Sorry, I didn't know QCDN opinions were restricted to positive-only.
That is by no means what I'm saying. I meant no offense. The op asked about people that still play and what kind of decks they used. You answered with "I always fucking hated it."
If you feel like coming into a thread where people are talking about something they like expressly to tell us what a huge corporate scam it is while letting us know how much you don't like it, you are free to do so. It just doesn't seem like you to make posts without actually contributing to the conversation at hand.
The point I've been trying to make, that no fucking magic cards fan will ever admit, is that the more cards you play, the stronger you are as a player. Not... the bigger deck, the more cards, ext. The more cards you buy, the better decks you can build - the more ability you have to trade for the specific cards you want.
That is the point of the game. Some of us do it differently, but yes, that's how it goes.
It's an advantage, get the fuck over it. It's a very advantageous position to be in, the collector of money based on the obsession of magic card target audience. Now obviously they're going to be breaking their back over keeping their fans in the game. This means there's a combination of keeping value on older cards to keep players from being frustrated and quitting, while at the same time keeping motivation to continually buy new cards.
So what? WotC is a business. They are in it to make money. I didn't quit buying cards out of frustration, I quit buying cards because my bag got full. There are people who like to make up there own rules and build crap decks out of old cards to play against each other.
Last time I really played any magic, me and 4 of my friends put 5 bucks into a pot, then we all made 5 color decks out of my cards and had a little winner take all tournament. Then the winner took the money and ordered some pizzas for everyone.
To make matters even more complicated, they continually rank different cards as unusable in different "types". These multiple type setups of course motivates you to keep your old cards for the types they're usable, but get new cards for filling in the gaps.
Fuck them. I don't pay attention to there rules and probably couldn't even name 1 of the past 25 sets to come out. Their rules suck and I have always ignored the whole "banned" and "restricted" bullshit. If I have a card, I'm going to play with it when I want to. If someone doesn't like the way I play, they can play with someone else.
The game is poorly balanced as a result of slipping in extremely powerful cards to keep motivation high for newer cards. The people obsessed with winning at any costs spend enourmous amounts of money on getting these cards. So they buy lots of decks to have cards to trade for what they want or buy cards directly from people which in turn increases the reason for other people to buy decks so they can sell to them.
There are people that do that with everything. Ticket Scalpers, Baseball cards, Dynamis Currency, Drug dealers... Buy low sell high. This is a capitalist nation and that is how it works.
In order to make a game like Magic Cards balanced, certain modifications would be needed. Every player would need to have equal access to any card they want regardless of how much money they spent. The only way they could happen would be for the game to be electronic. From that angle if they wanted it could be subscription based, in which case, the game would get the continual support of new cards (that magic card fans probably all see as worth the price of the conflict-of interest in making new decks) based purely on keeping interest, while keeping everyone on equal balance.
Magic isn't supposed to be balanced. If it was, it would be boring. It's fun laying the supreme smackdown on an unsuspecting noob that thinks they have the best deck ever. In turn it's amazing to see a pro beat me in 3 turns when I have a good deck. The artwork on the cards is interesting. The flavor text on cards is interesting to read. Why would i want to play someone who has the exact same cards as me?
As a physical based game, the randomness will have to be removed from the decks sold. Each deck must be specifically linked to an list of what's in them, which will allow everyone to build what deck they specifically want without having to buy many cards.
So do you just not like the fact that you have to spend small amounts of cash to play? It sounds like you just can't justify spending any money at all on magic cards. Either that or you spent every dime you had on it and continually got beat for about a year.
I'm guessing it's more so because you're cheap and less the whole sour grapes thing. It could be a little of both though, or something entirely different. I guess that is a topic that only you can explore.
