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Richard Garfield: $50 is Too Much
by Bill Stark | posted at 2010-02-15 22:30:00
tagged: WOTC, MTG, Magic, Wizards, Wizards of the Coast, Magic the Gathering, Richard Garfield, I Came to Game, IC2G
Think Tarmogoyf, Baneslayer Angel, and Jace, the Mind Sculptor are too expensive on the secondary market? Richard Garfield, the creator of Magic: The Gathering, may just agree with you. In an interview he gave the documentary crew behind "I Came 2 Game," a documentary about competitive Magic, he said "My intuition is that having $20 cards is about right...these $50 cards...for players, I don't see that as a good thing." Here's the clip:
It's a rare comment from Garfield on the subject, but comes at a time when specific in-print cards are seeing some of their highest prices ever.
For more information on I Came 2 Game, visit their official website. You can also check out their Youtube profile here, filled with trailers and sneak peeks for the documentary along with interviews of players like Patrick Chapin, Mike Long, Brian Kibler, Jon Finkel, and many, many more.
(Thanks to GatheringMagic on Twitter for the tip for this article.)
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Bill Stark is the founder and editor-in-chief of TheStarkingtonPost.com. He began playing Magic in 1995 after being introduced to the game by his brother. Since then he has competed at all levels of play including the JSS, Grand Prix, Nationals, and Pro Tour. In addition to his career as a pro, Bill began writing about the game early on for TheDojo.com, the first website dedicated to Magic. Since then he has written and edited for nearly every major Magic website on the web. In 2007 he began work as an official coverage reporter for Wizards of the Coast, flying to Grand Prixs, Nationals, and World Championships to record the events happening at each. He was also hired for six months as an R&D intern at Wizards where he worked on the redesign for DailyMTG.com as well as helping to develop multiple Magic sets. After leaving Wizards, he started TheStarkingtonPost.com to utilize his many contacts in the industry to provide a better information solution for fans of TCGs, gaming, and Magic: The Gathering.