I "sponsor" several of my friends who also play the game--the only downside to sharing a cardpool is that it can be difficult to have multiple decks that use the same faction and that several cards fit very well into lots of decks. Ultimately if you're sharing cards, not everyone is going to be able to make a top-tier tournament deck, but I'm sure that several (4, maybe 5) very good decks can be run at a time.

jhaelen said:

This is the real point. The problem with duel games is that if you do not have opponents then the game nvr gets played. I think this is why there the co-op lotr game is so popular.

I think CoC is a great game, but I do not get to play it nearly as much as I like, as there are so few players. I tend to play almost solely in lackeyccg because if this.

GrahamM said:

I have the entire pool apart from dreamlasnds and just recently made 6 50 card decks, 2 of witch are T-Grade.

You are right it is very hard to make fun decks for others but if your playing with your friends you do not need T-Grade decks, and there is easily enough cards to make even more than 6 fairly decent decks.

I have a friend who bought the first few cycles and the core set all at once. Since it's only a small group of us playing, he brings out a new pack every 4 to 6 weeks to replicate the growth of the card pool. It's pretty cool since it gives us time to explore the new cards and start incorporating new tactics. We also share cards and so if we get a deck idea we have to work around using the same factions to a degree.

I would at least get the core set and try out the mechanics. If you like it you could expand to the first cycle, and from there decide to keep going or not.