Trading Card Games are in an odd place. They're probably more popular than ever, with more playing them than ever. Given Magic: The Gathering's recent big focus on crossover events, which makers of Wizards of the Coast keep reporting as being phenomenally successful, they're probably making more money than ever.
At the same time TCGs are still competing for attention with the last decade's huge growth in the resurgent board game, miniatures wargame, and roleplaying game communities. They're also sharing space with digital card games, which give many people the strategic experience of playing a TCG without the social one.
