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<blockquote data-quote="Sunseeker" data-source="post: 5292420">Because, quite simply, of the cost.&nbsp; Yes, certainly I can go out and buy Emrakul or Gideon, or Bolas or Vengevine, but the fact is, those 4 cards alone are going to run me right up near $100.&nbsp; Just for 4 cards.&nbsp; For a hundred dollars, I could buy an entire booster box.Sure, I may not get the 4 cards I want the most, but there are lots of good cards in any set, and there are probably 20 cards I want a lot, but not as much as say my top 5.&nbsp; Some people, like myself, see the 3rd-party cost of these cards and go: &quot;you know, it's just a piece of paper&quot;.&nbsp; And I do enjoy collecting the cards actually.&nbsp; I didn't use to, but now I do, and whenever I have the money, I pick up cards in bulk, I usually get discounts, and probability is on my side that I will get the cards I want anyway, and probably a lot more.Which IMO, is why Wizards introduced the &quot;pauper&quot; format, that is, a form within constructed(or limited) that is based around building a good deck with a limited number of rares(I think 2 is the max) or none at all.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sunseeker, post: 5292420"] Because, quite simply, of the cost. Yes, certainly I can go out and buy Emrakul or Gideon, or Bolas or Vengevine, but the fact is, those 4 cards alone are going to run me right up near $100. Just for 4 cards. For a hundred dollars, I could buy an entire booster box. Sure, I may not get the 4 cards I want the most, but there are lots of good cards in any set, and there are probably 20 cards I want a lot, but not as much as say my top 5. Some people, like myself, see the 3rd-party cost of these cards and go: "you know, it's just a piece of paper". And I do enjoy collecting the cards actually. I didn't use to, but now I do, and whenever I have the money, I pick up cards in bulk, I usually get discounts, and probability is on my side that I will get the cards I want anyway, and probably a lot more. Which IMO, is why Wizards introduced the "pauper" format, that is, a form within constructed(or limited) that is based around building a good deck with a limited number of rares(I think 2 is the max) or none at all. [/QUOTE]

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