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I did the same for Star Wars and Magic: The Gathering Cards for a while after that. I would go on to spend dozens, then eventually hundreds of dollars on Pokémon cards, until eventually I had the full Basic, Jungle and Fossil sets, all cards locked away in a little binder, never to be actually played with.

In it was a holofoil Charizard, what I would learn was the most rare card in the set, and after that, I was hooked.

When I was thirteen, I opened up my first pack of Pokémon cards. So what's happened here? How has Blizzard stumbled upon a magic formula that allows someone like me to spend more on their free-to-play game than I paid for my entire PlayStation 4 at launch?įor me it's because in a way, card packs have been a microtranscation I've been comfortable with ever since I was little.