If you can afford them, pay to win games can be fun. Games are more fun when the players are invested. The alternative "play thousands of hours to win" favors c

If you can afford them, pay to win games can be fun. Games are more fun when the players are invested. The alternative "play thousands of hours to win" favors children and the unemployed and is unfair in its own way. Having a high end mtg deck is like having a membership at a private golf club, it gives you access to other players who also are willing to invest good money into the game and take it seriously. My main modern deck is something like $500 and in theory I could sell it and get some of that back down the road. I couldn't imagine shuffling a deck worth 100k+ though.