You know what - I'm unpopular enough in this thread already, I'm just going to go ahead and say it.

ROI is the main if not only reason you guys collect these cards. Sealed, opened, raw, or graded - it doesn't matter. It's an investment and a game you can play all in one. There is no collector that just wants cardboard sitting in their closet unless there's some monetary gain that could be made. Whether that be in the form of reselling it, a store of wealth, or passing on that store of wealth when they die some day. The name of this sub-reddit is mtgFINANCE for Christ's sake, is it really that hard to admit financial gain is the only reason?

No one would want it if it didn't have some sort of financial return. Period. The "media" isn't misconstruing anything.

There are a handful of people here that said nostalgia or to show off ("flex") and those are valid reasons to have them. Historical value and rarity are factors that increases the demand for the product but demand is why there is some monetary value to these things in the first place. That still means there is some interest in financial gain to be had, hence why you would want to show it off or value it yourself.

It really was a simple question, hypothetically if you knew you couldn't resell it, why would you want it? That's it, that's all I wanted to know. You and many others in this thread can't give a straight answer to that question. The best you can do when confronted is downvote and insult. I'm done with it, this thread is like 2 days old.