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Considering the amount professional sports spends per player, yeah, it is. The average cost of a Legacy deck is $4000. And that's a one-time expense. After tha

by bena 5y ago

Considering the amount professional sports spends per player, yeah, it is. The average cost of a Legacy deck is $4000. And that's a one-time expense. After that, the on-going costs: sleeves, entry fees, travel, etc aren't horrible. But plenty of poor people play Magic. More poor people than affluent people. Plenty of people make poor financial decisions. Like buying boosters instead of singles to get cards for decks. Like trying to make playing Magic a career instead of anything else.

entropie 5y ago
Wizard is about to transition to more of an online competitive scene. I don't know how its compared to other games, but there is good money on the table and the promise that "everyone could win a tournament for the big money" (I think that's not true. MTG is way to much dependent on RNG). For like two years everyone is able to attend to events the client offers that can lead to an invitation to more events that eventually lead to tourniers where real money is on the table. https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Red_Bull_Untapped https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Red_Bull_Untapped
- bena 5y ago
  Magic's all time money leader is Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa (PVDDR). He is a hall of fame player who has been playing professionally for 19 years. He's won just over a million dollars in that time frame. That's the equivalent of making around $57k a year. They're doubling the prize purse for the Pro Tour this year. So, at best, someone could make $2 million with the same results over the same time frame. Red Bull Untapped had a prize purse of $200,000. That's $50,000 less than the old Pro Tour had. Not to mention, that's the entire purse. If you won an offline qualifier and the finals, you would have won $30k. For contrast, the NFL pays $75,000 to each player on the losing team in the Super Bowl. That's outside of their normal salary. That's money paid to the players by the league itself (from a pool of money collected from the member clubs). And playoff bonuses go all the way down. If you're a wild card team who loses in the wild card round, that's $37,500 per player. Being the 7th seed and getting bounced in the first game of the NFL playoffs pays better than winning the entire Red Bull series. And that's ignoring that the NFL playoff bonuses are pure extra. There is not "real money" there. It's at best amateur league.

by bena 5y ago

entropie 5y ago

Wizard is about to transition to more of an online competitive scene. I don't know how its compared to other games, but there is good money on the table and the promise that "everyone could win a tournament for the big money" (I think that's not true. MTG is way to much dependent on RNG). For like two years everyone is able to attend to events the client offers that can lead to an invitation to more events that eventually lead to tourniers where real money is on the table. https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Red_Bull_Untapped https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Red_Bull_Untapped

bena 5y ago
Magic's all time money leader is Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa (PVDDR). He is a hall of fame player who has been playing professionally for 19 years. He's won just over a million dollars in that time frame. That's the equivalent of making around $57k a year. They're doubling the prize purse for the Pro Tour this year. So, at best, someone could make $2 million with the same results over the same time frame. Red Bull Untapped had a prize purse of $200,000. That's $50,000 less than the old Pro Tour had. Not to mention, that's the entire purse. If you won an offline qualifier and the finals, you would have won $30k. For contrast, the NFL pays $75,000 to each player on the losing team in the Super Bowl. That's outside of their normal salary. That's money paid to the players by the league itself (from a pool of money collected from the member clubs). And playoff bonuses go all the way down. If you're a wild card team who loses in the wild card round, that's $37,500 per player. Being the 7th seed and getting bounced in the first game of the NFL playoffs pays better than winning the entire Red Bull series. And that's ignoring that the NFL playoff bonuses are pure extra. There is not "real money" there. It's at best amateur league.