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Sterling
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I haven't played 1E in like ~ 30 years but that's definitely where my nostalgia for the game is regardless of the actual modern quality of it. Malaki the Gnome Thief/Illusionist will live on forever.
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Arbitrary
Tranny Chaser
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Sterling
El Presidente
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Unlikely. This set's mechanics are trash and I haven't really played since Ikoria.
ronne
Nǐ hǎo, yǒu jīn zi ma?
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Kuro
Naxxramas 1.0 Raider
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Honestly I'm okay with the weaker cards. I'm not going to buy a bunch, but standard needs a boot to the ballse for a year or two to try to reset it. If wizards is willing to choke down a period of lower profit for the long term health of the game, I think that would be good.
Unfortunately, they will instead spook and bail early to get sales numbers back.
Unfortunately, they will instead spook and bail early to get sales numbers back.
fanaskin
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I think mystical archives was one way wizards tried to help people buy a powered down set. help mitigate losses in sales.
Chris
Potato del Grande
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That's their monetization strategy though.
Get more money out of their shrinking playerbase with premium products and super rare alternate frames and art styles.
I wouldn't have thought that many would be Walking Dead or Godzilla fanatics either, or the even more niche secret lairs.
Ritley
Karazhan Raider
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Compared to what we’ve seen in AFR so far, Strixhaven was a powerhouse set.
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Heylel
Trakanon Raider
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Pretty sure it's not shrinking. COVID was a blow to the traditional way of playing Magic but they still sold more cards than ever. I've never seen good estimates of market size among players at home, but they've always said the LGS and competitive crowds were a very small fraction of total sales.
Set still sucks balls though. If this is what Universes Beyond have in store, they can fuckin keep it.
Mist
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I think that game was salvageable with a lot of work, but given how shitty Dark Alliance is, they can't launch two bad products in 1 year.not even out of beta lol
Magic: Legends will shut down in October, before game’s full release
The game won’t come to Windows PC via Steam or console, after allwww.polygon.com
Mist
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This is a standard legal set and therefore not Universes Beyond.
I'm gonna give a real minority opinion here: This set will probably be fun to draft. The drafts will have some very grindy, interactive board states, with a ton of modal cards that will require you actually getting card advantage to break board stalls. This is how drafts are supposed to work. There will probably be <35 cards that get played in constructed ever, and <10 that get played in eternal formats, but that's okay. That's how Standard legal expansions are SUPPOSED to be. The recent meta of having every Standard set print 50+ pushed bombs cannot continue. I honestly hope they start bringing the power level of Standard back down to historical norms by pushing out more of these clunky ass sets.
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Chris
Potato del Grande
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They selling more cards to less (and older) people. It's a dying game, this is the last squeeze to get some major cash out of the playbase for Hasbro.
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Mist
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Do you have any data to back this up?
Just the digital sales of Magic have dwarfed the profits of the rest of Hasbro put together.
WotC Makes More Money than Hasbro's Toy Business
And Other Fun Facts from Hasbro's Investor Day
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Chris
Potato del Grande
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No, I just want it to be true.Do you have any data to back this up?
Just the digital sales of Magic have dwarfed the profits of the rest of Hasbro put together.
WotC Makes More Money than Hasbro's Toy Business
And Other Fun Facts from Hasbro's Investor Day
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fanaskin
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Mist
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