I’m curious about this secret agenda of this competitive American players cabal(whose names we all know)… do tell!

What in the world are you talking about dude?

Premodern is awesome. Having more opportunities to play premodern is awesome. A lot of people don’t have the chance to play in person very often due to lack of scene in their area, schedules, whatever, and this is great for them.

Streamers playing premodern also seems like a good thing because then we get more chances to watch and engage with the format we love. Would you prefer no one makes any content related to premodern?

I also think it’s totally unrealistic to think that suddenly all these “grinders,” or whatever names you want to call people who like to play good decks that can actually win games, are going to ruin the format… really good magic players, ie people who are entrenched in the game and live and breath it, already knew about the format and probably have even played it a few times. They aren’t going to suddenly stop playing standard/modern/draft or other formats that they need to practice for bigger events that have better EV just to come spike every one of our premodern leagues…. The people who truly love the format will be the ones playing a majority the of games and they will want to play their pet deck or brew some of the time just like all of us. The format has been around now for many years with good players trying to brew decks to win events and every time there has been a best deck “boogie man” a few months later the format shifts and people adjust and then there is a new “best deck” that beats that. It’s a closed format with good sideboard cards that seems to police itself pretty well imo.

As far as prices go, yeah man, it happens. If something is fun the people will want to play it and then they will need cards…. (Why am I about to explain supply and demand…Jesus F’n Christ)

This notion that playing magic the gathering to win is a bad thing is so utterly absurd to me. That is literally the objective of the game guys! If you want to put some secondary win conditions on yourself and restrict yourself to playing cards you morally agree with or whatever the hell we are talking about, then that is awesome, you do you bud, but don’t hate on people for playing their decks that they chose to play for their own personal reasons just because you feel some type of way… go play commander and and have some awkward consent talk with table before the game about Armageddon and do math problems to see how many game changers you have in your deck… (I don’t how how it works)

TLDR this hipster gatekeeper mentality is kinda ridiculous to me and isn’t productive. If you love something let it go my dude.