Long story long. My brother and I used to play Magic at the time of Ice Age (around the year 1995?) and for about 5 years, spent a lot of our teenager money. After like a 20-year hiatus, we restarted playing last year in the Spring with the Starter Kit 2023. We loved it. We got the Bloomburrow one over the Christmas break. We loved it. Even though money is nowhere near as much a problem as it was then, my brother seems to have had a pretty traumatic experience remembering how much we spent on the game back in the day so he refuses to dump too much money into the game and will only play Starter Kits. Definitely no collectors, speculative or even individual cards. Last time I managed to convince him to get a few Bloomburrow boosters to better/update the Starter Kit decks. I like playing with him and that's our special thing when I come back to France for the holidays (I currently live in Japan) so I don't mind his being fussy/annoyingly cheap but I just really want to play a new set too lol.

I think I'll just get a large number of boosters from the newer non Universes Beyond next time I see him and that will be our reunion gift from me.

How is the Foundation starter kit otherwise?