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What is your "inexpensive" hobby that turned out to be expensive/ you gradually invested lots of money into? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by plactagonic@sopuli.xyz to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Edit: so it turns out that every hobby can be expensive if you do it long enough.

Also I love how you talk about your hobby as some addicts.

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[-] daanzel@lemm.ee 28 points 10 months ago

Magic the Gathering..

[-] plactagonic@sopuli.xyz 9 points 10 months ago

Few years ago we found few old decks in our summer camp shared game box.

Someone looked at them said something like I think we could sell them for few hundred bucks and then put the rubber band on and tossed them back.

[-] ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

I started playing MTG when ice age came out. Sold all my cards back in 2018 for $13k. Most of that was from having all the dual lands and fetch lands. Also had an original foil tarmagoyf

[-] astanix@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Who ever told you it would be inexpensive?? LOL

[-] daanzel@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

In defense of the ~8 year old me, who had no clue how to play the game and just liked looking at the fancy cards, no one told me anything :) Also, that was around the time Urza's Saga released so it really was wayyy less expensive at that time.

Man, if I knew then what I know now..

[-] Templa@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months ago

More specifically commander. I have more than 10 decks and I rather not talk how much they cost altogether.

[-] tmyakal@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

After WotC sold their own official proxies in those anniversary packs, I gave up on official prints. Now every deck costs me $22 plus shipping.

[-] Templa@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago

Are you using MPC? We also started doing that, but all those decks are from many years of building.

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