Over the course of the summer, my 6 ½ year old daughter has seen lots of kids playing Pokémon cards at summer camp. She became interested and so we had the talk about saving up allowance money, making choices about little stuff today, or big stuff tomorrow, making sure it is something you’d actually use, yadda yadda. Long story short, the other day we hit our FLGS and each bought 1 starter deck with our own money. She’s ever so proud of her purchase, since she really earned it. So now that we’ve played a few games, she’s reading the cards, adding and subtracting multiples of 10, and having geeky fun with dad. How is this not an Epic win?
I figured the game would be super simple and "just a kid game" since I used to play Magic cards back in the day and Pokemon has an obviously young target audience, but I must say I dig the Pokémon card game. What's cool is when you buy a deck, you can upload it to the online game and play with other people online, add boosters etc just like with the real cards. So that's my timesuck du jour when I can't sleep.
