I have a friend who used to nag us to play MtG with him so that he could crush us with his hand-picked Rakdos deck, on which he spent a decent amount of cash.

I have a friend who used to nag us to play MtG with him so that he could crush us with his hand-picked Rakdos deck, on which he spent a decent amount of cash. META takes all the fun out of any game, but it's especially bad in MtG in my view.