This is starting to look silly that because intimidate has fallen out of favor for standard and pioneer (and maybe Modern Horizons 2) they couldn’t include Vow of Malice in with this cycle.
I may want that CoCo, maybe for a EDH deck I get around to brewing. I don’t know if I want to spring for my own box even if some of the proceeds go to charity. I may just buy this CoCo as a single.
Magic has been super dead for me. While I'm still excited to look at new cards I'm not playing very much. They seriously need to cool it with the product release or re-organize the product releases in a way that makes sense. Cut the booster box level releases to 4x a year at the most. Then if they want to release a new secret lair every month sure.
There were 8x booster box types sets this year. It has to stop.
You want WotC to slow down their product roll of products you don’t buy and have no attention of buying anytime soon? Makes plenty of sense to me.
well... i think that plays into a larger point and isn't necessarily fair to write it all off like that
we were talking about it in a local shop yesterday. we're just absolutely bombarded with products, but those products over the past year seem to have lost focus. theyre oriented more around chasing a gimmick, or chasing mythics, than producing something higher quality that people want to buy repeatedly on its own merit. one great point the store owner brought up is that his newer customers and less whale-like customers end up feeling overwhelmed with product options. they come in to buy some packs, but they can buy these other packs for just a few dollars more that'll have more of this other thing in it, and for a few dollars more than that they can buy a different pack of the same set that has even more odds of getting this or that. trouble is, then they feel the lower priced product isn't worth it, and the higher priced product is priced too high so they walk away feeling ripped off no matter which option they go for. he's also sold out on a ton of product before most can even get it because whales will come in and buy it all to get those few hot cards, or conversely someone who isn't a whale gets really lucky and cracks some alt art foil showcase card and comes back to buy him out just like people do when they win money on scratchers. while product is moving faster and better, there is definitely an atmosphere of discontent and being overwhelmed by those that aren't getting lucky and those are the customers that have come in less.
it'd be great if there were fewer releases, but at a higher quality. more exploration of themes, less need to ban, more power across all rarities. i mean, some of these sets you still can't find but we're on to the next one before anyone can even realize it. it means the people with the money, who preordered, get to experience it and most others simply don't.
they've pushed the you're going to miss out angle so hard, and after awhile people feel like they are missing out... so what's the point? why keep buying? why keep maintaining? but those are the customers they dont' hear from, they just drop off as other people buy more which presents really flawed sales data. you can sell a ton of product and still have an unhealthy game.
i'd also wager this is a huge reason commander has surged in popularity recently. the toxic standard environments necessitating ban waves, the lack of support for other formats, the product bombardment, throw in some covid canceling limited events and what are people going to play? the nonrotating format that covers the breadth of their collection, which will be at hand, and they can play with friends at home or over discord.
anyway, regarding spoilers for this set... i'm cautiously pessimistic.
i want to hope for the best, i want something amazing, something that i'll want to buy cases of, but given the track record i don't expect it. i don't even expect to be able to find the product without preordering. what i do expect is to see some mediocre reprints that no one really needed, a lack of power at common and uncommon, some creative ideas that were reigned in really hard at rare, some absolutely format warping cards at mythic or a couple of extremely in demand reprints at mythic... and not much else. i think its really safe to assume if its been reprint this year already it won't be reprint here, and that knocks out a tremendous amount of cards that edh players actually want. the admittedly miniscule number of spoilers we've already received haven't really done anything to spark interest in me yet because it feels like more of the same, and this is really the only format i even play any more.
the product fatigue is real even here, where it should be hype instead. there is just so much printed lately, and so much printed with an edh slant, that it has become difficult to keep up - not just with the information, but the ever changing introduction of new powerful cards (mostly at mythic) aimed squarely at edh players. there's a point where simply too much product competes for the same dollars, and once you hit that point it becomes really easy to just walk away in favor of something that won't feel like a wallet vacuum.
I never understood this argument of “I have to keep up with the Joneses” in Magic. That may have included me back in ‘03, but nowadays I have a strict shopping list I adhere to and I never deviate from it when new premier sets come out. If something new is released I have to have, very cool, it gets added. But people may want to be more disciplined in what they chase after. The only way new things get added to my buy list is if WotC releases products the way that they do.
Magic has been super dead for me. While I'm still excited to look at new cards I'm not playing very much. They seriously need to cool it with the product release or re-organize the product releases in a way that makes sense. Cut the booster box level releases to 4x a year at the most. Then if they want to release a new secret lair every month sure.
There were 8x booster box types sets this year. It has to stop.
You want WotC to slow down their product roll of products you don’t buy and have no attention of buying anytime soon? Makes plenty of sense to me.
Thank God this isn’t something I want. I’m putting my credit card back into my wallet. But keep them coming, seriously. They’re bound to hit on Secret Lair: Slivers, or something I want eventually.
I’m considering running this in my cEDH Slivers deck. There’s 58 Slivers with copyable triggered or activated abilities. And since I’m a guessing man, we’ll see more brand new Slivers in Modern Horizons 2.
And kaldheim photo from plane chase has snow so with out even knowing by default snow is coming back in standard
and for strixhaven two predictions
1. It’s a Harry Potter/hogwarts inspired plane
2. It’s Kasmina‘s home plane plus they mentioned during war of the spark they have plans for her
We got this far down before someone said Harry Potter for Strixhaven. Totally sounds like Harry Potter. Bet they even play Quiddich or whatever.
I am here for this Time Spiral. That was my favorite block of all time.
I wonder how these reprints will affect card prices.
I’m only here for what’s in Time Spiral too. Specifically if they used this opportunity to update wording on those Slivers to “any target”, “enters the battlefield”, “mill”, “permanent”, “menace”, “reach” what have you.
I’m in a state of shock right now about all these announcements of upcoming sets, upcoming Secret Lairs, and Zendikar Rising reveals, they may have hit even on my sweet spots, wow.
I'm in a state of shock right now about all these announcements of upcoming sets, upcoming Secret Lairs, and Zendikar Rising reveals, and not a single 'wallet fatigue' complaint.
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No movie theater patronage, concerts, sporting events, vacationing that uses flights, might be the explanation no one is using wallet fatigue for these reveals.
I’m in a state of shock right now about all these announcements of upcoming sets, upcoming Secret Lairs, and Zendikar Rising reveals, they may have hit even on my sweet spots, wow.
I never understood this argument of “I have to keep up with the Joneses” in Magic. That may have included me back in ‘03, but nowadays I have a strict shopping list I adhere to and I never deviate from it when new premier sets come out. If something new is released I have to have, very cool, it gets added. But people may want to be more disciplined in what they chase after. The only way new things get added to my buy list is if WotC releases products the way that they do.
You want WotC to slow down their product roll of products you don’t buy and have no attention of buying anytime soon? Makes plenty of sense to me.
To be fair, Emrakul has flying, Ulamog could target destroy Charix, and the three Eldrazi legendary titans also had annihilate.
I’m only here for what’s in Time Spiral too. Specifically if they used this opportunity to update wording on those Slivers to “any target”, “enters the battlefield”, “mill”, “permanent”, “menace”, “reach” what have you.
No movie theater patronage, concerts, sporting events, vacationing that uses flights, might be the explanation no one is using wallet fatigue for these reveals.