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My DD will never get to play the card version of this or any other similar game, because of the economics of the thing. A kid who gets really passionate about it will keep buying cards obsessively, searching for those rare and powerful ones.

I was in the military when the first card game based on that model came out: Magic The Gathering. I had a roommate who became obsessed with the game. Every payday he'd run off to the store to buy a couple hundred dollars' worth of fairly worthless cards.

I'm fine with a DS version.

My son plays and I like it because he needs to read the cards and do some simple math when the guys get damaged... He's 5 so it's challenging for him at the moment. I agree that at a point he may want specific cards and stuff but I suppose he could use his spending money on that if he wants. I wouldnt buy them for him. He also likes video games so I like when he does something else for fun sometimes =].