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One thing FIFA has that MTG never did: it effectively destroys you collection of cards every year. You can’t carry over cards between their yearly releases, and you can’t get updated rosters without getting the latest release.

It is, at least for sports games, incomparable to MTG or Pokémon.

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Hmm, aren't MTG releasing new sets every year? And don't they only allow cards from the last few years in tournaments?

I can still pull out my 20+ year old cards and play with friends. Some cards are reprinted and remain legal. Either way you aren’t playing your old fifa ones vs new ones

They have different formats that people play with varying amounts of sets being legal, one of the most popular formats is a casual format where almost every card printed is legal. Sure a lot of it becomes chaff, but it is not unusual for cards you buy to appreciate in value, or even gain a substantial amount of value when they become viable and popularized in decks or are enabled by new cards that are released.

The cards I played with decades ago when I was a kid in school have appreciated in value many multiples of times over.

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