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If the 93/94 FB groups I'm in are any indication, it's not exactly people with oodles of money buying this stuff haha

Impressive that this topic is still going strong.

A few quick points:

- It's at the point where it's now potentially profitable to invest in printing equipment to reverse-engineer the printing...

I miss the innocent times of paying $10 on Seas and playing unsleeved 1.5 decks on the ground at my high school.

Now it's all "but mah investment!!!!11!!!1"

Wanna invest go buy some stocks and...

I'd be happy to lose my "investment" if it meant that more people played.

Who cares, anyway.

"Fuck you, I got mine."

Gotcha.

From the research I've done, 99% counterfeits are coming sooner rather than later. The market is just too attractive.

Ya'll will wish that the Reserve List...

I didn't hear people crying when Berserk and SnT got reprinted recently. Or Onslaught Fetches. On the contrary.

Edit: If you're worried about losing money when buying pieces of cardboard, you...

Really.

Birds of Paradise just got *another* reprint. Alpha and Beta BoP (what I meant by really rare) continue to appreciate in spite of that.

Reprints don't hurt prices [of cards that are actually rare].

See ABU/AN/AQ.

They'll get chewed and then put some togas on them? Is this some Innistrad/Theros crossover?

j/k I know what you meant.

I hope they continue, and force Wizard's hand. This bullshit attitude towards Legacy has gone on long enough; it's already super hard to get into.

This problem is solely caused by Wizard's...

If I had money to burn, I'd probably force their hand and just go on buyout sprees. Better than blowing money at a casino.

Or Vancouver.

275k for a house? Pfft, peasant.

I prefer Italian, actually, because of the T symbol.

Oh, I definitely could enter, but judges would look at my car and laugh hysterically (or DQ it, like it would happen in a Legacy tournament). But again, that was not what I said in my original post...

ew, no. They're like the Premium Decks of cars.

He asked how I could love a format that I don't invest in. I responded with an analogy that apparently went over a few people's heads.

Let me rephrase it:

You can love cars and not want to...

I just re-read my post and the post I quoted, and I see no mention of tournaments. Actually, I specifically mentioned I wouldn't win any Concours.

Put it this way: I love my car. But, say, between paying $5000 for an original AC Schnitzer kit to put on it, plus another $2000 for paint, I instead paid $400 for a replica set and painted it in my...

I love Legacy. I have no more Legacy decks. I play proxy Legacy when I can, and have no intention whatsoever of acquiring $300 cards.

That does not change my desire to play the format.

Sweet, gonna be able to dump my Unlimited cards that nobody ever wanted now.

There is no disincentive whatsoever. Buyouts can move tge market of anything pre-Alara, pretty much.

Highest buylist currently is $6.70 (and rising, yesterday it was $5). TCG Mid last week was $3, SCG was $3.50 iirc. A cool, easy double up.

If I were in the US, I'd totally be participating in...

Not with Magic, yet. For every other collectible in history, yes.

All I know is that sooner or later, the market will implode. It always does.