MTG Salvation

Removing commander color restriction would be really bad for the game. A number of people at my lgs already just run 5 color good stuff using progenitus or child of alara. Removing that restriction would just let them play a hyper utility commander AND their 5 color goodness. I don't need to see a kiki jiki resto angel combo deck piloted by something like Azusa. No thank you. Removing restrictions would just punish people not willing to play 5 or 4 color decks that just run all the best cards. It just promotes the wallet arms race.

lol wouldn't this also dunk an Aether reservoir? If I understand right they would still pay the 50 life but you would be able to stop the burst of damage.

Jokes on us...it's a one drop artifact that automatically places Nicol Bolas on the field with double loyalty counters!

The trouble is the model wizards uses for the game and how they chose to deal with the situation of high demand cards moving forward. Standard bannings did hit standard, but standard is a flash in the pan format that has it's ups and downs no matter what they do. Modern is the real culprit and how they handled the demand when the population boom happened. The reason myself (and a lot of people) ended up getting bitter at wizards is that they promoted a really good format and failed to support it adequately to keep prices down. Meanwhile corporate mostly just sees dollars and financial numbers going up because their reformulation to the product line up allows for higher margins, so to them everything is going great while a lot of resentment and financial fatigue started setting in. This also is happening at the same time that a lot of game companies started to create endless money sinks via RNG systems. Originally, games had expansion passes and then the base game, but Blizzard Activision and a number of companies began to adopt tactics used in the mobile industry to better monetize their enfranchised player base.

With all free time spending on hobbies being equal, this starts really causing a lot of issues if someone is trying to play a variety of different games across genres, from CCGs like Magic to online arena shooters like Destiny / Overwatch, and Battlefront. That's why there's such a massive push back from the consumer base and on social media channels like YouTube right now. It's not any one sector of the entertainment market: It's the entire market across all the games doing this. Also, behind closed doors a lot of people have started to support content creators via patreon and services like Youtube Red because the advertising system fell through that used to help pay for the content, so now we have even more forces pressing on consumers.

Basically, if there is a bubble it's probably the entire entertainment industry and not just Wizards of the Coast. Wizards is just caught up in the entire thing and is probably making things worse instead of better.