pt i: what is magical
capitalism?
We’re used to the way Magic works. The cards
come from packs, we buy the individual cards, we build decks with those cards.
Or, we pay for the packs and draft with those. Easy.
Magic is like this because it’s always been
like this. We assume that Magic has
to be like this, that the game wouldn’t function any other way. But the reason
we assume this isn’t that people don’t think the rules system of Magic would
work if cards were available in a different way; it obviously still would. We
assume that Wizards of the Coast just wouldn’t be able to make the game anymore,
because the only reason Magic exists is to make them money.
