Without even seeing the spoilers, I'd feel this set will probably be something I would get excited about under more traditional circumstances.
Honestly even if we had less products this year and this set hit it out of the park I'm probably going to say this set was awful strictly because of its price and the VIP boosters. There's no reason for either of them.
I agree the VIP boosters are stupid expensive, as in the product has become lame.
But the regular boosters seem packed full of value for $12-14 - that's not much more than I paid per pack for a box of Ultimate Masters and that was one of the most fun boxes I ever opened - and these have double the foil/rare slots.
We have no idea if the packs are actually filled with value at this point, but you’re looking at this like an abused spouse. WotC is hurting you for no reason, but this time isn’t much worse than last time.
There is no reason whatsoever for Masters packs to cost more than regular packs. If anything they should cost less because there isn’t anywhere near as much development required for reprint sets. Every new Standard set(excepting Core Sets) requires new art for every card and a very lengthy development process involving probably 10x as many employees. Reprint sets only require a small design team to develop the draft experience and a handful of new art commissions. If a Standard pack costs $3.99 with all the work and time and money that goes into making that set then Masters sets should cost $2.99.
The actual reason is just that people are buying up everything on the reserved list to sit on it for a while and unload it all once people have money again. My source? Myself. I’m doing that. I’ve bought a lot of reserved list cards in the last 5 months. I have very solid positions on quite a few reserved list cards.
yes, freedom of speech for those you agree with - but try to shut down those you dont
anyway this is my last post on this site, so well done with that.
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Trying to force other people to stop expressing their 1st Amendment rights is not just you also expressing your 1st Amendment rights, it’s you being a triggered snowflake.
Classic short term vs. long term planning. It will catch up to Hasbro/WotC sooner than later. Pretty soon the whales will get full enough, take their money elsewhere and the whole thing will collapse. Maybe then we can reclaim the game via an ownership that is driven by fans and a playerbase. I'd like to also bring up that if you buy 100 packs either sealed or the singles from this set you are part of the problem, not the solution.
The entire global economy has been built around short term gains instead of long term success over the last 40 years or so. A company will cut off its nose to sell it for a quick cash injection. The entire model is based on the delusion of never-ending growth with every quarter’s growth outpacing the previous quarter. If a company needs to invest in itself for long term success but has to have a few bad quarters or years to do it then the market loses faith in them and they’ll probably have their value diminished to next to nothing.
For the record, people can draft a set focused exclusively on reprints if they wanted. It would be a mess,
But they could.
We’re beyond this “boosters are for drafting” excuse now that Collector’s Boosters exist. Why is it fine for those packs of reprints to not be made for draft but a set that exists to get reprints into people’s hands must be hamstrung by being a draft set?
Really?
We have no idea if the packs are actually filled with value at this point, but you’re looking at this like an abused spouse. WotC is hurting you for no reason, but this time isn’t much worse than last time.
There is no reason whatsoever for Masters packs to cost more than regular packs. If anything they should cost less because there isn’t anywhere near as much development required for reprint sets. Every new Standard set(excepting Core Sets) requires new art for every card and a very lengthy development process involving probably 10x as many employees. Reprint sets only require a small design team to develop the draft experience and a handful of new art commissions. If a Standard pack costs $3.99 with all the work and time and money that goes into making that set then Masters sets should cost $2.99.
Trying to force other people to stop expressing their 1st Amendment rights is not just you also expressing your 1st Amendment rights, it’s you being a triggered snowflake.
The entire global economy has been built around short term gains instead of long term success over the last 40 years or so. A company will cut off its nose to sell it for a quick cash injection. The entire model is based on the delusion of never-ending growth with every quarter’s growth outpacing the previous quarter. If a company needs to invest in itself for long term success but has to have a few bad quarters or years to do it then the market loses faith in them and they’ll probably have their value diminished to next to nothing.
We’re beyond this “boosters are for drafting” excuse now that Collector’s Boosters exist. Why is it fine for those packs of reprints to not be made for draft but a set that exists to get reprints into people’s hands must be hamstrung by being a draft set?
Have to? Why?