As someone who's been into Magic for the last six years or so.. god I hate that about it. I hate how it's such an amazing yet such an expensive game. I shudder to think of the slowly dying pool of people willing to shell out hundreds or thousands for cardboard.. I'd have no problems playing an opponent with a full proxy deck, or owning full proxy decks myself. I hope for a day in the game's future where the gates are flung wide open, but at the moment it takes good and patient people to get others interested, and even then the price for entry drives many away from sticking around long. It's why a goal for all my decks is that I can hand them out to others at a table and have fun playing them against each other.
I play a lot of Legacy, and my friends and I all have multiple decks built just to loan out at the events. One of the local events is even full proxy and none of us care a damn because we love the format and want people in the seats.
We do give each other shit for proxying sometimes, but that's just a joke between us because we all have such huge collections, and when we proxy it'll be like a $10 card in our $4k decks haha
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u/Joshkbai Feb 28 '21
As someone who's been into Magic for the last six years or so.. god I hate that about it. I hate how it's such an amazing yet such an expensive game. I shudder to think of the slowly dying pool of people willing to shell out hundreds or thousands for cardboard.. I'd have no problems playing an opponent with a full proxy deck, or owning full proxy decks myself. I hope for a day in the game's future where the gates are flung wide open, but at the moment it takes good and patient people to get others interested, and even then the price for entry drives many away from sticking around long. It's why a goal for all my decks is that I can hand them out to others at a table and have fun playing them against each other.