Sounds like a marketing scheme to me.
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Of course it is a marketing scheme. As long as they don’t sell it as a must do, I don’t really have a problem with it. Some people enjoy card collecting and if it keeps them engaged in the sport, more power…Sounds like a marketing scheme to me.