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Message: <blockquote data-quote="OnlineDM" data-source="post: 5439865" data-attributes="member: 90804">I agree that a $5 fee to play in an organized event could be very fair. Our store charges $2 per player for Living Forgotten Realms right now, which goes toward a gift certificate for the DM of the game. $5 wouldn't be unreasonable.However, my expectation (which could be completely wrong) is that the new program in September will be run with the requirement that players will bring decks of Fortune Cards that they've selected to work well with their character, rather than buying a pack of random cards for that night's event. Sure, you COULD buy a random pack on the spot, but I'm guessing that this particular event series is intended to be the equivalent of a Constructed event in Magic: The Gathering (players bring their own deck), rather than a Limited event (players build a deck from cards they open on the spot). I'm betting that WotC wants to use this event series to create demand in the secondary collector market for these cards, leading to some cards being more desirable and valuable than others. That dynamic is part of what makes Magic a successful business model (people buy packs of cards partly in the hope of getting that awesome rare card they need more of for their deck). This is just a guess, though.</blockquote>