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"Many Magic: The Gathering players ask the question…" Don't you ever get tired of mocking the Professor of Tolarian Community College with that opening? The answer is no, we don't. Even though we love the Professor, and this post is partly inspired by his YouTube channel's content, he's just irresistible to mimic. Not to mention, if he were here reading this, he would probably disagree with the majority of what we're going to be saying here. The Professor, spoiler alert, usually poops on Wizards of the Coast's boxed products. He tends to have a pessimistic view of boxed value products and has the annoying habit of counting every penny of literal card resale value as if that was the only metric of concern to players. Pro players will also tell you: NEVER buy the sealed product no matter what, just buy singles from second-parties. If you're a tournament-playing spike, this article is likely not for you - not that you'd be grubbing over here in the backwoods of Uncle Petey's territory…

So it's Penguin Pete here, your semi-faithful fan of the long-running collectible trading card game Magic: The Gathering, with some good news and some bad news. In fact, both good and bad news are distributed in several discrete bundles, so I'll get around to parceling them out longways here. bad news: COVID-19 killed paper MTG good news: Wizards made MTG Arena to take up the slack bad news: Wizards designed the game good news: But this time they had Hearthstone to copy bad news: They copied Hearthstone good news: At least this time they copied a decent example so it's just barely playable First, let's recap How We Got To This Point in Magic: The Gathering (MTG) history. When MTG first came out in the early '90s, it was going around in my nerdiest friend circles until I had to try it. And I had to say, it was an innovative game. The thrust was that it encoded a hermetic system of magic into cards. Some cards were land cards that could represent the mystical currency "mana," while…

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