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> The deflation will depend on how many whales to f2p players there will be in the game.

No it won't. Thats the beauty of a deflationary system, it will deflate regardless of the cash input.

>But I dont thing valve will allow people to 'go infinite' in this game based on their matchmaking mechanic. Experienced players will be matched to experienced players.

I think you'll get a few people managing it anyway. Going infinite in mtgo was about 25% maintaining a solid winrate in draft, and 75% understanding how to effectively play the deflationary market. Basically, the better your winrate, the stronger an edge you had on the secondary market. It's not a matter of Valve allowing people to go infinite:

1. Valve gets a cut on every transaction, so they win no matter what, they don't care if you've gone infinite and are remaining within their market ecosystem because in a deflationary model they are profiting off the ecosystems activity rather than discrete purchases.
   
   
2. Valve can't actually stop anyone from going infinite. Again, it's mostly the market, and if you are aiming to go infinite, you probably aren't going to buy boosters anyway. As long as they keep tickets at a fixed cost the rise of an internal token economy is inevitable, and honestly, it's pretty clear they WANT that to happen.
   
   >this will slow down the deflation as if I consider 50-50 odds , going to 3 wins would be an exception.
   
   It's impossible to determine the speed of deflation but I would be surprised if it took more than 2-3 months, matchmaking isn't going to have much impact, as regardless of who wins or loses you get the same number of cards going into circulation, and the relatively flat rarity curve in this game is going to be a massive accelerant.
   MTGO hit full deflation inside of 12 months, and it only took that long because of the insane rarity their foil/mythic rarities introduced and because they did it entirely on accident.
   
   >So in expectation people would be losing money in the draft without cards entering in circulation.
   
   The additional draft cost is to compensate for the prizepacks entering the economy. Money is still being paid for those cards, it's just you paying for someone elses cards... unless you win, then it's someone else paying for your cards.
   The phantom draft complicates the hell out of the optics on this, but it's still adhering to a deflationary economic practice.
   
   If you are looking for more detail on the subject I can suggest a couple of books.:
   https://www.amazon.com/Deflation-What-Happens-When-Prices/dp/0060576456
   This is a good guideline for the sort of market behaviors to expect in the early months.
   
   https://www.amazon.com/Inflation-Stagflation-Relative-Imperfect-Information/dp/0521070848
   This one will be a bit dense if you aren't familiar with the finance, but stagflation is really the only other viable market state for the economy they are creating, and it isn't something that gets a lot of coverage in traditional finance circles. Artifacts economy will likely see alternation between stagflation and deflation with brief inflationary spiking whenever an expansion, re-launch, or marketing push brings in new players.
   
   I realize my excitement about this game as a brilliant participatory experiment in digital economics may be biasing me a little bit, but I don't think people are taking the time to understand whats really going on here... This is going to be an incredibly cheap game to play...

CPU/GPU Combo, AMD APU Ryzen 2400g - $160.

16GB RAM, TridentZ RGB. - $165. It's important not to skimp on cheap RAM, the APU needs fast dual channel ram to be able to process the graphics as it shares memory lanes with the system memory, as all APUs do. You could go with 8GB and be fine though, just buy a 2x4GB kit for dual channel support and you'll save $80. Try to clock the RAM to at least 3200MHZ in the BIOS to get the most out of the APU or buy ram that comes at that speed.

240GB SSD. -$40. I prefer a smaller capacity but fast and cheap SSD over a larger hard drive, keep in mind the case only holds one 2.5" drive and one extra if you buy a hard drive caddy for the optical drive slot in the case.

Motherboard, has WIFI and Bluetooth built in. - $110. Solid board, decent VRM, great reviews. If you build in my small case, you gotta get an ITX size motherboard, nothing else will fit.


10.1" Monitor. - $110. See this comment for my thoughts on this one. It's the best price to performance portable USB powered monitor I could find. Don't buy the 7" one, it has half the resolution.

The In-Win ITX PC case. - $70. Comes with a 150w power supply, but does not have a GPU slot, hence the AMD APU. Very small, 3 x 8.9 x 7.6 inches.

1. Starter Kit
   
2. See above - please research before saying I'm "literally making stuff up." I'm literally not.
   
3. Like I said, equal rarity will have different costs due to power and scarcity - players are paying for both. There are $1 rares and $100 rares.
   
4. MTG is the same - Starter Deck

You mean like these?

5 keys for 5 dollars - doesn't get cheaper

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Hi, would this tablet run artifact in it? (lets say I installed it in a SD card) cos it only has 32 gb storage

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