I wasn't imagining the Owner reprinting the card, but that the publisher is providing the reprints as a service to those who own the nft.
Specifically, I'm imagining a case where people still go to the store, buy a card, and each card comes with a QR code or something. You can go online, scan the QR code, and have the NFT representing that physical card transferred to your NFT deck.
You could play games virtually with only cards that you have Proven you own, and if you ever lose the physical card the publisher will send you a new copy.
A key idea here is that every Instance of a card would have a unique identifier and thus a unique NFT; two people scanning the QR code for the same card shouldn't result in them both getting the NFT.
Thank you for the explanation. Most people want to see their physical card in front of them.
In the system you describe people would almost certainly sell the NFT and keep the physical card, while saying they lost it. This would drive the value of collector's memorabilia down to zero. Nobody really cares about NFTs.
I guess I'm imagining tournament use playing a role, but more generally tying the concept of ownership & legitimacy to the NFT. Ideally it would move the value of the asset into the digital representation instead of the physical, which is what would happen if the physical representation of the asset is easily replicated.
Like sure they could sell the NFT and keep the physical card, but at that point the physical card is now illegitimate. And a lot of the value is in legitimacy, right? If the only value was the physical representation, couldn't a collector could just print a counterfeit?
NFTs work when the important part is the abstract idea of "owning the thing", where the value of the thing is more extrinsic than intrinsic. The specific idea here is making the physical representation is worthless, putting all the value in the digital one. People would start caring a lot about NFTs if it was the "One True Source" of legitimacy.
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If we wanted to have both representations be equally as valuable, the idea would instead be to have to trade in the card to get the NFT. Trading in the card would involve burning the physical representation and issuing a digital one. If you want the physical rep back, trade the NFT back for a printed card.
Specifically, I'm imagining a case where people still go to the store, buy a card, and each card comes with a QR code or something. You can go online, scan the QR code, and have the NFT representing that physical card transferred to your NFT deck.
You could play games virtually with only cards that you have Proven you own, and if you ever lose the physical card the publisher will send you a new copy.
A key idea here is that every Instance of a card would have a unique identifier and thus a unique NFT; two people scanning the QR code for the same card shouldn't result in them both getting the NFT.