> This always struck me as moronic. I always thought that the REAL way to fix that would have been to do away with the artificial scarcity (the rarity system) that drove up the price of certain cards. But instead Wizards just brought in a ton of other lame ideas that Darien mentioned, and tournaments stopped being fun.

The trick with that is that, in addition to the player market, there is also a sizable collector maket that would be alienated if certain cards aren't collectable.