Want to play paper legacy because it's the best format

>want to play paper legacy because it's the best format
>the way magic was supposed to be played, most skill intensive, all archetypes are equally good
>don't want to dish out 3000$ for a viable deck

>want to drive an Formula One racecar because it's the best format
>the way racing is supposed to be done, most skill intensive, incredible history
>don't want to dish out $9.4 million for a regulation car

>being tricked into paying ridiculous amount of money for worthless paper because of a lifetime of being memed on
>"b-b-but it's f-fun who cares if my life is a trainwreck"
Psychological issues.

>want to play polo because it's the best sport
>the way balls are supposed to be struck, most patrician, all horses are equally horsey
>don't want to dish out $millions for a stable of quality mounts

If ya'll don't wanna spend real money on MTG, play the format of your choice kitchen-table style, or play Pauper. This shit ain't hard.

>want to PK in the wildy because it's the best PvP
>the way Runescape was supposed to be played, most skill intensive, all magic users are equally good
>don't want to dish out 500gp for cooked shark

>want to be CEO of a Fortune 500 company because it's the best job
>the way capitalism was supposed to be played, most skill intensive, all hairstyles are equally good
>don't want to dish out a small loan of a million dollars to get me started

>tfw forgot to change the oil on my EDH deck
Cars are machines, numbnuts, so it makes sense that they'd be expensive. It doesn't cost Wizards extra money to print legacy staples.

>the value of things is determined by the cost of production
Socialist get out

>all archetypes are equally good

RIP Zoo

>implying it's not
The value of things are determined by cost of production or supply plus demand. Wizards could increase the supply available by just a little bit and reap huge amounts of money because of the large demand for roughly the same cost of printing new cards, maybe even less when you consider that they don't have to R&D reprints.

>Want to fuck twin russian supermodels at the same time
>The way sex was supposed to be had
>Don't want to dish out $30,000 and then more for the STD treatments.

>Want to eat at Ruth's Chris Steakhouse
>The way food was meant to be eaten
>Don't want to dish out $200 on a cut of meat

Play Eldrazi Stompy or Burn for a few hundred, win local events until you can afford other deck parts.

Adam Smith was a socialist? That's some serious historical revisionism. I bet YOU'RE the socialist.

>mff "the way sex is supposed to be had"
never understood this desu. It just doesn't work out. Too many sockets not enough plugs
>implying magic cards aren't haute cuisine

All the stupid analogies only make you more aware of how fucked up the MTG market is.

This shit is not driven by superiorly tuned functionality, intrinsic cost of gear or elite pampering. It's literally jews saying "$250 per land" and people following suit like retards.

Anyway, you can play Manaless Dredge for $100 or Burn for $400, beat most of the $3000+ decks and turn your store credit into duals. That's the only way to get duals without being a fool puppet of the merchant.

>Play for 16 years
>acquire cards for cheap as chips
>build whatever I want

das it mane

Either play Pauper or opt for the Endlösung and play Dredge.

You don't have to pay for cards though, that's the beauty of mtg, it's all abstract, it's just rules and text boxes

Print your own, or buy high quality fakes for real cheap if you like, or play on a simulator like cockatrice

Unless you're some kind of expert professional legacy player, you won't miss out on anything because you're probably not good enough to do well in major events anyway

You can't print out a fake Lamborghini for 1/100 the cost and drive 200mph

You can't print out a fake super model and fuck her for 1/100 the cost

You can't print out a fake steak dinner from Ruth's Chris for 1/100 the cost

But magic is different

>mfw I didn't get into Legacy because I thought it'd be too expensive
>mfw I wanted to build manaless dredge but never checked how much it'd cost to build
Are you guys serious? Like, that costs less than buying a modern deck. What's the catch? Graveyard hate?

You auto-lose to Graffdigger's Cage and Leyline of the Void.
Extirpate, Relic of Progenitus, Deathrite Shaman, Thalia, Trinisphere and Tormod's Crypt can all be beaten with some sequencing.

Google how much those cards are played.

The only reason Dredge isn't more popular is people are deathly afraid of auto-losing ever. The only reason Manaless can assrape a whole tournament unopossed is because it's not popular.

Have fun but don't show your whole power level so we can all keep having fun.

What this guy is saying.
Also, people will hate your guts simply for playing Dredge and not spending a gorrilion bucks on Legacy.

If it's skill-intensive, then you should be able to win regardless of how much money you spent on the deck

If you need to drop thousands of dollars to be remotely viable, then it's not skill-intensive in the least

Huh, auto-lose? That sounds pretty lame, I suppose. Couldn't that be mitigated by throwing in, like, ten forests and a couple Nature's Claims maybe? I'm not that great at magic, but that should at least take care of the Cage, right? It wouldn't be properly MANALESS dredge but I feel like that would be preferable to a glass cannon. Still, if people aren't seeing me coming it might be worth getting anyway.
This would probably be my biggest problem if it's real. I like people to like me. Hmm.

>want to practice swordsmanship with a katana because it's the best weapon
>the way slicing is supposed to be done, most skill intensive, folded over 50,000 times
>don't want to dish out 250gp for a masterwork bastard sword