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Magic is very complex. The closest analogy is actually Pokémon. Let me give you a simple example in depth.

An SL card has 4 stats. Health, Armor, Speed and Attack Type. Factorial 4 is 24. So 24 possible flat permutations using these 4 alone. But each stat has 10-20 possible values. Factorial 10 is 3628800. Factorial 20 is an 18 digit number so I won’t try and write it.

A Pokémon has 6 stats. HP, Attack, Defense, Special Attack, Special Defense, Speed. Factorial 6 is 720. Each of these stats can get values from 0 to 600. Factorial of 600 is essentially infinite :)

Oh I almost forgot, my apologies! In addition Pokémon does have abilities and hidden abilities. That’s 2 unique stats. It also have friendship and egg group. Oh… not to mention, Pokemon evolve as well.

Yeah so you see the complexities :)

And that’s considered rather “simple”.

I guess at least with the paper versions, there isn't much of a bot market :)