pweehee, yeah that's mega-obsessive.
My dad and brother do the same with their vast collections of comics, hoarding them all in pristine condition inside individual slimline plastic sleeves inside boxes in big stacks.
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I have seen people playing Magic the Gathering (the card game, not the online version) and while it looked good fun, I was scared off by the seemingly endless 'collectibility' - i.e. whoever has the most money can create the best deck of cards.
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I have aired this out with my MTG-playing friends extensively, and there's a good way around it which is optimally good for people who are relaxed about their cards and buy them communally in order to have a good set to play with.
This is the case with my awesome boyfriend and his snazzy brother - they have amassed a vast collection of cards together, along with a friend of theirs, and as such they have some really nice, fun cards to play with - and we don't have to worry about anyone nicking them because of winning them as ante
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Another excellent way to get around it, is to play with a whole load of proxy cards..... this is also a good way to get your hands on some playable copies of really fancy, pricey, rare cards. Just hijack a load of daggy cheap land, glue a load of paper on the front, and remake the card to be something else.
my boyfriend and his brother even have some cool (and well-considerd) cards which they've made themselves, although we haven;t been playign with those ones.
It's all good !
:P yah, you can;t do that with the online version of course hehe.
But it only works on broadband connections due to the tedious frequency and weight of updates, and it's love of crippling itself until such updating is complete, so I can't use it at home anyway, because it's too rural for broadband where i live.