The average cost of the top 10 decks at any moment is over $200, as meta shifts and sets rotate, you're buying ~5 decks per year minimum.
If you want to practice, you have to buy digital copies of those decks too (either buying singles in mtgo or a ton of boosters on arena)
If you want to play at the competitive level, you have to travel to multiple cities for open/gp events since there is a lot of randomness based on draw and matchups.
