Let's not kid ourselves, these mistakes were done on purpose where even though Play Design may have thought some cards were problematic their excuse was like, 'Yeah.but that's what we're doing.' If these cards are Standard good then it's only going to be like a $3 card. Perhaps they never actually heard of a little something called 'wallet fatigue'.Ī lot of services and products went from really popular being the cheapest best most liked in the industry in their market to dead when they tried to over monetize their customers. Counterproductive it seems on the surface.but it's not. They also need to realize that they became the number one Trading Card Game / Collectible Card Game in the world with Magic: The Gathering FOR A REASON and If they want to STAY THERE and make money just by default they need to not attempt to make way too much money too quickly. Those people at Wizards of the Coast / Hasbro need to get a clue and realize that you don't make any money If you kill the game. What was the whole point of Secret Lair If they're wanting more people to play MTG Arena online instead of at the LGS?

Not wanting distributors and LGS's to take margins selling direct-to-consumer by putting the LGS out of business is greed. It's greed because Wizards of the Coast / Hasbro wants to make more money on Standard, adding side products and collectors crap. That there needs to be more purely critical attention devoted to these sets to reduce the frequency of mistakes.īroken cards, broken gameplay, Standard that nobody wants to play, cards getting overpriced to unaffordability where you can't even afford to play Standard anymore, and then piling other stuff on top of it. I have seen it argued (BBD, Sperling, I forget where I saw it) that Play Design is conflicted in that they are helping develop cards as well as testing. It remains to be seen if Theros Beyond Death will be enough to get Standard events firing with regularity in my area. The reigns of Field and then Oko each took more of a toll and now there is competition from Pioneer. Standard attendance took a several hits in the Zendikar/Innistrad era. As far as I can tell, this third iteration of Eldraine seems diverse and challenging, but it doesn't matter if the events won't fire. However, Standard is currently hurting near me also.

While many games have fallen, I don't know that MTG is due for a collapse. Clearly, with Oko, Veil, Field and Once Upon a Time, mistakes were made. While Narset and 3feri are format-warping, they apparently weren't so oppressive that they demanded a ban. I think Ixalan was underpowered and they needed to increase the power level to sell cards, period. Attributing motivation regarding other formats doesn't seem necessary.

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