Tell me you don't understand Rudy without telling me you don't understand Rudy.

My understanding of Rudy's position is that the tail should be allowed to wag the dog: rather than the secondary market existing to allow players to obtain the cards they need to build a deck given the limitations of Wizards' limited print run, blind packed distribution, Wizards should attempt to maximise secondary market profits to maximise their sales to fourth-party resellers at the expense of their sales to players. The reason I believe this is because of his explicit dislike of the "game pieces" faction (that Wizards should respond to undersupply of in-demand cards by reprinting them, increasing the player base, reducing the effects of external economics on competitive integrity and directly increasing their own sales to the players) and also the fact that he fell for MetaZoo, a game which sold itself on collector-focused gimmicks like a Reserve List but without the fundamentals to make it worth collecting.

Ah, there it is. Tell me you're a filthy commie without telling me you're a filthy commie.

The market is not the purpose of the market. Thinking people should treat shares like the partial ownership of a company and not just an up-market form of betting on greyhounds doesn't make me a communist.