I'm new to MTG. A friend infected me through his hyperfixation and after several days stuck down wiki rabbitholes I've started playing Arena and consuming ridiculous amounts of social media content about it.
An issue I see brought up over and over, equally frequently from content creators, their comment sections, and regular social media posts, is that the game is too expensive to play. "Standard moves too fast for decks to cost $200" etc.
I find this very confusing because... It's paper. It's ink on paper. It doesn't cost $200 dollars. It costs a one-time purchase of a printer and enough colored ink to print 7 A4 sheets of paper. There are entire websites set up that will generate a PDF f

