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Originally Posted by Pirate? By the way...
Apprentice is a MTG sim that lets you test decks using whatever cards you want. It's pretty easy to find over google, and completely free. If anyone gets it, post here and maybe we could try play?
Also... Magic is actually pretty cheap for a TCG. I have a very decent deck that cost altogether about 18$ Canadian. It's so fun to beat expensive (i.e. 250$) decks with it, whenever that can happen. Most rares that are legal in standard (T2) play are also cheap, with most going for about 3-5 dollars (also canadian) and the more expensive ones (which as we said before aren't necessary) are around ten dollars.
Compare that to Yu-Gi-Oh, where cards can be 20 and 30 bucks a pop... |
Yeah, MTG's actually pretty cheap as far as hobbies go. If you're spending more than $3.50 a pack, you're paying way too much. I can take a pick of most rares for under $5. Tournament heavy-hitters may go as high as $20, but there are generally substitutes you can make.
And hey, if you know how, you can make YGO pretty profitable. Just bring a pocket scale that can weigh .1 g increments. Out of a box of boosters, just pick the heaviest ones (usually around 4-5). Voila! Depending on what you got out of those packs, the money cards can go for $30 each. Sell just one, and you've made a profit on the packs, and paid off a chunk of that scale (which is usually $10-20). Used to play the game (note: USED to), that method works fairly reliably. I intend to sell said shiny money cards for a couple hundred, soon as I can find a new card place.
TCGs: Where hobbies meet capitalistic ventures.