So this isn’t something I’ve brought up here before
But I hate 90% of all MTG players. Like. The crowd here on tumblr is here for story and fun kitchen table play which is why I’m here too.
Whenever I go to a card shop to play casual EDH I get hit by infinite combos, degenerate proxies, overbearing control, and one shot kills. “Oh great Magister Sphinx. Please tell me again how you used it for control against lifegain when you hit me at 40 life. Clearly I was out of control.”
Its like 90% of MTG players can only have fun if no one else is having fun. One shop owner literally told me my most prized deck (Riku hugs) wasn’t winning because it didn’t run the expensive staples every deck uses. Like, I get that it works but its boring and kills the game’s creativity.
That selfishness goes into the game’s market, too. Notice how anything in low supply suffered hoarding buyouts to resell at the raised price. One of the best tracking sites is literally called mtgstocks. I also get that without a secondary market there’s less incentive for players to buy sealed product that pays the bills so we can keep playing with cardboard but a $250 Mythic Edition is fucked. It just feels like a mad dash to take as much as you can for yourself instead of playing the game like a normal person.
