Comment Magic card analogy (Score 1) 178
A sibling post mentioned Beanie Babies and Magic cards.
The volatility there is in extremely powerful old cards printed in very small quantities (at least tiny amounts compared to the current playerbase)
WotC won't reprint those because of a promise not to after an old wave of reprints crashed prices but this causes its own problems.
The last several years of new cards hasn't been so crazy.
Playing the game isn't exactly intrinsic value but it's more than crypto or Beanie Babies have