Cecilily discusses the financialisation of Pokemon cards as an investment vehicle.
It’s one thing that makes me pause in teaching my niece how to play, I don’t want her to get caught up in the abstraction of the cards as anything other than pieces of cardboard with funny pictures of animals
The flip side is that if you want to crack packs and make decks with what you get from packs it’s prohibively expensive because collectors. So it really only is cheap if you know the deck you want to build and go build it rather than playing with cards you get from packs.
This is true, but if you want to teach a kid to enjoy card games in a healthy way, then teaching them to bypass the predatory gacha bullshit because it sucks and is designed to devour all their money is the correct way to go.
at that point, just buy deck building board games?
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