Is there anything more pathetic in this hobby than the trading card game thief?
Like pokemon and MTG cards are always being stolen and fought over.
Like the troons playing warhammer and D&D are more human

Hasbro just banned their entire standard metagame to force people to play with 100 dollar Final Fantasy cards.
You can tell me that isn't stealing from your customers, but we all know it is.

>>95993381 (OP)
The whales who pay for this cardboard shit instead of just using an online deck-builder.

>>95993381 (OP)
People who make [brand] their entire identity, to the point where they get personally offended if anyone else criticizes [brand]. Most of the time they don't even play whatever game is associated with [brand] because they're un-fucking-bearable shitstains of human being who are thoroughly unpleasant to be around, and thus are never invited to anyone else's games despite all the shilling they do for [brand].

>>95993381 (OP)
Better question:
Why does anyone play magic?
It costs an assload for a bunch of paper cards, at least wargaming gives you great sculpts you can make your own with the hobbying aspect. A model has way more value as you PUT value into it by making it your vision and tell a story.

The system demands you buy like crazy for the original loot boxes, any other game you at least know what they are buying when buy it

Those cards go out of style with rotations, and if you play in formats that allow for old cards, the meta breaks easily. Again wargamers in contrast, treasure their old models as a badge of pride and age. Even an out of print model can be used as a proxy or just sit on a display case

The player base is often unsavory. This is also often true in wargames, but a wargames hobbyist can totally ignore this part since to many the game is just a minigame to show off your models.
Or the cards are just banned because suspected racisms, even ones that don't make any sense like devils throwing rocks.

Not to mention that the people who make these games actively hate you if you were born a white straight male, and don't want to wear a dress.

What I am saying is, don't buy magic cards. Just print your own from the rules that come out and play with your mates if you do like the gameplay. Or just play Digimon cuz it has better waifus

>>95993433
You think telling someone to stop doing something will stop them from enjoying it? Have someone ever shame you into stop doing a hobby you like?

>>95993558
No. I'm not trying to stop them. The worst thing about mtg is that it is fun. This lets the companies rape the player base.

Really I'm trying to stop more people from getting raped

>>95993570
Most people play with
a) cards they already own
b) a cube
c) proxies
You really shouldn't worry, the only people buying are collectors, people engaging on competitive play, new players that want to test it (nothing you say will stop them unless you give them a similar game with a thriving local playerbase) and the strange ones collecting because of the theme of the set (like FF fans who just want to own the cards)

>>95993433
It's the ultimate midwit game
>started as a super nerdy game, nerds mapped out all the optimization and meta early one
>nerds leave, midwits (which troons tend to be) enter
>have all these epic combo guides that just apply to new cards too
>midwits feels super smart for looking up an epic combo on reddit and watching it happen
The same people infest warhammer too, it's a cancer. An entire genre turned into hitting the same dopamine hits as a mobile game

>>95993381 (OP)
Thief as in stealing from other players/kids/Local Game Stores? Cringe and horrible.
Thief as in steal from Walmart or Target or some other big box chain? Based, literally a victimless crime.

>>95993825
Any kid who's spending money on this overpriced carboard deserves to have it stolen, and the parents should be ashamed of what a horrible job they've done raising the kid.

>>95993588
>reddit
>troons
rent free

>>95993859
>Noooo I was never retarded as a kid and I never had any single retarded hobby!!11

>>95994511
My parents kept me from wasting my money on worthless pieces of cardboard and taught me how to save for things I would actually need in life.

>>95993381 (OP)
>If you own no bitcoins, lower your tone.

>>95994526
>"...And now I browse /tg/ and stalks threads like this"

>>95994550
if he's on /tg/ he's definitely wasting his money on something superflous

>>95993890
It's a real issue though. The Reddit part is a bit schizophrenic in how it's applied especially on /tg/ but it basically uses one website as a case study in how anything that gets popular on the internet is victimised by that very popularity. The troons being the most aesthetically offputting, creepy, amoral symptom of the wider disease.

>>95993433
I used to like the art, but it's been pretty shit for a while now. I picked MtG back up right when Bloomburrow launched and I'm probably going to drop it again once set rotation kills it.

>>95993381 (OP)
I would find it so fucking funny if someone stole something from me because there's like a 90% chance they're just stealing a proxy if it's worth more than $20.

Is this even a problem with adults? When I was a kid, cards got stolen or ripped in school. One time this teenager told me with a huge grin on his face that he just found a Yu-Gi-Oh deck in a random backpack and burned it with his lighter. But I never heard about any of that with grown-ups.

>>95997101
It can be a problem with black people but that's about it.

>>95993588
My gf is trans and only plays draft and makes thousands a year in prizes why are you so mad at trannies lol theyre better at mtg than you

>>95993381 (OP)
>Is there anything more pathetic in this hobby than the trading card game thief?
Yes,

>>95997106
Found the token terrified white boy coward of the thread.

>>95997101
every lgs I've been too had issues with people breaking in and/or swiping magic cards or pokemon

>>95997217
Some shitheads drove a fuckin truck through my lgs's side door in the middle of the night to steal cards. Those motherfuckers need their nuts hammered to a 2×4

>>95997205
I'm brown tho.

>>95993433
I mean the same applies to the standard miniatures of 40k, it's all clone pose shit and the vast majority of the minority who actually paint just do exactly what they see on the box.

You can customize MtG too if you like, back before I dropped it in 2018 because the tranny shit and selling out were visible on the horizon I ordered a custom EDH deck from makelayingcards, I went and did original border version of every card in the deck with the art of my choosing mixed with the flavour text of my choosing.

>>95993588
Netdecing killed any creativity in this game. And the removal of froce org killed the fun in 40k, because everyone runs skew lists

>>95993433
>A model has way more value as you PUT value into it by making it your vision and tell a story.

What an absolute omegalul-tier cope.

>>95997359
>>95997305
>unironically thinking that buying specific pictures is the same as the freedom of kitbashing/sculpting and painting a mini.
MTG players are the summit of mount midwit

>>95993381 (OP)
It’s probably more pathetic to use forced lingo like troons but who knows

>>95999203
>>95997126
>>95993890
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>>95999190
As has already been pointed out, if you're buying GW product, you're no different.
But anon also didn't specify that he was using stock MtG art, he may have done a full deck of anime babes or w/e

>>95999190
>custom card frame
>custom card art
>RAW card stats
vs.
>custom model
>custom paint scheme
>RAW model stats
It's exactly the same thing.

>>95999233
No need to post a picture of yourself.

>>95993433
Most 40k players don't paint their models though.

>>95997126
bf

>thread attacking people stealing cards
>troons are all over it defending the act and the game
Poetry

>>95993381 (OP)
fuck man. it rustles my jimmies. not just on purpose theft, but also just accidental theft because fags are love playing steal cards from your deck tribal. wotc are such fags for making that a thing. playing other people’s cards is low iq deck building. it doesn’t even have to be steal tribal. troons love running random insurgence or tutor someone else’s deck. I stopped bringing good decks to fnm. If you’re not playing a precon they choose your deck and slobber through every fucking foil. you can only have real games with friends.

>>95993381 (OP)
>>95997126
>>95997305
>>95993588
>>95993890
>>95995426
>>95999233
>>96003178
>>96004320
based tranny obsessers

>>96007593
>based on what?

>>96007593
One of those posts has nothing to do with trannies.

>>96008496
Wrong you obsessed bitch

>>96009854
Pure projection, also 60/40 odds of being ESL, possibly just american "education" though.

>>95993381 (OP)
please delete the op image

>>95993381 (OP)
i can only think of one
>being OP

>>95993825
Theoretically I agree but in practice being the kind of person who regularly shoplifts as an adult is going to fuck you in the long run. Its not something people tend to do when they're thriving either materially or psychologically.

>>95997126
>claims male with rotpocket installed and injecting hormones is “female”
>claims “gf” makes thousands in prize money from shitty card game (probably because he has the time to obsess over it due to his chronic unemployment)
>”heheheheh, ‘she’s’ better than you NERD, nothin personel KID”

Truly chasers are retarded, good job having a bf with a mutilated dick being good at a children’s card game I guess.

>>96016837
>>95993825
This is purely thief cope
The criminal mind simply looks for opportunities to get away with shit, everything else is just rationalization

>>95993433
>It costs an assload for a bunch of paper cards, at least wargaming gives you great sculpts you can make your own with the hobbying aspect. A model has way more value as you PUT value into it by making it your vision and tell a story.
I bulit a beginner's cube for around $20, including sleeves and packgaing.
You can make your own formats and no one will stop you

If someone cares/wants

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>>96017409
basically you and your opponent pick two colors, then the first person can add colorless card to their deck, then the second etc. It's basically prebulit constructed 2 color deck

>>95993433
casual players don't have archaic rulings

>>95993433
>at least wargaming gives you great sculpts you can make your own with the hobbying aspect. A model has way more value as you PUT value into it by making it your vision and tell a story.
Too much effort, corrent consumers want instant gratification, putting effort into something is too much to ask.

>>95993381 (OP)
Giving money to WotC.