@Marcos Kosteraku Sollero: Oh sweet! I notably had some judge reward fetch lands that I sold for 3x what I bought them for. Had tons of fun playing EDH in its early days.
@Nos Rin: Yugioh was my first TCG love as well. I judged some events, local and international, back when. Great times
personally for me, yugioh was always more fun, but magic was a superior game. I mean magic might have some newer weird mechanics, but the last few things from yugioh have just been.... sigh.
@Marcos Kosteraku Sollero: I feel it will always kind of be that way. "if I had waited I'd have gotten more." Kind of hard to decide, sometimes you just sell when you need the money and don't look at the possible future.
@Jordan Russell: you dont have a 20-card play in Magic the way YGO decks usually go (like Zoodiac, Kozmo or most meta archetypes). Resources make the pacing much more slow allowing for a build up. Also, there is no errata / rulings for individual cards, so its more consistent.
if you get a good card while it's fairly easy to find them, and sell it later, you can make some money, and there are people who do this for a living (grinders in mtgo exist xD)
well, my paper mtg collection actually payed for a lot of things
I had 4 Force of Will cards when they were new, and I sold them 5 years later for faaaaaaar more than I payed for them (and if I hadn't nowadays I would have a lot more money)...
It was quite some time ago I played MTGO, but back then the online market was comparable to the physical card market, which meant that if you sold your entire collection, you would get most of your money back. There were also player bots that acted as stores where you could by and sell cards.
Also, at least for now you can still play qualifiers for high-level paper events on Magic Online, saving you the need to travel. And because the expense and clunkyness acts as a deterrent for casuals, its a better tool for testing. Of course, clowny decks can still be found, but less so.
Its not about getting your money back; its about getting the stuff you want right away, instead of pulling on a random lever like a rat inside a skinner box. Which it still is, just with more shortcuts and directly buying the card you want instead of playing micro-transaction roulette.
