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Cecilily discusses the financialisation of Pokemon cards as an investment vehicle.

It's one thing that makes me pause in teaching my niece how to play, I don't want her to get caught up in the abstraction of the cards as anything other than pieces of cardboard with funny pictures of animals

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[–] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I quit playing edh/commander as soon as it started to smell like fortnite and I'm glad i switched to the children's monster game

[–] BanMeFromPosting@hexbear.net 3 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

Commander turned to shit shortly after they started making precons for commander. The first few decks were decent value for money and then they turned on the moneymaker. It sucks so much. It used to be a fun little thing where you found a legendary and decided to have some fun with it, see what you could squeeze out and now it's just slop and every single legendary is made with commander in mind and it has a bahillion effects and ugh.
Take me back to the days of kitchen-table "canadian highlander" with Krenko and Talrand

[–] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

For real. Back when you would read one line of text on a card and it would turn into the entire floor covered in cards because you had an idea for a deck.

Back when "you got that deck off the internet! " was an accusation, not an assumption

[–] BanMeFromPosting@hexbear.net 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Back when you would read one line of text on a card and it would turn into the entire floor covered in cards because you had an idea for a deck.

Original Innistraad block sicko-wistful
And now it's all just content. Feel like shit, just want him back - "Him" is the collective reaction to Garruk's Companion - A 3/2 for 2???

[–] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 2 points 15 hours ago

It's just a better bear has power creep gone too far