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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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[–] 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