"Let us say that you are right and there are two worlds. How much, then, is this 'other world' worth to you? What do you have there that you do not have here? Money? Power? Something worth causing the prince so much pain for?'"
"Well, I..."
"What? Nothing? You would make the prince suffer over... nothing?"
I tend to want to just own the whole format. I was mostly there with modern and legacy before covid. Then they released like 40000000$ worth of staples.
"Let us say that you are right and there are two worlds. How much, then, is this 'other world' worth to you? What do you have there that you do not have here? Money? Power? Something worth causing the prince so much pain for?'"
"Well, I..."
"What? Nothing? You would make the prince suffer over... nothing?"
I mean mostly what that means is having enough duals and other staples that you can play anything with borrowing a few cards from friends with the exception of very niche decks. I never owned cradles, for instance, or tabernacles.
its frustrating because I used to be able to argue with a straight face that legacy was cheaper than standard, because once you make your initial buy/trade in, you're set. You have to pick up a few playsets of cards per year and then you don't have to buy more cards as opposed to standard where you have to make $2-300 investments every few months.
But like...That's just not true anymore. WotC has done a very good job of making every format just astronomically more expensive by printing more and more ridiculous $25-100 staples every few months to the point where its hard for me to keep up, even.
I think it's not good when borrowing is the best way to play a "collectible card game"
"Let us say that you are right and there are two worlds. How much, then, is this 'other world' worth to you? What do you have there that you do not have here? Money? Power? Something worth causing the prince so much pain for?'"
"Well, I..."
"What? Nothing? You would make the prince suffer over... nothing?"
I like some of the other business models but mtg is a natural Monopoly
"Let us say that you are right and there are two worlds. How much, then, is this 'other world' worth to you? What do you have there that you do not have here? Money? Power? Something worth causing the prince so much pain for?'"
"Well, I..."
"What? Nothing? You would make the prince suffer over... nothing?"
Yeah, right now Eternal formats are stupid expensive. Though my desire to play magic is getting lower and lower each week, between local people being attrocious to play with and other card games stealing my attention. Though I did finish building Ruby Storm in Legacy and that has been a definite breath of fresh air.
"Let us say that you are right and there are two worlds. How much, then, is this 'other world' worth to you? What do you have there that you do not have here? Money? Power? Something worth causing the prince so much pain for?'"
"Well, I..."
"What? Nothing? You would make the prince suffer over... nothing?"
there's other decks that demonstrate it better than this one but it's pretty funny that jtms was ever banned from a format he's not good enough for.
The deck looks fun. Playing 1+1 Chalice seems like a stressful amount of access to that effect to play but is pretty easy to imagine being correct
"Let us say that you are right and there are two worlds. How much, then, is this 'other world' worth to you? What do you have there that you do not have here? Money? Power? Something worth causing the prince so much pain for?'"
"Well, I..."
"What? Nothing? You would make the prince suffer over... nothing?"