I really appreciate your analysis on this as this is a conversation that I've been having with people recently. I'm glad that there are more people out there talking about the inherent risk of the stock market, as that specifically is the thing that I think a lot of people aren't relating to Magic. This game has such a strong resemblance to the stock market, where the best cards get artificially inflated in value so the whales can flaunt their decks. Which is fine in and of itself, but the problem that I have with it is that people are really making a big argument of the recent happenings that it's not fair to the players who have all this money put into those cards and how will they ever recover??????

Whenever you buy something in this way, where its value is tied to what other people tell you it should cost, you are accepting the risk that when people change their minds (or have their minds changed for them) you may lose all your money. Whether you know it or not, and that can be hard. This is what happened, and while yes they could have given notice, they don't have to just in the same way the stock market doesn't have to let you know in advance. This isn't the place to talk about my feelings about how it all went down as they are quite mixed, but I do want to show appreciation for all the work you put into having this all laid out in one nice spot for me to link people who are raging that their 20 cent card is worth 20 cents again.

But I would also really like to see your thoughts on how these two topics relate together, again I know this isn't necessarily the spot for it but maybe in a future post would you talk about the controversy around the watch list is this specific set of banning? Is it Wizards' responsibility to look out for their players? Or will this now be more for the players to take more of the responsibility onto themselves knowing that their may be future bans without warning on crazy expensive cards?