[doctrgiggles]

The few annual tournaments in Vintage typically do allow players to show up and register their deck is present, then put it away in a travel safe and play with proxies. That's for decks that can easily be worth 50-100k.

[paulpauper]

MTG cards are among the best investments of the past 20 years. I think it beats out everything except bitcoin.

[myrmi]

I know of no tournament that is run this way - can you name an example?