Elon would probably be a mixed bag, but Rudy would be terrible.
Rudy's problem is that he only views Magic as a speculative market and is dismissive of the ecosystem that prevents the floor from falling out of that market. He's the guy who would kill the goose that lays the golden eggs, because he doesn't understand that his investment is dependent on the continued health of the game, and the continued health of the game is dependent on not going all in on the degenerate gamblers.
With Elon, I don't know how it would go. There's not much of a victory in saving the company if it means cutting the things that make it worth saving.
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.
Elon would probably be a mixed bag, but Rudy would be terrible.
Rudy's problem is that he only views Magic as a speculative market and is dismissive of the ecosystem that prevents the floor from falling out of that market. He's the guy who would kill the goose that lays the golden eggs, because he doesn't understand that his investment is dependent on the continued health of the game, and the continued health of the game is dependent on not going all in on the degenerate gamblers.
With Elon, I don't know how it would go. There's not much of a victory in saving the company if it means cutting the things that make it worth saving.
Tell me you don't understand Rudy without telling me you don't understand Rudy.
Ah, there it is. Tell me you're a filthy commie without telling me you're a filthy commie.
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.
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.