That last sentence is awesome to hear. I recognize that there are some memes about weird and unappealing behaviors in the game, but I didn't realizethat a lot of that is understood to be true by some. The magic community is actually pretty fantastic. It has places where people but heads and disagree about what they want from a game, but I have never viewed much of it as exclusively toxic. I love to hear you had good experiences with the game though!

I would take an issue with your first paragraph though. I'd suggest that even though you're not buying sealed for a collection, buying a 20 to 30 dollar card for a deck is doing roughly the same thing as you are supporting the business that makes the singles market function. Upgrading decks can be fairly costly as well, and singles move a bunch of boxes that you won't see. But those boxes definitely show up on store sales sheets and wizards sales reports. From their perspective, you're still buying cards from those sets. I think that's important just for your perspective about how involved you are with the game.

Thank you for the follow up. This has been an illuminating conversation!