Your just mad because you can't afford the $1000 it takes to get the good cards. :P

......I wish I had $1000 to get the good cards.

Card types:

Crystal Energy
Creature card (monsters/knights)
Weapon card
Shield Card
Armor card
UV mods
Trinkets (armor mods)
Heat cards (to level up weapons and attacks)
Chance cards
Clockwork cards (battle field mods)
Trap defenses
Merchant cards

Creature cards stats:
Energy (casting cost)
Attack
Defense
Type
Life bars
Status effect(if applicable)
Cr reward for defeating

Monsters are automatically assigned a damage type based on the card info (which species). They take 1 extra damage if they are weak to a damage type, but reduce by 2 for any they are resistant to. Special attacks are also indicated on the cards.

Knights start with Proto armor, shield and sword (which all have normal dmg/def) and are slightly more expensive to summon. Weapon, Armor, and Shield cards are used to modify Knights defensive and offensive capabilities, and introduces weaknesses the more heavily they are modified. Knights are also able to swap equipment with the help of certain cards. UV and Trinket mods can further increase this without major penalties, but have a high cost to obtain. They also require energy to be used to attack an opponent.

Crystal Energy cards are used to supplement Mist energy (see more below), or can be used trade for special upgrades from vendor cards.

Clockwork cards and Trap defenses are used to modify battle field properties. Stratum theme cards give bonuses to specified monster types. Map cards will define monster group rules and possible bonuses. Trap defenses are used exclusively to weaken knights attempting to attack your side of the board. Map cards are also per-requsites summoning certain types of rare creatures.

Merchant cards are special cards that present options or items that cost CE or crowns to use/obtain.

Item cards include vials, HP capsules and remedy capsules to either soften a target or aid an ally.

Change cards invoke unusual effects or events for either the player or his/her opponent. This group is the catch all for cards that don't fit into other groups.

Turn order:

-Refill Mist energy
-Pay any upkeep
-Reorganize
-Play any summon, effect, or clockwork cards
-Attack (if app)
-Combat (if app)
-End of Turn

Combat:

Combat is fairly straight forward with a Atk vs Def approach. Any dmg that can't be negated by defense is taken from the creature's life bar. If the life bar is reduced to 0, the creature is dead. If the creature survives the round, its life will be restored.

Monsters are used exclusively to defend against an invading party of knights. Special attacks/defenses and any pertinent rules will be listed on the card.

Knights are used to invade enemy clockworks. They have 3 options in combat. Normal attack, Charge attack or Shields up.
-Normal attack allows the knight to deal damage without losing the basic protection of his shield. (See below)
-Charged attack allows for a weapon specific damage bonus or effect listed on the weapon card. Use of charge attacks does not allow the Knight to use his shield for the round.
-Shields up is defensive maneuver that allows the Knight's shield to absorb all attacks until next turn. However, shields have a limit to endurance and can be battered down with the right type of attacks, leaving the knight defenseless until the end the next combat round.

Grouping: A player may assign and rearrange creatures into groups at the start of his/her turn. Each group of creatures operates as a team, and must attack/be attacked as a group.

Attacking: Players attacking my choose to deploy a party of up to 4 knights into the opponent's battle field, and target specific groups of creature or attempt to reach the Core on the other side of the opponent's battlefield. Attacking creature groups allows them to strategically weaken defenses, while aiming for the core lets the opponent select defenses but gives the attacker a chance to reach and unlock the core. When choosing to continue an attack, the player must pay an energy cost for each knight used.

Defending: When an opponent attacks, the player selects a group of creatures to act as defense of the core. Or if specifically targeted, a group must engage the attackers.

Combat resolution: When a group is engaged in combat, each player may select 1 target per creature (attacker calls first, unless card rules specify otherwise) which it attacks. Multiple creatures may choose to attack the same target, but will leave themselves open to attacks from other creatures. Special effects or cards are called after the attack and prior to damage resolution. During damage resolution, a creature being attacked will have damage adjusted based on defense and resistance, with any remainder being taken away from its life bar. Knight also have the added ability to have 1 attack absorbed by the shield during normal combat. Any excess damage that can't be absorbed by the shield is inflicted on the knight.

Failed attack: If an attack fails, the attacking player loses all progress in the current level and is returned to haven. Knights who die during combat, can be raised by another knight at a cost of half the current life bars.

Shields up: If a Knight chooses to go shields up, all attacks targeted against them are put against the shield first. If the shield can withstand all the attacks, all damage is negated. If the shield takes too much damage, its breaks and remaining damage and further attacks are inflicted on the knight. If broken, it will not regenerate until the end of the player's next turn.

Progressing through the clock works: In order progress to the core, a player must break through the enemies' clockwork defenses. In order to beat a level, the attacking player must attack, and fight through X waves of monsters defined by the map cards. If successful, they are awarded a Star noting clearance of that depth.

Example creature rules:

Gun puppies can't be involved in attacks
Wolvers have a chance to teleport and evade attacks
Trojans do not take damage unless attacked by 2 or more creatures (Shield), and will block the strongest attack.
DarkFang thwackers can only be damaged by the creature its attacking, or attacks it first.
Silkwings increase the life bar count for all monsters in the group (couldn't handle healing otherwise), but can't attack.
Menders can increase the HP bars of X number of creatures by X amount, or all creatures in the group by (smaller) X amount. Can't attack, but can evade.
Spookats can fire a secondary bullet attack, if the target manages to evade its primary bite attack
Kleptolisks can steal an item or power up card from a target it successfully damages
Blast cubes deal X damage to all monsters in the opponent group if killed.
Rock Jelly "Hiding in plain sight" - Rock jelly can be deployed from your hand into any group of allied monsters, at any time other then combat resolution.
Oilers special ability - gain +2/+1 and can inflict fire status when ignited. Can only be ignited when fighting an opponent that inflicts fire status, or when in a group with a creature that can inflict fire status to more then 1 target (ie Flame puppies, Scorchers, Firebomb Knights, etc). This ability is negated if targeted by a creature that can inflict freeze status.
Lichen: Requires 2 lichens in order to summon a lichen colony. Requires 2 Lichen colonies to summon Giant lichen colonies.
Quick Silver: If inflicted with shock status, all monsters in combat take X damage and are inflicted with shock. (each Quick silver can't be shocked more then once per turn)

Chance card examples:

Beast Crate: Played when a monster is summoned. Hides the identity of the creature its played with until its involved in combat. Can be used on (insert types of creatures), can not be used on Knights.
Party Button - Defense: Allows the defender to call in 1 additional group of monsters into combat. Targets are allowed to be reassigned, and combat continues as normal.
Treasure boxes: Can only be played during combat. At the end of combat, you gain X crowns.
Heart boxes: All friendly creatures in combat get +4 life bars until end of turn.
Energy gates: Pay X energy and flip a coin. Heads you gain X crowns, Tails this becomes a heat card.
Energy Turret: Pay X energy, can be played during combat. This card becomes an energy turret until end of turn. (include stats)
Mecha Knight Kit: Can be played during combat. This card becomes a basic Mecha Knight (include stats)
(status) Vial: Inflicts status on X number of creatures.

Vendor cards:
Punch: Place up to 3 UV cards to any single piece of equipment. Costs X crowns for 1 UV, X for 2 UVs, and X for 3 UVs (raising costs).
Vise: Allow up to 3 items from one knight to be transferred to another Knight. Cost blah blah crowns per star per item.
Basil: Search your deck for any 2 equipment cards applicable for the current tier.

Clockwork cards:
Theme cards: Status - Creatures with a matching status type gain +1 atk/+1 def. Monster Theme: Monsters of X type gain +1 atk/+1 def.
Map cards: Scarlet Fortress - Spookat family monsters automatically gain the current status theme (if applicable). Firestorm Citadel - Automatically changes the current theme to fire, and you can now summon Slag Guards.
Terminal cards: Allows Knights to change gear current gear without returning to the surface (all swapped items are bound to the knight) and may you may spend X crowns to find 1 equipment card in your deck and put into your hand.
Sub towns: Allows knights to change current gear without returning to the surface. (all swapped items are bound to the knight), and you may upgrade a piece of equipment if it has enough heat and you pay the energy cost.

Are we talking like irl tcg card packets you buy irl or an ingame tcg system that could be like a mini game with collectibles?

Thinking about it, there are several concepts in SK that don't translate well into MTG system.... but does seem to work fairly well in a Munchkin system overall.

http://www.worldofmunchkin.com/game/

Rather then beating an opponent, its a race to reach level 20 by stock piling equipment, finding treasure and defeating monsters. Your Opponent can influence combat by using certain cards to make your fight more difficult. Given the cartoonish/humorous nature of both games, I think that might be a better approach. The difference though is that its a common deck for all players... which frankly may be a better choice for small publishing.

Anyone else wanna comment?

Its best to design this around RL concepts before trying to port it into the game. Full MTG collectable style cards wouldn't work well with an AI opponent... the AI decision making process would be more complicated then worth the effort. With a fixed set of cards, it would be a lot easier.

They read things from the bottom up. The community tends to read from the top down. They'll eventually find it, but won't provide feedback. There are also several legal issues concerning what we're already doing, so they can't simply take the idea word for word and use it.