« Last post by TheJaylor on June 10, 2025, 08:41:00 AM »
Hey Dan! Were you a part of the Twin Cities playgroup back in the day? Not sure I recognize just the first name, but this is Jayden Alstad if that rings any bells for you. Anyway, we still have a decent group going in the TC area, but unfortunately I suspect none of our guys would have need of an older collection like this.
A few years ago now there was a "rotation" that means the older cards (pretty right up until you stopped collecting it seems) are no longer tournament legal, at least for higher level tournaments, but for most Locals and Districts as well. As a result, the value of and interest in the older cards dropped significantly. There might be a few people online here interested in collecting the older sets and would be willing to take them off your hands for the right price, but just wanted to give you a heads up they are probably few and far between and the price might be a little lower than you were hoping.
Hopefully you find someone though and if you're ever interested in picking the game back up or at least just want to try playing a game with the latest Starters, feel free to reach out and we can meet up sometime!
« Last post by magmatron497 on June 05, 2025, 03:49:34 PM »
Bills are starting to pile up and so I need to sell my collection, I haven't played the game in a literal decade, but I used to be quite the avid collector and player, I'm really trying to keep it simple by selling this whole collection as one, trying to manage individual sales for the sheer volume of what I have would be too much for me right now. Unfortunately, I also have no idea what my collection is worth, I'd love some insight from the community as well. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FZyD3zPcpMoi7O_Yyvt9ItsUxs0njOSUfeiSC67YTcU/edit?usp=sharing this is a list of the cards I have in my collection. I'm based in the Twin Cities Area in Minnesota so I would be willing to do local drop off for someone in the area (Honestly, driving a state over would still probably be cheaper than shipping so I have a bit of range for in person). Please let me know if you're interested.
« Last post by StayFrosty138 on May 20, 2025, 09:21:19 PM »
So I started playing Redemption right after Cloud of Witnesses came out. I was a pompous little kid who struggled to open up to anyone on a personal level. I joined a church in my area that a cousin of mine went to, called Meridian Baptist. There, I got associated with there youth group. It was fairly large at the time, but I struggled to click with a lot of the kids. The group recently had a change of church leadership and had an interim youth pastor. This was a man named Chris Fachman. One thing that Chris would often do after Wednesday youth group was host Redemption games. I didn't know what the game was at the time, but I played Magic the Gathering, so it piqued my interest. Chris taught me the game with the IJ starter decks and told me about the competitive scene. Being fairly adamant about playing, I found myself with a twenty dollar bill flipping through Chris' inventory to build my first ever T1 deck. I didn't realize at the time that this game was going to bring several blessings into my life. From the outside, it looked like a way to make church tolerable, even exciting to go to. We'd play after every service. It got to the point that Chris began taking me home so that my family didn't have to wait up on me. These car trips trapped me in conversation with Chris, which brought on growth in my spiritual and personal life. I was playing red warriors and Demons at the time, and each drive home led to me asking about the characters on my cards I was growing fond of. While I increased my biblical knowledge week by week, Chris began trying to show me what kind of man God wanted me to be. As time pasted, I got better and better at the game, traveling with Chris to other tournaments, meeting my future Redemption family. I began opening up to those around me, no longer afraid to embrace my new nerdy hobby.
I'm 20 years old now, and still playing Redemption. This game has brought me into circles with people who truly walk with God and mentor me to become a better man every day. And though this is my Redemption testimony, it wouldn't be complete without crediting my beloved mentor and friend, Chris Fachman <@460882537045295113>
« Last post by jhendrix6426 on May 20, 2025, 08:51:45 PM »
I was unable to attend Nats in 2020 due to work concerns and things around the time of the tournament. Covid made a lot of things difficult at this time. But the next year, I attended my first Nats and as long as I can manage and the Lord provides the means, I plan to keep 2020 as my last missed Nats for quite some time.
Shortly after Nats in 2021, I started The Threshing Floor that is nearing its 100th episode. I’ve traveled to countless states for tournaments where the majority of those are the first time I’ve traveled to those places. But more than anything else, this game represents deep connections to people of various backgrounds that I get the privilege of calling dear friends. I would not be involved in those relationships without this game and for that, I am eternally grateful.
I have tried to show my gratitude for what this game has given me over the past 6 years by giving back when and where I have the opportunity. Sure, I have other hobbies such as tinkering on my car, fishing and pretty much anything classified as a sport, but this hobby is the one that gives back time and time again. It helps fulfill my life by the relationships I have made and continue to make. When Rob refers to this as God’s game, I understand what he means. When utilized for the right reasons, this game can be the thing that connects us all on a deeper level, and as others like Shon have shared, it can also be used to pull people into conversations and experiences that have eternal ramifications.
I am so beyond blessed and thankful to be a small part of this community. I cherish all of the relationships I have with each of you and genuinely cannot thank you enough for welcoming me with open arms back in 2019!
« Last post by jhendrix6426 on May 20, 2025, 08:51:26 PM »
I don’t have an extensive background in card games. Granted, in elementary school I collected Pokémon cards like everyone, but I never learned to play the game. In middle school, I dabbled with Yugioh as I did like the show at that age. I learned the basics from a starter deck and attended my only tournament of my youth when I ran into a grown man playing a blue eyes ultimate dragon deck. If you don’t understand that, just know, he had a 3 headed version of my best character. I got destroyed. I remember walking away wondering what a grown man like that got out of picking on kids with decks like mine. I suppose this was Yugioh’s version of an RLK experience, haha! Shortly after that, I gave my cards away and my time with trading card games was over for quite a while.
Sometime after I got married, my newly minted brother in law got into playing Yugioh. I had money and figured I could avenge the defeat of my youth. I built the best dragon deck money (within reason) could buy. I went to a regional and played decent and placed in the 30s of a field that had over 100 players. Not great, not terrible. After that, I didn’t play that much, just when my brother in law would come over. After a few more months, I lost enthusiasm to play due to game changes and also the conviction I had over some of the themes of the game and its characters. I ended up putting my cards away for a while before eventually giving them to my brother in law. At this point, I was sure I was done playing card games.
After quite a few years, my wife and I started attending a new local church. The youth pastor there was looking for volunteers to help with the youth group. Having previously served a stint as a volunteer youth pastor, I felt like God put me there to help serve, so that is what I did. One summer night, on a youth outing after service to the local Chick-fil-A, this youth pastor asked me if I had ever heard of Redemption. Clueless as I was, I left that conversation that night and made a plan with this youth pastor to meet at our local Lifeway store that was going out of business. Lo and behold, Lifeway had I/J and G/H starter decks along with loose booster packs from Angel Wars. Now, if you know anything about me, you know how much disdain I hold for the Angel Wars set. This almost turned me away from the game immediately as it presents the game as a cheap knockoff type game versus something with real merit. But, thankfully I stuck with it.
By now, you may have guessed, but the youth pastor in this story is none other than my good friend Brad Gaillard - the first co-host of The Threshing Floor podcast.
Brad and I played endlessly after that learning the game. At the same time, I was testing my wife’s patience by aggressively building my collection with new card purchases from Derek of Your Turn Games who was a tremendous blessing as I was starting out. He volunteered time and effort to help me understand the game and asked questions about the collection I was building and offered suggestions that were mutually beneficial for his business and my growing competitive-ish deck. This time of learning the game and developing a deeper connection with Brad while playing was such a fun time, even if it did cost me a Bluetooth speaker and a toolbox. Ask Brad about that one, ha!
In August of 2019, I connected with Jay Chambers on Facebook. We planned a day and I showed up and met him and his brother Jeremy to play some games. This was the first time I had met anyone else in the Redemption community and it unlocked quite a few things for me. I got to see awesome Nationals promos, completely built competitive decks (even if they were built by Jay), along with understanding that the players of this game differed from all the ones I had encountered previously with their level of hospitality and their stories of this wonderful community. I thought maybe Derek was just friendly because it was lining his pockets, but I learned from this experience that his actions were genuine. From that day on, I was plugged in!
« Last post by agurthewise on May 20, 2025, 07:20:56 PM »
So I grew up playing Redemption as a kid in elementary school. We had Redemption packs at the local family Christian stores and at our book fair. I remember playing with my friend very casually, just playing big angels, big number enhancements, nothing really competitive, but it was fun. I quit redemption when my friend stopped playing.
I got involved in other card games, started with World of Warcraft TCG and moved onto Magic the gathering and played it for a long time. I had a small YouTube video series and paid articles for mtg. After a while I moved onto other online games and dropped tcgs.
Fouryears ago when I got engaged to my fiancé (now amazing wifey Becka), I was looking through my mtg cards to sell and ran across my Redemption cards.
I thought I should check if the game still going like or if these cards are worth anything, so I could sell them. I looked it up on the discord. I hopped on and I saw the game still going in. I get a message like immediately from Roy “ do you wanna play Redemption today?”
Wow it’s crazy like it’s still going and there’s people in San Antonio that play Redemption. He invited me over play a few games it was really awesome. The whole play group is awesome and I started going by. I’m not the person to buy product for myself so I didn’t just buy boxes Redemption to get back into it, but I started playing with the locals. They gave me a lot of free cards and then I entered some drafts and started collecting . It was a huge blessing.
I love Redemption because God‘s word is a passion of mine so to be able to have a passion of mine intersect with another passion of mine in in in playing strategic games is really fun and I love the community. I love ability that we can pray together at tournaments that we can honor God together that we can encourage each other in the faith.
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