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due to budget reasons I have decided that I will only play magic either in paper or on MTGO, but not both - I don't have the money to justify buying a digital copy of a deck and the real one. That said, A big part of magic for me is the community - talking to people between rounds, chatting with my opponent, trading cards, which is something I never really got to do on MTGO. Similarly, I like to collect cards, and while a digital collection isn't something I'm inherently opposed to, the fact that someone other than myself (namely, WotC) controls that collection to an extent, and could cause me to lose it all with the press of a button(just about) is a problem for me.
For those who will think I'm just being paranoid, the relevant bit from the MTGO EULA:
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9. Restrictions. The Game, Game Service, Software and any Game related products or services are made available solely for use by Accounts holders according to the terms of this License. Any use, reproduction or redistribution of the Game, Game Service, Software or Game related products or services (including without limitation, Digital Objects) not expressly authorized by this License is expressly prohibited and may result in severe civil and criminal penalties. You are strictly prohibited from engaging in, or assisting others to engage in, conduct that would damage or impair the property of Wizards including, without limitation, the following: (a) copying, distributing, transmitting, displaying, performing, framing, linking, hosting, caching, reproducing, publishing, licensing, or creating derivative works from any information, software, products or services obtained from the Game, Game Service or Software; (b) modifying, reverse engineering, disassembling or decompiling the Game, Game Service or Software except to the extent that this restriction is expressly prohibited by applicable law; (c) using intellectual property contained in the Game, Game Service or the Software to create derivates or to provide any other means through which others may play the Game such as through server emulators; (d) taking actions that impose an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on Wizards’ network infrastructure or that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair any of Wizards’ websites or other services; (e) interfering with any other party’s use and enjoyment of the Game, Game Service and/or Software (including cheating) and any Wizards’ websites or services; and (f) attempting to gain unauthorized access to third party Accounts, the Game, the Game Service or Software via any means.
Wizards does not recognize any purported transfers or sales of Digital Objects, event tickets or other virtual assets outside of the Software. Accordingly, you are strictly prohibited from selling, gifting (except as permitted herein) or exchanging Digital Objects, event tickets or other virtual Game items for currency or other value outside of the Game.
Moreover, Wizards does not recognize or sanction player created events in the Game Service and is not liable for any issues that may occur during such an event including, without limitation, entry requirements, match disputes and arbitration, or prize fulfillment.
IN ADDITION TO ANY OTHER RIGHTS AND REMEDIES AVAILABLE TO WIZARDS, IF WIZARDS BELIEVES YOU HAVE, OR WILL ENGAGE IN ANY OF THE ABOVE CONDUCT IN THIS SECTION 9, IT MAY, IN ITS SOLE DISCRETION AND WITHOUT NOTICE, TERMINATE YOUR ACCESS TO THE GAME AND GAME SERVICES, AND SUSPEND OR DEACTIVATE YOUR ACCOUNTS WITH NO LIABILITY TO IT RELATING THERETO.
Wizards does not recognize any purported transfers or sales of Digital Objects, event tickets or other virtual assets outside of the Software. Accordingly, you are strictly prohibited from selling, gifting (except as permitted herein) or exchanging Digital Objects, event tickets or other virtual Game items for currency or other value outside of the Game.
Moreover, Wizards does not recognize or sanction player created events in the Game Service and is not liable for any issues that may occur during such an event including, without limitation, entry requirements, match disputes and arbitration, or prize fulfillment.
IN ADDITION TO ANY OTHER RIGHTS AND REMEDIES AVAILABLE TO WIZARDS, IF WIZARDS BELIEVES YOU HAVE, OR WILL ENGAGE IN ANY OF THE ABOVE CONDUCT IN THIS SECTION 9, IT MAY, IN ITS SOLE DISCRETION AND WITHOUT NOTICE, TERMINATE YOUR ACCESS TO THE GAME AND GAME SERVICES, AND SUSPEND OR DEACTIVATE YOUR ACCOUNTS WITH NO LIABILITY TO IT RELATING THERETO.
(Capslock was theirs, not mine)
tl;dr: If they think you have or will break a rule, they can, without notice or liability, terminate your account.
I doubt they would do that without a good reason, but it's still not something I am comfortable agreeing too if I will be investing hundreds/thousands of dollars into a collection. At least the paper cards, once I acquire them, are mine, regardless of what WotC has to say about it.
