Okay so we all play this game, right, but let’s set all that
“game” shit aside for a second and focus on the real question: how can I make
Real Cash Money off of intolerable nerds with too much of their parents money. Remember,
the bank takes $20 bills even if they smell like a Five Guys Fart Burrito. That’s
where I come in: I’m here to tell YOU what YOU need to focus on with this
*makes a shitload of air quotes* Trading Card Game.
1. Creepy Exploitative Coach of Small Children
Basically you’d convince a bunch of parents and the like to
get you to “teach” their kid Magic: the Gathering, and that would involve
berating them constantly and make their entire life revolve around Magic: the
Gathering like it does for any “true” pro player. Hopefully, we get to a point
where if you haven’t been playing since you were in Necrotic Ooze-filled
diapers, the game will be totally inaccessible to you since you have absolutely
no skill and probably do things like play “other games” in your spare time,
scrubbo. But don’t worry if you can’t actually “play Magic” or “teach Magic” or
“interact with children,” because that won’t be your job at all! You just get
them to play it nonstop, make sure they sign a binding contract that entitles
you to a huge chunk of their lifetime earnings, and have no social contacts
outside of you so they don’t know that you’re actually awful in every
conceivable way!
2. Screaming Head
We already have a ton of people that will vehemently give
their overly-sensational kneejerk reactions on
a website, but do you really expect people to read??? Read words??? In 2013???
Please. This is the Information Age, and information should be delivered VERY
LOUDLY. What Magic needs is the equivalent of ESPN, where people can yell at
each other about whether a certain player is “elite” and give absolutely no
useful content or context about anything so that casual observers understand
that Magic is a thing that people care very, very deeply about. Let’s face
facts, having people berate each other for hours will be way more interesting
than goddamn Eggs matches.
3. Payday Loan Service Specifically for Magic
Players
When smart people look at a community like Magic pros who
travel constantly on a limited budget and have an unreliable source of income,
you know what they really see? Profit. Like, I’m just spitballing ideas here,
but if payday loan companies can blatantly market themselves to minority groups
and low-income people living paycheck to paycheck, why can’t you do the same
but like instead of “500% annual interest” it’s like a “Tarmogoyf Loan” because
if you don’t constantly check how big it is you’ll probably just die. Look,
these are just ideas.
4. Magic Pro Groupie
Self-explanatory.
5. Motivational Speakers
Basically they don’t like help you get better or entertain
you or act worthwhile in any way, they just remind you that “hey! You’re not
wasting your life away at all, you’re doing something really useful by learning
to play Magic! It could even, like, lead you to playing more Magic and we know
how great that is!” You see, Magic players oftentimes will feel weird
guilt-esque feelings like hey maybe I should be having sex instead. But no. No
that is bad. So just tell them like “no you should not be having sex, also you
look great. $100 please.” This idea is pretty much Travis Woo but for money.
6. Inside Trader
Okay have you ever seen the salaries that Wizards people
make? Ahahaha they suck so bad. They get all these applicants that are all “hello
I am competent professional that will design good client for Magic Online
Digital Objects, please pay me a rate that is competitive with what I could be
making at a similar non-game-related position” and Wizards be all “haha nerp”
because some guy’s resume said that “like oh my god dudes I love Magic so
much!!! Magic for teh epic winzorz!!! I looked at HTML source code once” but
they only have to pay THAT dude like $30k. So this is why it’s so important for
us to make Real Money off Magic: no one other than the executives at Hasbro is
doing that at the moment. Here’s where the real hotness comes in, though: bribery.
Yeah son. So you can be all “hey why don’t you tell me what cards will be the
best ones two years from now” and they’ll be all “nope” and you’ll be all “I’ll
give you $10” and they’ll be like “oh well then sure,” and they give you a list
of cards but they actually didn’t playtest enough to find out what would be
good. I might not have thought this one through.
7. Go To Magic Tournaments and Steal People’s Bags
This is undoubtedly the best way to make money off Magic.
jesse confirmed for master thief
ReplyDelete"if you don’t constantly check how big it is you’ll probably just die" AHAHAHAHAHA! I live in an area with a ton of those payday loan places all over, and yeah, they just really are that exploitative as far as I can tell while maintaining a 50-yard radius. Also, I think your description of the Wizards hiring process is probably spot-on.
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