*_WANTED:_*_ More affordable Yu-Gi-Oh cards._

Unfortunately it's a Konami America issue. The OCG all the cards are printed in a lower rarity, then you have a chance to pull a higher rarity. That's why OCG cards aren't legal in the TCG, because they don't want you to get the cheaper Japanese versions.

Even if the TCG just printed the same card in multiple rarities in one set like the OCG it wouldn't be as much of a problem.

No Yu-Gi-Oh card costs $100 when you don't play Yu-Gi-Oh 🙃

A deck should cost a person about 50 to 100$. Budget decks for kids or less fortunate people for around 30$ And print some ghost rare stuff for collectors.

But how are "pro-yugioh" """players""" supposed to gatekeep then and tell you you suck at the game if you don't spend $2k every 3 months to buy new broken archetype?

Totally agree. The worst part is that the OCG already does this right now, printing cards in lower and premiun rarities, and it just makes the game more afordable. I wish Konami would try to make the game affordable for everyone, I think having the lower rarities in sets would also help stores move product too. People would be more willing to open a box if you are likely to get 2 or so copies of the cards you need plus a chance of a super cool version of it.

My MTG group allows proxies and printing. we all still buy packs and products. but it allows us to not be limited in deck building and even customise our cards. its great fun. and thats what we play card games for, fun

It's so cool to hear from you that demand. I think konami should change their business model to acommodate a larger player base. It doesn't help putting all the staples and game-changing stuff restricted into the highest rarities as for that only shortens the player base and turns the second market into the only actual market

Not to mention the prizing at YCS events. If you're not only spending thousand(s) of dollars, testing for hours, having the talent and everything that comes into a top at an event... it's not worth the money alone

I love how the digimon tcg has alternate arts of the rarer cards and they end up being the expensive ones, but if just need a copy for a fairer price then there is the regular artwork version.

Hard agree. I've gotten to a point where I just refuse to play the game until the cards for a deck I want to make are all affordable via aggressive reprints like the recent collection set. If they just wind up totally unplayable even at a locals level by the time that happens, then I just ignore that specific deck and move on. It's gotten ridiculous. What I don't understand is that OCG has little checks and balances to even it out. Some really rare cards are given secondary lower rarities to make them more affordable. TCG doesn't do this. In fact, a lot of cards TCG knows damn well will be staples or very solid main deck considerations get obnoxious rarity bumps and short prints. Not exactly like people have oodlies of disposable income right now. If anything, it just encourages me to stay away from Konami product because you see how hostile the game is to a low spender right from that first experience trying to build your deck. They have to realize that this doesn't help them bring in new players.

I agree with the reprints should be done in almost every set. Just think about how many common Pot of Greeds and Change of Hearts we got back in teh day.

I would argue that reprints don’t work. At least, they don’t do enough. People should get to play with them BEFORE they get hit on a ban list or fall out of the meta. The only solution for that is to have them at multiple rarities in the core set. Otherwise it would need an immediate reprint and that would kill the value of the core set and screw people over

you ask me no card should cost $10. Cards should come in common rarity from the get go and let the whales and collectors fight over the high rarities.

What you are talking about is how it works in the OCG. Little Knight was a super, but also a secret and QCR. Secret rares over there are used as a rarity bump for lower rarity cards. WANTED was also a regular rare over in the OCG so...

I pulled a Secret S:P Little Knight the weekend of release. I get Konami needs reasons to get people to buy packs, but cards should never be that expensive

They should've learned from £20 magnamhuts that we'll still buy product for good super rares - they'd sell far more if the average pack had something you actually wanted in it, instead of having to hit one of the absurd cards to get the value out of the set

Very happy to see Paul talking about this. As someone who was very excited for the Diabelstar engine, I can’t afford to drop $400 for three spells and 3 diabelstar. It’s just not feasible for me. I love the idea of different rarities (that Pokemon example was great!) so I can get a “less blinged out version” of a deck I actually want to play. I can understand cards that are hard to get/ collectors pieces being worth a decent amount, but cards needed to just play a deck being $100 a pop? That blows my mind.

The most I have ever spent on a card was about $103 on a copy of the Magic card City of Traitors and just below that was $100 on a copy of Bayou. Those cards being on Magic's reserve list nearly guarantees no reprint unfortunately and brings up another rough topic that leans into why the casual Magic community is so lax about proxies now.

The different lower rarities solution sounds super viable for yugioh. Rarity wh0r3s will always do the most to get their secret rares anyway. It's not like konami will lose out on sales or anything. In fact, it might even increase sales.

The reason why these cards are worth that much is because the boxes themselves are expensive, so if you have to open, say, 2 boxes to get one copy of this card on average, then you will have to pay a fraction of that box price, in the case of really good cards, a rather large fraction.

Konami needs to copy Konami, ocg makes the rarity treatment similar to other games, just watch an unboxing of ocg and tcg agov AND man i feel sad (even for their chance of get ultimates in Main sets)

Locals and big tournaments should give the big cards out as prizes to incentivize people to show up Not super unrealistic Locals distribute the uncensored art versions of cards you get for spending X amount on product

They need to do a reprint set every 6 months to make meta relevant cards that are expensive more accessible to people. Once a year by the time a lot of the archetype cards get reprinted they have been power crept

You're not paying 100 bucks for a card. You are paying 100 bucks to avoid spending money on packs in the hope of getting that card.

You don’t even need to look to Pokémon for this example. The OCG does this with their sets and I:P has a super rare printing and is like $5, secret rare $25 and quarter century is like $100. I think it cards had lower rarity cards that are easier to access it could help change the mentality of just buy singles, which seems like it would help stores sell more product

Due to some personal issues i hadnt been to my locals in a year, i ran into one of the main players who even judged at our nationals. And my shock to find out, that everyone quit yugioh to play pokemon(and having fun) due to the prices just being too ridiculous for everyone to play top meta decks

Pricing has got really bad for me between Sinful and S:P. They're so vital to play competitively right now. My locals have a lot of really good players who go to YCSs and Regionals etc. It's becoming demoralising turning up when I'm facing decks that cost £500 that I simply can't afford to compete with. Honestly feels embarrassing that I can't afford those cards. I'm a lower skill level anyway let alone being unable to afford the cards to play at a competitive level. S:P is the most egregious to me. It is so unbelievably strong that it's a get out of jail free card for any deck. Literally paying £90 to have "the out" available at all times.

I like the idea of having lower rarities and collector rarities so people can make competitive decks even if they arent flashy. Those wanting to max rarity their deck CAN, but shouldn't be forced to.

Shouts-out to yall, man!!! Truly enjoy the content as a guy who's really just getting back into Yugioh... I need help 😫 and I often get it here

It's sadly in inherent problem of a TCGs. The fact that they are a collectors thing in one aspect, but then also have a competetive scene. These two just don't mix well. At least not in the way that Konami is treating it. Honestly the competetive side if YGO should be completely free. That's what you need for a true competition. If you need 500$+ decks to compete, it is quite literally pay to win. Sure playing that deck still takes skill, but somebody with a 50$ deck is will never be able to beat top decks even if they are technically a better player. (what ever that means)

I think the worst thing about Konami of America purposefully making these cards expensive is that they're leaving money on the table with their outdated business model. You can compare opening packs of cards to a claw machine/grabber machines. While claw machines in the West are universally laughed at as scams to rip you off while giving you very little or nothing, the Japanese use the business model of actually giving you actual good prizes after you spend x amount and still have no prize. Prize grabbers in Japan are thriving along with an arcade scene while everyone in the west still sees them as scams after decades. Konami's greed is literally losing them money in an age where yugioh popularity is booming.

I play two separate trading card games already, and even still Pokemon occasionally gets me to build a deck and go to locals for a few weeks to mess around with something due to the low barrier to entry. Most recently, it was a Dialga Vstar deck that cost me about $60 to build from scratch, and next up might be a Miraidon ex deck, since I'm a big fan of Raikou. It's straight up just a bad player experience to have competitive staples total up to $500 plus dollars before you even START building the actual archetype you're thinking of trying out. Even if you go, "Eh, but you can just slot in different engines and have SOME efficacy, even if it's not optimal," you can't un-know that the meta engine is the best way to go for the deck you chose to build, and every game loss that comes down to the cards that you know you're missing will build up just a bit more resentment toward the game's business practices. I shunted over to Cardfight Vanguard around 2013, but I've been tempted to look at Yu Gi Oh a few times in a similar way that the Pokemon TCG has gotten me, but every single time I've been priced out of any desire to try again.

i been saying for years now... every secret rare should also be printed as an ultra, collectors, and starlight rares.... there shouldnt be 1 printing of meta relevant cards AT ALL

Absolutely this. While Age of Overlord was an amazing set, getting competitive cards should not cost so flipping much. Konami would stand to sell more product to people who would want more of the cards being more readily available from packs instead of letting people just buy singles...no?

Having JUST learned about how the OCG prints stuff i'm left feeling super ripped off. Like the idea that a card game prints ALL cards at a common rarity and then has fancy versions of key cards is SUCH a lovely model. There is still money in the 1st and 2nd hand markets BUT it doesn't compromise the affordability and accessibility of the GAME itself.

I’m so glad you always have something to say. I value your words a lot and you always have good takes. Keep up the good work.

If you did a mass boycott of the cards you’d see Konami increase the printing so the price goes down. Unfortunately if you don’t have standards for what you will pay, then you will pay a lot

Speak with your wallets guys! Don't buy the product until Konami fixes this.

I agree I've been playing the Digimon tcg since it came out and I love that even most cards are less than 10$ even sec rare cards are like 20-30 max and the only expensive cards are the alt arts/ full arts which I think Yu-Gi-Oh has such good artists they could make beautiful full arts I would take a full art black rose over a starlight any day

An easy fix to this is to just make the secret rare chase cards also common in the set. They can even increase the secret rare pull rate if they wanted. That way no one can complain about prices since all important cards would be common. Then the collector market would also be happy because the rare rarities will still retain great value. What's funny us that if this were the case, then more people might actually be willing to buy product because you can actually get the cards you want by buying product. But because the cards you need are hard to pull it's just way more logical to just buy singles.

Absolutely agree! I'd even go one step further and say a playset of cards should not cost over $100.

It’s a piece of card stock for Christs sake. Konami is literally printing these for dimes

One of my highschool friends spent 150 USD to get the 3 noble night boxes plus the staples he bought separate! Michael Desousa man he was a madlad still great guy!

The issue with both yugioh and also magic the gathering, is the competitive formats need either 3 copies or 4 copies of a card to play with. When cards cost even $15-20 each thats a $60-$80 playset for just 1 card. Yugioh boxes are cheaper than mtg boxes but have less cards per pack; both games have power creep issues with yugioh being way worse. But if singles cost nothing and boxes are $100 or nor for mtg $140-$160, then no one will buy sealed product and then singles will stay high again. Its an issue from konami and wotc, and they need to find a cost basis that makes sense and a print run that is more accurate that what has been happening.

While I 100% agree with you, Konami are never gonna learn to care about their customers in that way. I don’t think they’ll ever do it

Some say excessive reprints could kill the market and the value of the cards but as Paul said, cards are meant to be played and if one of them gets cheaper and lose their value overtime due to reprints then so be it.

We seriously need the game to be more affordable, you shouldn't need to spend 200-300$ per deck to be viable

I’m glad you brought up pokemon tcg in this vid. There’s definitely still a lot of meta cards in the game that can get expensive since you can play 4 copies of said cards but I honestly think Konami could learn a lot from what Pokemon are doing with their rarity pyramid. Having different rarities of the same card in a set definitely keeps costs low for players and also gives collectors something worth collecting

This is a big issue in the TCG that the OCG has already solved by doing what was suggested, providing lower rarity versions of important cards for the competitive players and rarity bumps/alt arts for the collectors. And they can't hide their scummy practices anymore now that the internet allows news to carry over from region to region in a flash.

Im fine with cool collectors cards being 100 dollars or more (even if my broke ass can’t afford it), like starlight rares and stuff. But normal cards should never cost that much. Needing to drop 300 on a playset for just one of the 4-5 expensive must-have meta cards that’ll go out of season in a few months is wild

I feel like multiple rarities is something that would be amazing competitive or not I feel like cards like Horus and Diabellstar are interesting but you shouldn't pay an arm and a leg for cards that might be a small part of a deck. Not to mention $100 for just 1 copy of Seeker of sinful spoils is nuts makes it impossible if you wanted to play the lore pure or would be on a budget.

AGOV made me officially declare no more buying yugioh for me. I saw the card list, saw a good handful of cards that would have spiced up a few of my decks a little - nothing meta by any means, just slightly more functional at their non-meta goals - then I saw the prices. Hundreds of pounds just to put a fun new spin on my favourite deck, which by the way OCG players could get for a tenth of the cost - and which I could import from the other side of the world, including import duty, and still pay half the native cost. It's not just overpriced, it's an insult. I've been into Yugioh since GX, I've had a couple of dozen decks over the years, I've bought cards just for the sake of having them, I've designed my own custom cards and game modes, I've worked on the Yugioh minecraft mod... and despite all this I'm still not someone Konami wants as a customer, because Konami's target customers are people who will happily pay £80 for a single card.

MTG: 100 us$? Pump those numers up, those are rookie numbers.

I've been adamant about reprinting everything in common like they do in japan so that households of all incomes can enjoy a fun game. Start a petition please

You either sell a kidney and cash out a TON for new short printed secret rares for your meta deck on day 1 they get released or you wait for reprints and PRAY that konami doesn't put those same cards on the banlist or powercreeps them to hell(which they do ALL the time)...

As someone who poked their head back around the door when Master Duel came out, seeing the prices of bread-and-butter cards put paid to the notion of ever actually getting into the physical game again. I'm almost certain that, were there cheap or common versions of those cards included in Booster Packs, I'd've spent altogether too much money by now. I'm not a businessman or anything, there must be some reason they do this, but speaking for myself I ended up giving them less money.

They should just experiment with the next core set. Start introducing full art versions of cards, then make a common version and a super special full art one of a really desirable card. I am 100% sure it will sell like hotcakes like Age of Overlord is right now. Also "You should have gotten the card earlier when it was half the price" It's a card game, not a stock market.

I bought my playset at 150$ now the playsets 300$

Completely agree. Personally I don't care about rarity. If I had common prints I would be happy. I was so Happy when I first got the dark magician girl with probably the first reprint that came out I got for $10 with a booster pack in a sealed package. It was common but the joy of having it in my hand👌 can't beat that. The whole pint in my opinion is to simply enjoy the game.

All we need Konami to do is just copy the OCG model. There is no thinking involved. The OCG has a proven model that satisfies the company, players and collectors. OCG sets print chase cards in multiple rarities as we saw in our Rarity Collection this year. The print quality is also immensely superior to our cards. Because quality is good, and people can get chase meta cards in easily accessible low rarities, players buy a lot of boxes and company makes money. Collectors are also happy because they can pull high rarity chase cards with good print quality, and the high rarity cards are not that expensive because each box has at least one luxury rarity. The OCG still has Ghost rares and ultimate rares in core sets. Everyone is happy. There is no excuse for Konami to not follow that model.

As a magic player I pray that the YGO community fights against the secondary market apathy early - it's too late for us.

No card should cost more than 100 dllr... Except when i personally own 3... Lol.

100% agree. The ultimsystem from thenGX era needs to return. I dropped $60 on a copy of thrust preorder and now I’m sick at how expensive that card got.

It's a vicious cycle, to be frank. Konami hasn't supported the core and casual audiences in the West, just going for hardcore audience and so the majority of people buying product are hardcore players or sellers. As a result, sets are purchased almost exclusively for chase cards. Because sets are mainly purchased for chase cards, to turn a profit the chase cards need rarity bumps (remember the recent storeowners talking about stuff like Soulburning Volcano collecting dust in bargain bins not even a month out of its release?) If they don't do this, the product simply would not be selling enough to sustain the game. Because the strong cards need to be harder to get, the price goes up which makes players who could be the core audience get turned off from the high buy-in price to make even a rogue deck. Hence the cycle is reinforced. The rarity bumping and short printing is a bad option but for the current state it's probably the only practical move for Konami to make, financially speaking.

Another thing this reminds me of the sneaker game, where Nike would release a very hype shoe selling at $160 retail only for resellers to jack up the price by 3x.

yeah pricing is a big issue especially in mtg and yugioh. the fact that yugioh still has 3-4 different rarities of cards all of which are unique cards and the fact that a box has an extremely low amount of these makes it feel really bad when not only do you not pull the good secret/ghost card from your box but also realize that not only did you not pull it but now your almost guaranteed that you dont have a copy in the box depending on which rarity the card is. pokemon having the multiple rarities of the same card makes the game much more casual friendly and collector friendly as like you said you can go after the 60-100 dollar version of the card if your a collector but also just pickup an entire set for a couple dollars each for an actual deck is great.

Konami wants people to buy as many packs as possible to drive sales with stupid rarities. Players will spend absurd amounts to play the "best of the best." The problem is power creep and a lack of variety of decks. If you have a tier 0 format, the cards that are essential to those engines will be expensive as hell. If you have MORE varieties of decks, it drives the price of all cards down because you dont NEED those specific cards if you can play something else thats actually viable. For now I'm sticking to master duel. I would never pay 1500 for a deck that might get hit by ban list or power crept in a month or two just to repeat the cycle because thats absurd. I dont need to buy a new gaming PC every few months for a new game so the whole "hobbies are expensive" thing is BS. Equipment SHOULD last.

I always had the feeling that if someone says you can't do something or participate of something because you don't have money, even if it's a superfluous thing, that someone is not worthy of the privileges they have.

What's really wild is people will pay hundreds if not a thousand dollars for a Yu-Gi-Oh deck with all the extra deck and side board stuff and there's no cash prizes. Pokemon just upped their prizing and you win 10k for getting first at a regional. I stay away from Yu-Gi-Oh because it's expensive, complicated, and honestly bad prize support.

I'm perfectly fine with collector rarities having a higher price tag since they're meant for collectors (stuff like Starlights) but I think the main problem is when they decide to release a super powerful card like Little Knight or even the Diabellstar stuff but only make them available in a single higher rarity because then it just inflates the price even more of the card since they're just naturally rarer to pull. Like you said in the video, I feel like it'd be infinitely better if they kept the higher rarity versions of the cards but just made lower rarities in the same set so cards are more accessible

95% of people who rip Pokémon packs don’t play the game. So the game has a ton of low rarity cards that do the same thing that most people don’t want into the secondary market. Also Pokémon has been printing more meta cards either into battle league decks ie(mew vmax and Miraidon) or collection boxes ie Charizard ex. The barrier of entry into the tcg is much lower in price compared to others.

I think Konami should drop the total number of cards in a set to 70 cards and just print every card in every rarity. It encourages each player to pick up a box of product because on average they will pull a play set of each card. I’m not touching a box of AGOV but I did pick up an S:P on TCG player. But if I knew the odds were in my favor to purchase sealed product that’s exactly what I would do. And as there are 70 cards in any one rarity the blinged out versions of the cards would naturally cost more in singles.

I also feel like taking on pokemon's rarity system would be way more encouraging to buy sealed products because while you wont get the money card you will way more likely get playable versions of what you want while now it feels like why would I ever buy sealed when it's cheaper to just buy the secret rare instead of like 4 boxes to pull them

Don't know why cards cost so much.. it's not like players are being/getting Cash prizes for winning a YCS or Regional. It's not like players have huge global sponsorships with Nike/Adidas/Puma , etc

If adults cant afford to buy these cards for themselves, imagine how many children customers konami looses who rely on their parents to buy them cards so they can stand a fraction of a chance at a local tourney. The tcg's greed for instant profit will result in this game being dead in 10 years

Imo this is one of the very few valid criticisms towards the TCG they make the game way too expensive meanwhile in OCG you can get a competitive deck for less than half the price in the TCG

Price is the biggest reason my friends and I quit playing. Paid 20$ for a beelze when he released. Now that card is worth 0.18$ lol

Next video: ,,No magic card should cost 10 000$ please "

We need unlimited prints again not only first prints

I photocopied my one copy of Wanted to learn how to play rescue ace diabelle star deck. I won't buy any until it gets down to $20 bucks or so. Great video.

The funny thing is about trading is even if you have 100 dollars worth of cards but it someone doesn't even want those cards they might as well be worthless.

I mostly agree because there has always been that thing where u spend your 3oo for a playset and as soon as theu reprint it in the structure deck overnight your 300 becomes 50 bucks.

I hope your doing good homie seeing you have passion for this game for so many years is amazing. Stay safe stay healthy and stay happy homie 😁

The most I've spent on a card was $20 way back when Beelze was the hot new thing, and even that felt a little icky. I'd love a rarity collection every year, but the best solution to be able to have fun with a deck before it gets butchered by the banlist would be your multiple rarities solution

Basically, into this "YGO should be accessible" also goes a full automatic free online simulator of all the cards, that is official.

It would kill the game. The game needs collectors and players. Collectors dont care about a card that has 3 different rarity. It works in pokemon because they have very unique full art cards. Unless yugioh wants to change the way they make cards it will never work.

I think TCG should take a page out of OCG and offer multiple rarities of cards as they're released. I think starlight, ghost, and collector rares should be more expensive, as they're intended as collector pieces (first). A lot of expensive cards do end up getting reprinted anyway, but it takes a year or so (products like megatins and battle of legends) so they're just not as relevant as on release. Seems to me as it's designed this way to sell product first. (Also why are OCG box prices half the price of the same TCG counterparts, makes no sense)

Same goes for any TCG. The fact that essential game pieces can cost from hundreds to thousands of dollars is disgusting

As a someone who lives un south america this game is a total luxury. Think for a second that a Big Mac for lunch or whatever is in fact a luxury, now compare that to a 100 dollar card, absurd.

One competitive player said that "hobbies aren't necessarily cheap." That's the wrong way to think, because hobbies are optional. I've learned not to buy Yu-Gi-Oh cards or video games when they first come out because the prices are ridiculous.

It will never change it was like this in Lightsworn, Tele-dad and so on. As long as players keep buying, monami will keep smiling.

I remember pulling Behemoth the King of All Animals back in the day as an Ultimate Rare, before eventually finding a ghost rare Ancient Fairy Dragon, I'd never seen anything like them before compared to the other rarities that were available at the time, and it was a shame to see Konami just get rid of them from mainline booster boxes. We currently live in the age where Konami doesn't have a foot in selling individual cards, but imagine if they did: a single card worth $100 on the third-party market would likely be even higher from Konami's "Duelist Store," but without having to worry about restocking it if it sells out because they directly print those very cards themselves instead of having anyone to buy them from. This is why the Rarity Collection (despite its price) worked to a degree and why the Pokémon TCG introduced alternate artwork cards, having lots of important cards all reprinted in different rarities gives players a better chance of pulling the cards you need for your deck and the added chance to flaunt your harder to find versions - you can build a Pokémon deck with regular art cards and play just fine, while the full-art, illustration rare and secret rare versions are literally just the exact same cards that are just more difficult to find, so it's something you can flaunt your luck/money with, but everyone has the same chance of trying to pull one from a booster pack.

I paid $180 for a Beautiful Headhuntress a couple of months ago. It never got a reprint.

Few things: 1- Don't adopt the GX model as it was, the secrets were just as hard to get and did not come in Ultimate, the ideal model would be a mix of Battles Pack and Rarity collection, where EVERY card was a common and you got a starfoil of any card of the set in every pack, mix that with Rarity Collection giving us all the rarities and make the cooler ones harder to pull, but you can ALWAYS play the commons. 2 - Since we're probably not doing option 1 any time soon, I think the easiest solution for main sets is select the rarities in a different way, put the cards you need multiples of at a lower rarity and the 1-ofs at higher, so the Sinful Spoils package would look like this: WANTED at super, Diabellstar at ultra (since you use 1 to 3), Original at secret. We need more value at the super rare spots, those make sets super valuable since even single packs are worth buying, Darkwing Blast was kinda like this with most secrets being 1-ofs for their intended decks and having high value supers and a few important ultras. 3 - At the end of the day, every hobby has its cost, Yugioh should definitely not be this expensive, but since the game was based on a series where special cards were super rare and came with pride of ownership, the actual game mirrors that maybe a bit more than it should, players that regularly play at tournaments might just feel the weight of not being able to responsibly afford all the important cards (I know I do), but for a lot of casual players which are a big part of the game, having that one rare card that none of your friends have and won't go out of their way to afford is like having the one copy of Blue Eyes when there's only 3 in the world, it's kinda dumb but I remember my school days feeling that.

Instead of printing 1K shitty cards that do nothing or "joke" cards, they should just print 100 cards in different rarities. Look at Master Duel making 130 Gorillion dollars out of Whales alone with decks worth $10K+ just so they're all Royal Finish. Imagine the ammount of new players you could get. I would play TCG if I didn't need to sell a Kidney just to afford a Competitive Deck

With the banlist being whenever konami feels like it instead of set 6 month intervals like they used to, im not investing 1k+ to play again when my investment might be worth 5$ tomorrow because konami feels like it.

Proxying is fun, I do it all the time; in fact I have made 6 decks from proxies: 2 decks completely from scratch, a Pippa deck and a Yu Gi Oh Variant of the Necron Commander deck for M:tG. The most expensive part of the proxying has been the Dark Magician Girl sleeves.

(pulling an expensive card) Everyone: OOOMMMGGGGG :D Paul:....lets talk about this