GoingMadlem

its fine that poor people have to play hockey with a broom against good rich people with real hockey sticks

Casual magic doesn't care about how expensive a deck is, and casual hockey is played the same way. Second you want to play at a competitive level everything changes, and you are owed nothing. You don't understand that, that's on you, no WOTC or anyone else.

starting to understand that mtgfinance is driven primarily by ayn rand

I'm not sure you actually understand anything, let alone "mtgfinance".

i understand that the application of speculative finance to the card game that i love has, over time, had a typically capitalist destructive effect on many aspects of that card game

once again, your wealth should not be a determining factor in what games youre allowed to play, and to suggest otherwise is some fucking wild ayn rand shit

Games are not automatically public domain. This isn't chess. Money has been invested, the IP is privately owned and the economics built around that are all up to us to judge whether they jive with our utility. If not just play something else. This is Magic not water.

i dont see why any of this is good or even defensible