Covid and inflation absolutely fucked the Magic community. Commander was ostensibly the casual deckbuilding format and now it's thousands+ for a "proper" deck. One of the many reasons I stopped collecting.
That was by design. EDH was fun community homebrew rules. The moment it got made "official," the writing was on the wall. It was going to eventually be the same shit show as everything else WotC/Hasbro touches. Not to say that covid and inflation didn't play a part.
Covid and inflation absolutely fucked the Magic community. Commander was ostensibly the casual deckbuilding format and now it's thousands+ for a "proper" deck. One of the many reasons I stopped collecting.
That was by design. EDH was fun community homebrew rules. The moment it got made "official," the writing was on the wall. It was going to eventually be the same shit show as everything else WotC/Hasbro touches. Not to say that covid and inflation didn't play a part.