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You can see all the catagories with sets added for a particular year by browsing "non-sport" the "sets" and then select the "year".

 Here is a link to the non-sport sets for 2017. The sets are sorted by catagory.

The catagory is selected from a drop down menu when you add a set.

If you look at 2017, you see the subs highlighted bold black or you can see them in blue at the top.

Ok, thanks guys.  I have been directly Searching with parameters and not using the Browsing feature at all.  In fact, before I posted the question yesterday, I looked into Browse for the first time.  I clicked on Sets and saw Browse by Year and Browse by Brand, and thought to myself I'm close but I don't see any Browse by Sub Category... and that's when I posted the question.

Going into a particular Year was the next step that I didn't execute.

I had actually been putting in a particular year under the Search parameter, which seems to be a straight alphabetical listing with all sub categories mixed together.  I can see now how the Browse feature streamlines the search process.

Learning all the time...

One thing I want to point out, just because the number of cards for Magic, Pokeman, etc, are are not as large as some of the other things mentioned...it really means nothing. Most of the gaming cards are not listed here yet.

I'm pretty sure they have more cards than auto racing. (one of my main focii) I am sure they have more cards than MMA. Boxing, Tennis, Golf, all of those have their own section, and I believe- though really just guessing- they have a lot less cards than the gaming does. They (the sports I just mentioned) may be more completly listed here, however.

I'm also pretty sure there are more gaming cards released every year than the NBA is currently getting, but that's more of a complaint about Panini than anything about the gaming cards.

The gaming cards also have a longer history than MMA, which has had it's own listing since I became a member here. (I bought my only pack of the sport specifically so I could contribute something to the section here, by the way).

For what it's worth, I have encountered some gaming card people who don't consider themselves card collectors. How do we reach out to them and let them know we have a place for them here? I don't know- it's not a world I'm a part of.

You are saying a lot of what I said last night. If MMA, Boxing, Tennis and Golf can get their own listings inside of Sports categories here on TCDB, I think the card games like Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh and Magic the Gathering deserve their own spot in the Non-Sport category. A separate listing for those 3 brands alone would help attract new members to the site.

This part below is not directed at Billy, but to everyone readng this thread:

I just HAVE to say this about previous mentions of the baseball category being too big. HOW? There is absolutely no way to split up over 100 years of continous products for one sport. I don't know why anyone even thought that was a good or feasible idea. Baseball cards are still baseball cards, no matter who made them, when they were made, or how they can be sorted. There should never be some sort of break in the listing of baseball cards on here. Baseball cards basically started the hobby! I know there are cards older than baseball cards and I know people collect them to this day. But those wouldn't be known or popular if baseball cards hadn't gotten people interested in cards in the first place. Baseball wasn't called the National Pasttime for many decades for no reason at all!

Billy Kingsley wrote:

One thing I want to point out, just because the number of cards for Magic, Pokeman, etc, are are not as large as some of the other things mentioned...it really means nothing. Most of the gaming cards are not listed here yet.

I'm pretty sure they have more cards than auto racing. (one of my main focii) I am sure they have more cards than MMA. Boxing, Tennis, Golf, all of those have their own section, and I believe- though really just guessing- they have a lot less cards than the gaming does. They (the sports I just mentioned) may be more completly listed here, however.

I'm also pretty sure there are more gaming cards released every year than the NBA is currently getting, but that's more of a complaint about Panini than anything about the gaming cards.

The gaming cards also have a longer history than MMA, which has had it's own listing since I became a member here. (I bought my only pack of the sport specifically so I could contribute something to the section here, by the way).

For what it's worth, I have encountered some gaming card people who don't consider themselves card collectors. How do we reach out to them and let them know we have a place for them here? I don't know- it's not a world I'm a part of.

Billy wrote: "For what it's worth, I have encountered some gaming card people who don't consider themselves card collectors. How do we reach out to them and let them know we have a place for them here? I don't know- it's not a world I'm a part of."

That would describe both of my sons, and they are really not card collectors in the traditional sense. Both are state/regional Magic the Gathering players and typically compete in "standard" tournaments, which is one of several formats in use. The different formats are similar to poker, bridge, or pinochle in that all are based on a common pool of cards but some formats use only a specific subset of the cards. Standard for example uses only the cards issued over the last three years or so, with cards added as new sets are released throughout the year and the older sets being dropped from the pool every fall, so only the most recent 5 to 8 sets are in use at any given time. Once a card is dropped from the standard pool it disappears are far as those players are concerned, though it can still be used in other formats, such as modern and legacy. Because of this rotation, standard players usually don't keep cards that long, and unless they get attached to a particular card for some reason they sell everything sooner or later, preferably sooner. Neither one is interested in the things that make the database useful for "collectors" like us, and there are online resources specifically designed to cater to the things they do care about, so I'm guessing we will never see most of that crowd here. That said, there are some traditional collectors of MTG and other gaming cards but they are a definite minority. I've asked my son who manages a gaming/comic store to mention the site to the collectors he deals with, but my guess is we're typically only going to see the small percentage that randomly run across the database, much like the sports card collectors who become members.

Since I started this thread, let me attempt to summarize the thrust of the discussion as I read it: The overall membership feels that the addition of a Non-Sport Gaming category would be appropriate if feasible from Admin's perspective, but there is no good reason to separate the dozen or so other Non-sport areas into separate lists, in part because they are somewhat poorly defined and would make finding cards more difficult for the average user. There is less consensus on the exact scope or format of the Non-Sport Gaming category, but MTG, Pokemon, and Yu-Gi-Oh should all be included at a minimum, with traditional playing cards and other gaming sets possibly warranting consideration.  

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I was at my local Barnes & Noble today, and noticed there were publications specifically for the gaming cards, which did not include traditional trading cards whatsoever. I'm not sure if that's a swaying factor or not, but I was already in the "Separate category" camp anyway. I will state though that there are NOT separate, dedicated publications for some of the sports that already have their own listings, for what that's worth.

I would agree with this summary.

The overall membership feels that the addition of a Non-Sport Gaming category would be appropriate if feasible from Admin's perspective, but there is no good reason to separate the dozen or so other Non-sport areas into separate lists

 Hutnut said:

Because of this rotation, standard players usually don't keep cards that long, and unless they get attached to a particular card for some reason they sell everything sooner or later, preferably sooner. Neither one is interested in the things that make the database useful for "collectors" like us, and there are online resources specifically designed to cater to the things they do care about, so I'm guessing we will never see most of that crowd here.

I think as far as MTG goes this may be a bit shortsighted. Even though they may not be interested in the "collector" side of the database, they would certainly find value in a vibrant MTG trading community if it were here.The activities you are describing are exactly what is most useful to a community like the MTG community. It's actually built right into the description. It's a collectible trading card game. The trading card game community does more trading of cards than you could ever imagine. This database is the perfect tool for trading cards like your 2 boys are describing. I'm absolutely certain that they both have trade binders of cards they bring with them to every event to trade cards with others. Virtually every MTG player does. Wouldn't they find it useful to post their FS/FT and Wantlists here? If this site became the go to place for peer to peer MTG trades, the traffic would be unbelieveable. It's like everyone from everywhere being able to bring their trade binders to one "store" (the TCDB) all at once with the perfect tools to match up trades.