There are many collectible card games that are really popular nowadays. Titles like Hearthstone, Magic the Gathering, and Yu-gi-oh have all been around for quite some time, and there are regular tournaments that are held for these competitions. In the case of MTG and YGO, these have both CCG and TCG variants.  The difference is that trading cards are physical products that can be traded whereas collectibles are available in digital form only and trading is not possible. Why? Well, if you would enable trading you would basically end up in a CSGO skin situation, and the game would be regarded as gambling.  Yet gambling sites are legal, so should there be collectible card games on those sites?

Poker vs. CCG

Both poker and CCGs have something in common, they are not entirely luck-based. As mentioned there are tournaments for these hobbies and they are regarded as skill-based games where luck also plays a role. So, if online poker is legal, it would make sense for these games to be playable on casino sites. Right? Not exactly, in Poker everyone is sort of equal since they are playing with the same deck, whereas here the cards you own impact the likelihood of winning, so players who don’t have access to certain cards are at disadvantage.

How Could Casinos Make it Work?

Even with the mentioned problems, it would not be impossible to add CCG to online casinos, the only thing you would have to do is remove the “collectible” component. You can find different platforms on the iDeal casinos list, which are basically casinos that accommodate a variety of payment methods, and as such cater to a wide audience. Now in order to make these collectible card games fairer, players would have to have access to all of the available cards. Basically, it would be a match where they rely on their deck-building skills and wager money on wins.

A Brand New Game

Another problem that casinos would likely encounter is that they would likely have to design a game from the ground up. Most of the TCG and CCG are aimed at teens and children, so it’s unlikely that any of the popular brands would want their product to be associated with a gambling site. So, if the author of the website wants to have a new game that appeals to the TCG audiences they would have to create a new card game with similar mechanics. Each casino can have its own project and create a unique card game for its platform that resembles some of the other popular titles.

Conclusion

So, the way things stand there are currently no CCGs in online casinos. That being said, it’s not impossible to make games that are similar and attract new players. After all casinos, host eSports events, and players compete in digital card games during these events.