I Waste all My Fun Money On:

[Neo Emolga]

I have a friend into this and I am amazed at how expensive some of the cards are! I went to a prerelease today and played against some guy that had $200 and $140 cards. o_o Anyway, my friend has helped me make a couple of decks so we can play, but what we do is print out all the cards and play like that while fine tuning the deck. Once its perfect, then you can buy the cards and you only end up with the ones you want! (Personally I refuse to spend money on them so I just play with printed ones as I'm only playing with friends) :D

I find it crazy that the most expensive card in Magic the Gathering (Black Lotus in the Alpha set) is about $15,000. I really wish I got one when it was only a few hundred bucks by in 1995. But yeah, with a value like that, you wouldn't even want to play with it!

But yeah, I have a friend who prints proxy cards, which is helpful considering I ask for his help when it comes to playing with some of the more pricy cards. But yeah, 99% of my cards are legit. If I were to ever go to tournaments, it would be a quick and easy thing to just swap out the proxy cards for legal ones. I maybe only use two in each EDH Commander deck I have.

this reminds me of a neverending argument between me and one of my friends, he whines that i spend hundreds of dollars on virutal items, and i whine back that he's no better with spending hundreds of dollars on magic cards :p

True. I don't feel as guilty with Magic cards considering if I were to get tired of the game, it's possible to resell the cards and make back most of the money (or potentially make a profit depending on if the value went up enough).

I have also spent money on virtual fluff also. It's not a big deal, if you put it to good use one way or another, then it's not a waste.