With a bit of play testing recently I have came across the situation of a Runechanter's Pike being equipped to a creature. Later on Disciple of Bolas enters the field targeting the equipped creature for it's effect. Would X be equal to the creature's Power with or without Runechanter's Pike's effect?
Historical Evidence to support argument: Baseball cards.
Counter Argument:
No.
I fail to see how I'm the one being illogical here.
You're not being illogical. I was a baseball card and comic book collector during the market crash of the 90's for both industries. Reprints in very very small amounts are fine. I think a lot of the younger audience here doesn't realize the impact lower prices have on stores that rely on the secondary market because the profit margins are much higher than new product.
I don't think it's really the collectors who make prices skyrocket.
That was partly my point as well. Whether it's a collector or a player who wants the card or holds onto it doesn't matter. We're all just people who want the cards, anything outside of that is arguing semantics.
Flooding the market with reprints is definitely NOT the way to run a successful business though. While stores can certainly make a decent initial profit on the new product, residual resales eventually become crippled.
But there are a small subset of players who collect magic as some kind of investment.
In some ways, this is a problem. *SNIP*
It is a 'collectible card game'. Collectors could make the exact same argument in reverse, that high demand by players is causing a 'collecting problem'. Get over it.
I do not get this appeasement of collectors malarkey. WOTC only concern should be to sell as many packs as possible. They could have made a modern / legacy Masters set like three years ago and made a ton of money. Instead they deliberately make less money in some sort respect to a very small segment of their player base.
I really do not get how their management defends such policies. If I had shares in Hasbro I would not be happy.
I think Modern is a inclusive format. You can play some semi competitive decks without having to spend much. Also the amount of casual fun you can have is immense.
The problem with this kind of thinking is the same as what happened back in the 90's with the baseball card market. Over printing literally crashed the market. Things are only really valuable if they're rare. Thousands of stores across the country closed because the new product coming out each year wasn't worth anything.
No resale value = no profit = no more retail shop.
Those triggers go on the stack before they resolve, so if someone were to kill either creature before the triggers resolve from the stack, the amount of life gained would depend on the creature's power at the time of Trostani's ability resolving.
The damage is dealt to silverblade paladin in the first strike step, destroying it. This means snapcaster won't have double strike in the second combat damage step and will deal no damage in that step.
Are you sure about that? Double Strike simply adds the First Strike damage step to your creature. Losing it shouldn't stop you from dealing damage in the normal damage step... It's still an attacking creature after all.
The reasoning for the price is twofold. It will stop standard players buying something that they dont need, leaving this for modern players. Standard players would rather have two packs of core set.
There is a very good second reason for the price that you just dont get. The EV of each pack can now be higher. Better cards can be in these packs.Eg. Two $1 rares means they can slip a $20 in as well. You might see some fringe playables, but I doubt there will be much junk.
The same cards can be in those packs whether they charge $1 or $100 for them. It costs no more for WoTC to produce these than any other cards. Spending $4 is already a lot for a booster pack.
Card value is determined by supply vs. demand, not how much you initially decide to charge for it. End of story.
You're not being illogical. I was a baseball card and comic book collector during the market crash of the 90's for both industries. Reprints in very very small amounts are fine. I think a lot of the younger audience here doesn't realize the impact lower prices have on stores that rely on the secondary market because the profit margins are much higher than new product.
Birds of Paradise does not ;).
That was partly my point as well. Whether it's a collector or a player who wants the card or holds onto it doesn't matter. We're all just people who want the cards, anything outside of that is arguing semantics.
Flooding the market with reprints is definitely NOT the way to run a successful business though. While stores can certainly make a decent initial profit on the new product, residual resales eventually become crippled.
It is a 'collectible card game'. Collectors could make the exact same argument in reverse, that high demand by players is causing a 'collecting problem'. Get over it.
The problem with this kind of thinking is the same as what happened back in the 90's with the baseball card market. Over printing literally crashed the market. Things are only really valuable if they're rare. Thousands of stores across the country closed because the new product coming out each year wasn't worth anything.
No resale value = no profit = no more retail shop.
Are you sure about that? Double Strike simply adds the First Strike damage step to your creature. Losing it shouldn't stop you from dealing damage in the normal damage step... It's still an attacking creature after all.
The same cards can be in those packs whether they charge $1 or $100 for them. It costs no more for WoTC to produce these than any other cards. Spending $4 is already a lot for a booster pack.
Card value is determined by supply vs. demand, not how much you initially decide to charge for it. End of story.
It does appear to. I just looked half a dozen times to be sure. They both look like 233... Makes me suspicious now.