Quote Originally Posted by Lemnear View Post
Just for stating the obvious: 3000$ decks aren't helping the format grow. Neither does killing the collectible aspect via mass reprints or a fake-flooded market.
Mass reprints do zilch to kill the collectible aspects because they don't make anything less collectible. I know I keep bringing this up, but I'll do it again: Do you know how much it costs to get a copy of Shakespeare's plays? Nothing. You can look them up on the Internet. But let's suppose you want a physical copy. You know how much that will cost? The Oxford Shakespeare is about $25. Now, do you know how much original copies of The First Folio (the first collection of Shakespeare's plays) cost? Millions of dollars. Because they're genuine collectibles. The fact there's twenty zillion copies of Shakespeare's plays floating around or the fact that you can get them for really cheap isn't hurting them because their value comes from their collectibility, not their usability. No one thinks to themselves that they want to sit down and read some Shakespeare, then go and try to get a copy of The First Folio to do so.

If a mass reprint kills a card's value, it isn't because it hurt the collectible aspect. It's because that card wasn't really a collectible to begin with, and its high price came from its usability.