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Trading System Discourages Community Outreach

I'm here to say the same thing that everyone else is: That the trading system is needlessly restrictive and expensive and convoluted. But most importantly, I'm disappointed in the idea that if I get extra cards that my friends don't have, I can't even easily give them my duplicates, because I would need to have 5 or more duplicates of something in order to trade it in the first place. That's just not feasible for anybody who's not spending hundreds of dollars on the game. And then if you are spending hundreds of dollars on the game... you probably don't need anything from your friends... who STILL have to throw away their own cards just to get your extras! So what really is a point of this training system? Who is this system even for???