Because of this, these cards make great choices to swap out of the deck when players need to put cards from their side deck into their main deck in games 2 and 3 of a match
These numbers also don't fully capture the cost of the remaining mythics because now that I've completed all of the commons, uncommons, and rares from the set, opening packs has greatly diminished returns
Some memorabilia or foil cards may require thicker toploaders
If you look back on Hex Parasite's price chart you'll see a pretty interesting example of how a Magic card slowly increases in price
an understanding of what cards people are after such that you can have some understanding of a rough hierarchy of value and desirability when it comes to cracking your own packs or tracking down the cards you want does not "actively harm the hobby", it is essentially the entire hobby for a lot of people
Many Phyrexian text cards are modern printings or promos, so they tend to be affordable