man trades suck (and I'm being very objective)

Not even in my most hater-like thoughts could I have guessed how tedious and expensive the exchange was going to be, it doesn't hold up anywhere, people who are whales don't need it, and those who aren't not going to have the resources to exchange, and since so many cards need to be destroyed, people won't have cards to exchange, and they aren't all of them and the complex system and the limitation to the friends list makes it even more complicated, they really were trying hard to figure out the worst way to do it (not ironically)