Yo Dramatards, if you guys thought Yugitards were turbo cucked by KONAMI, wait till you hear how giga omega cucked Magic-cels are by Wizards of the Woke - about 2 weeks 
ago, WOTC announced that future cards will cross promote many CINEMATIC UNIVERSES 
crossovers, which would r*pe the 30 year old DnD theme of the gayme, including with Marvel CU, and......Spongebob? 
https://youtube.com/watch?v=7us923DG-Gg
https://old.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/1gciwsz/imagine_sitting_down_for_a_game_of_40k_and/
https://old.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/1gc3w97/universes_beyond_will_enter_through_standard/
https://old.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/1gc80yx/a_lot_changes_in_3_years_huh/
https://old.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/1gs0u86/dont_you_know_magic_when_you_see_it/
Apparently Wizards of the woke have been threatening to do this for 2 years and peeps had joked how tonally shit it would be to have Spongebob face off against mega-r*pe--dragon 9000, and THEN 2 weeks ago, fricking Spongebob was one of the examples 
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Makes sense. The people who will pay a hundred dollars for a deck of paper cards have to be the most exploitable
to ever live
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Aren't some cards alone hundred of dollars?
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The format where you only play with 2 year old cards usually is $200-$300 for forty cards (not including the twenty land cards that are essentially free).
It's been a long time since I paid attention to MtG prices but I remember decks of the format where you play with 15 year old cards can run $600 to $800 ish.
The format where you can play with every card is $1000+, as some cards are on the very stupid "we promise to never reprint these" list.
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they should reprint them just to laugh at the nerds crying about losing their "investment".
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Neighbor what the frick are you smoking
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I was thinking about basic lands but completely forgot about dual lands and how expensive they are even in Standard
It's been a while since I played MtG, game is shit and their digital client was proven to rig games against you when you're winning
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This is about right except the last part. First format mentioned is "standard", decks run around 300 dollars.
Second format is "modern", decks run around 1000 dollars.
Last format is "vintage", decks run around 50,000 dollars.
Legacy, where you can play almost every card, is more "reasonable" with decks running around 4000 dollars.
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It was supposed to be hyperbole
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I remember during the Return to Dominaria set about six years ago, it had two giga OP cards that were $50 each. You needed four, of both of them, so just 20% of your deck was already pushing $400. These were also brand new cards, not the super expensive vintage cards from 20 years ago.
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And everyone calls GW greedy, at least those are high quality models that are usuable in games for much longer than MTG cards.
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People underestimate how good quality the plastic in their models is compared to the rest of the market, not that it really justifies the consistent price hikes.
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Yep, just like Lego. At least Walmart sometimes has great deals on older Lego sets.
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how would anyone fall for this transparent scam? why haven't neurodivergents banded together yet to design an open source deck so the hobby isn't p2w?
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There are individual cards worth that much even outside of the most expensive formats.
When I played MTG in Seattle , mainly "modern" (a mid-level cost format) it was a bunch of lawyers and SWEs that played it, and decks were a couple thousand each.
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Eh, now that's hyperbole. Modern top tier decks are just $1,000. It's only when you get to Legacy etc. that cost starts going up to the thousands.
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Is modern cheaper now? Back when I played you could rack up about 1000$ off of fetchland manabase alone.
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These days even the most expensive fetches are under $20, with some even under $10. Mana bases are thankfully not as expensive as they used to be.
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It's about $30 if u buy it from Chinese printers.
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I was looking at a local hobby shop to buy some Warhammer minis and thought the price increases were absurd, then I saw they were also selling magic cards at the shop for up to $2700 each.
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Not like Warhammer is much better, be a 3d printer chad
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It's so much worse than that. I started playing in 1994 and quit in 1999. I was pretty serious about it. When my dad moved, I got my cards out of his basement and sold them to a distributor. Prices exploded at some point during my years away from the game and I made enough to buy a new truck outright.
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