is that VS is less reliant on luck and more skill intensive. In my area, that's why I think a lot of Magic players DON'T play VS. They would rather not think about formations and PT/LOC management and hope to topdeck that Island or Pot of Greed. Now I'm not saying MtG (or YGO) players are not skilled, but I think that middle ground of players... the more casual group would rather just play than think (like markslack said). That and the fact they already invested how much money into their collection really makes it hard to crossover to VS.

As for IP... I disagree with Goop (sorry bro)... I don't ever see an end to the content for VS. That post by Cyke was HUGE... it took me more time to read that list than this whole thread!

I like MtG... but I would rather like to play a VS game than sit around, draw a card, not have a land and say "Say go"*.

*A player says that all the time and we always answer "Go".

Magic has Deranged Hermit.

Until Vs. gets Squirrel Girl, it will not reach the highest level.

Here she is: http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/sqlgrl.htm

doesn't Ch'pp count?

No way. Look at her fur.

Wow, stu... that made my day.

Fur Lovers Unite! (FLU)

Oh God, now I need to start another team.

That's Stu, always looking for a piece of tail...

P.S. Be careful about the Fur Lovers Unite business or you'll have the entire French female populace beating down your door...

Break out the hedge trimmers, we're going in!!!

Some things are beyond repair...besides, then they wouldn't be furry anymore...

... YARR!!!

I don't like people saying how bad missing a land drop is. It's not irrecoverable, you usually don't miss them them as often as people say, and it's about as bad as underdropping.

Oh My God
Is that Doctor Doom being defeated by SQUERRELS?!

Oh My God
It is.


*sigh* tis is a sad day in my life...