I was just looking at Reset from Legends. It's ability is really green, but can be seen slightly are cards like Prophet of Kruphix (so it is not entirely out of it's color pie).
So what is stopping cards like Reset from being reprinted in supplemental products? It's uncommon; not associated w/ the lore of a particular set; not on the Reserved List... Could it's value at almost $20 have something to do w/ it? Does it seam too powerful at uncommon (they could just rarity shift it)?
What other cards could/should be reprinted that haven't been?
In addition, we are often reactive when it comes to reprints. When working on a reprint set, we look at tournament results; do market research on how popular cards are; and, most importantly, actively listen to feedback from the community. Much of this information drives our discussion of which cards to put in Masters sets and other sets with reprints.
Reset isn't high enough on any of those factors for Wizards to want to reprint it.
Reset is a card that pushes counter control harder than anything. Why would they want to reprint it when counters are down there with land destruction in hatred?
Reset is a card that pushes counter control harder than anything. Why would they want to reprint it when counters are down there with land destruction in hatred?
This doesn't really matter. They reprinted Sinkhole after all.
izzetmage's answer is probably spot on, but that doesn't mean that we won't see it eventually. With all the old cards that are prime for reprints, it will take a long time to get to all of them (if Wizards ever does).
The company is kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place with keeping cards in print. They have to set up print runs at printing facilities for sets they have to build, balance, and playtest, then have to set up a length of time they want the print facilities to keep printing that product. This is with setting up a point in time that the product is the featured hype train in a busy year round product releases fest.
Also, even when they don't print something to be standard legal the designers at wizards are still trying to stick with newer standards, which can make getting older reprints out a challenge as people have to really be pining over them. The only set that they made an exception to this with was eternal masters and the second coming of counterspell and Force of Will.
1. (Ravnica Allegiance): You can't keep a good esper control deck down... Or Wilderness Reclamation... or Gates...
2. (War of the Spark): Guys, I know what we need! We need a cycle of really idiotic flavor text victory cards! Jace's Triumph...
3. (War of the Spark): Lets make the format with control have even more control!
I would love to see Reset in an Eternal Masters (if they make another one).
There's a ton of stuff I want to see a reprint of such as Turnabout, Temporal Aperture, and a number of cards from Magics olden days.
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1. (Ravnica Allegiance): You can't keep a good esper control deck down... Or Wilderness Reclamation... or Gates...
2. (War of the Spark): Guys, I know what we need! We need a cycle of really idiotic flavor text victory cards! Jace's Triumph...
3. (War of the Spark): Lets make the format with control have even more control!
The company is kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place with keeping cards in print. They have to set up print runs at printing facilities for sets they have to build, balance, and playtest, then have to set up a length of time they want the print facilities to keep printing that product. This is with setting up a point in time that the product is the featured hype train in a busy year round product releases fest.
Also, even when they don't print something to be standard legal the designers at wizards are still trying to stick with newer standards, which can make getting older reprints out a challenge as people have to really be pining over them. The only set that they made an exception to this with was eternal masters and the second coming of counterspell and Force of Will.
Isn't that one of the reasons for Masterpieces (gag..) and Eternal Masters? To milk the rabid hunger of people who want these older cards?
I really wish they would start printing new non-standard sets. Not sets with themes like Conspiracy or draft sets like EM but literally a bunch of cards in a box and see where they land....like ABU. No top down design. Not a boat load of intense testing. I don't even care of the art is coherent or if the cards have flavor text. Just make the dang cards and let me play 'em.
The company is kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place with keeping cards in print. They have to set up print runs at printing facilities for sets they have to build, balance, and playtest, then have to set up a length of time they want the print facilities to keep printing that product. This is with setting up a point in time that the product is the featured hype train in a busy year round product releases fest.
Also, even when they don't print something to be standard legal the designers at wizards are still trying to stick with newer standards, which can make getting older reprints out a challenge as people have to really be pining over them. The only set that they made an exception to this with was eternal masters and the second coming of counterspell and Force of Will.
Isn't that one of the reasons for Masterpieces (gag..) and Eternal Masters? To milk the rabid hunger of people who want these older cards?
I really wish they would start printing new non-standard sets. Not sets with themes like Conspiracy or draft sets like EM but literally a bunch of cards in a box and see where they land....like ABU. No top down design. Not a boat load of intense testing. I don't even care of the art is coherent or if the cards have flavor text. Just make the dang cards and let me play 'em.
That's actually what a ton of players really want, especially for formats like commander, which are more about building decks yourself than buying a precon and playing it out of the box. As much as I like the precon decks, I'd rather have sets of lands, commander reprints, and cards boxed up in a set and served out than to have to deal with booster packs and preconstructed decks. Unfortunately, Wizards has fallen into the fallacy of making themselves beholden to secondary market prices and thus have made getting needed reprints of cards rather difficult.
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1. (Ravnica Allegiance): You can't keep a good esper control deck down... Or Wilderness Reclamation... or Gates...
2. (War of the Spark): Guys, I know what we need! We need a cycle of really idiotic flavor text victory cards! Jace's Triumph...
3. (War of the Spark): Lets make the format with control have even more control!
We still can't seem to get a Flusterstorm reprint.
Many people were confused why it was left out of the first invocations as they seemed to reprint every counterspell including: Force of Will, Counterspell, Cryptic Command, Pacot of Negation, Daze, and even super inexpensive counterspells like Spell Pierece. And now in the newest set we have Forbid.
Flusterstorm is a situational sideboard counterspell for Legacy and yet it's around $60-70 at times = (
We still can't seem to get a Flusterstorm reprint.
Many people were confused why it was left out of the first invocations as they seemed to reprint every counterspell including: Force of Will, Counterspell, Cryptic Command, Pacot of Negation, Daze, and even super inexpensive counterspells like Spell Pierece. And now in the newest set we have Forbid.
Flusterstorm is a situational sideboard counterspell for Legacy and yet it's around $60-70 at times = (
We still can't seem to get a Flusterstorm reprint.
Many people were confused why it was left out of the first invocations as they seemed to reprint every counterspell including: Force of Will, Counterspell, Cryptic Command, Pacot of Negation, Daze, and even super inexpensive counterspells like Spell Pierece. And now in the newest set we have Forbid.
Flusterstorm is a situational sideboard counterspell for Legacy and yet it's around $60-70 at times = (
It may show up in one of the commander products coming in the next couple of months. Given how conservative wizards is being with expensive magic cards on the secondary market, they may be moving to two masters sets temporarily to see if doubling down on the premium booster boxes will drop prices low enough for cards to see reprints in other sets.
Private Mod Note
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Rollback Post to RevisionRollBack
1. (Ravnica Allegiance): You can't keep a good esper control deck down... Or Wilderness Reclamation... or Gates...
2. (War of the Spark): Guys, I know what we need! We need a cycle of really idiotic flavor text victory cards! Jace's Triumph...
3. (War of the Spark): Lets make the format with control have even more control!
The problem with Flusterstorm is that it is Storm. Yes I know we have seen some trickle out in reprints but too many of the storm cards were deemed too powerful. That is one of them. I think the best chance you have of getting a reprint is through something like a future Invocation sideset.
True-Name-Nemesis should also never get a reprint. It's too powerful.
Reset isn't expensive, especially today. With shipping I can get one for under $12, sure it might be beat up, but a card is a card. What this was during Urza's Saga was typically game ending, as one of those legendary lands was untapped and the opponent suffered a crushing defeat on their turn. Yeah I was there. I was also there to see Hurkyl's Recall used to untapped moxes.
Do I think Blue is a far cry from what it was in terms of power pre-Modern? Yes. Does it need broken cards? No, it just needs ones slightly better than standard is granting.
WotC is very cautious about upsetting invested players by tanking the value of older cards. On top of this, they want everybody playing Standard and limited anyway.
IMO WotC needs to do a better job supporting non-rotating formats. Otherwise players will not stay with the game - and established players are a non-trivial portion of their business.
Reset is a card that pushes counter control harder than anything. Why would they want to reprint it when counters are down there with land destruction in hatred?
Unless it went into a Standard legal set, a Reset reprint will only push Legacy High Tide. This seems like a good deck to support because it uses no RL cards.
Pointing out that Flusterstorm is a "storm" card is pretty misleading.
It's a very situational counterspell which is in many cases worse than Spell Pierce (which is meh). No one is comboing off with Flusterstorm. Flusterstorm is a card that hates out the degenerate storm cards so if wizards didn't like people dying to storm cards they should be supporting Flusterstorm.
Unless it went into a Standard legal set, a Reset reprint will only push Legacy High Tide. This seems like a good deck to support because it uses no RL cards.
I thought High Tide ran Time Spiral and, in some case, Candelabra of Tawnos. I can see some lists that don't run Candelabra, but I think all run Time Spiral. Both are Reserved.
But, I think your point is somewhat valid in that this is a Legacy deck that Wizards can have some control over in regards to reprints.
Also, I think others in this thread are not realizing this is about reprinting these cards in general, not necessarily in Standard. Yes, Wizards doesn't want Reset in Standard, but they have 3 sets coming up that are not Standard Legal and presumably will have more. Flusterstorm could also make an appearance. Again, not in Standard but in other sets to get the availability of these cards up.
Unless it went into a Standard legal set, a Reset reprint will only push Legacy High Tide. This seems like a good deck to support because it uses no RL cards.
I thought High Tide ran Time Spiral and, in some case, Candelabra of Tawnos. I can see some lists that don't run Candelabra, but I think all run Time Spiral. Both are Reserved.
There are 2 High Tide archetypes in Legacy. Spiral Tide runs Candles and Time Spiral. Reset Tide (aka, Solidarity) runs only instants and spells with flash. No Candles, no Merchant Scroll, no Time Spiral. The idea is to always go off on the opponent's turn - usually in reaction to them trying to kill you.
It would be a great archetype for WotC to support, but honestly it's a tad weak and could use some new tech or a Frantic Search unban.
Unless it went into a Standard legal set, a Reset reprint will only push Legacy High Tide. This seems like a good deck to support because it uses no RL cards.
I thought High Tide ran Time Spiral and, in some case, Candelabra of Tawnos. I can see some lists that don't run Candelabra, but I think all run Time Spiral. Both are Reserved.
There are 2 High Tide archetypes in Legacy. Spiral Tide runs Candles and Time Spiral. Reset Tide (aka, Solidarity) runs only instants and spells with flash. No Candles, no Merchant Scroll, no Time Spiral. The idea is to always go off on the opponent's turn - usually in reaction to them trying to kill you.
It would be a great archetype for WotC to support, but honestly it's a tad weak and could use some new tech or a Frantic Search unban.
Ah, fair enough. I don't follow Legacy enough to know there are two archetypes.
Either way your point still stands. There are cards like Reset that seem worthwhile for Wizards to reprint to shore up some decks with supply issues (even if the cards aren't necessarily expensive). I am sure there are other decks with cards that fit into this category and I am hoping with their Masters sets we will see more and more of these cards make appearances.
I am sure there are other decks with cards that fit into this category and I am hoping with their Masters sets we will see more and more of these cards make appearances.
If WotC really want Legacy to thrive, they need to print dual lands with a trivial drawback. eg, pay a life or CIPT only if your commander is in play (or something like that).
Currently they are hiding behind a silly and undefined abstraction called the "spirit" of the reserved list.
I am sure there are other decks with cards that fit into this category and I am hoping with their Masters sets we will see more and more of these cards make appearances.
If WotC really want Legacy to thrive, they need to print dual lands with a trivial drawback. eg, pay a life or CIPT only if your commander is in play (or something like that).
Currently they are hiding behind a silly and undefined abstraction called the "spirit" of the reserved list.
Thats only half the equation, say they print This
Underground Sea 2.0
Island Swamp
Comes in to play tapped if your commander is on the battle field.
For most decks this is underground sea 5-8. You need to BAN the orignal in addition to printing the near perfect functional reprints. Otherwise decks will use both. Ideally they need to print something like this
Underground sea 2
Island Swamp
You may not play Underground sea 2 in your deck if it has underground sea in it.
Unless it went into a Standard legal set, a Reset reprint will only push Legacy High Tide. This seems like a good deck to support because it uses no RL cards.
I thought High Tide ran Time Spiral and, in some case, Candelabra of Tawnos. I can see some lists that don't run Candelabra, but I think all run Time Spiral. Both are Reserved.
There are 2 High Tide archetypes in Legacy. Spiral Tide runs Candles and Time Spiral. Reset Tide (aka, Solidarity) runs only instants and spells with flash. No Candles, no Merchant Scroll, no Time Spiral. The idea is to always go off on the opponent's turn - usually in reaction to them trying to kill you.
It would be a great archetype for WotC to support, but honestly it's a tad weak and could use some new tech or a Frantic Search unban.
Ah, fair enough. I don't follow Legacy enough to know there are two archetypes.
You can't really be blamed for not knowing. Solidarity has been exceedingly fringe for a long time, as it's really not as good as Spiral Tide. Granted, Spiral Tide is pretty fringe also, but it's less fringe than Solidarity and hasn't been on the fringes for as long.
Though amusingly, while Solidarity is on the whole worse than Spiral Tide, it completely crushes Spiral Tide when they play against each other.
For most decks this is underground sea 5-8. You need to BAN the orignal in addition to printing the near perfect functional reprints. Otherwise decks will use both.
I can't think of any Legacy decks that would actually want 5-8 of a given dual because of the wy fetches mold manabases. Maybe Infect would want the 5th Trop, but I'm not even certain of that. Maybe players would still want both types of duals for extreme corner cases (like some sort of Sowing Salt effects), but this would be a trivial amount of positive win percentage. Functionally identical duals would give new players a cheap entryway into most Legacy decks with near-zero downsides.
That said, I don't expect WotC to ever do this, because it might cut into Standard/Limited profits and heaven forbib players wander off the reservation.
My personal belief is that even if a card isn't on the Reserved List that it could be on a more secret list that's akin to it. Up until Eternal Masters we all knew what some of these cards were (Force of Will, Wasteland, Sinkhole, etc.), but even still now there are cards that they just will not to reprint, even if there are opportunities to do so. Now it could be because they have forgotten about them, plain choose not to reprint, or believe they can't for some reason or another.
Of course that's my own conspiracy belief that I only slightly believe.
To be frank, the reason I hate WoTC as a company is that they make a good card game, but as can be seen by the secondary market demand rarely print what people want. Then, when they do cave and print what people want, they sell them at exorbitantly high prices in the hope that it will force those players to go buy more of whatever they currently are creating. They can only get away with doing that for so long before people just start caving and getting resentful, especially those who are long term players wanting to pick up older cards and don't actually play any major format in particular. I mean, pauper basically came about as a way to make magic affordable in constructed play because of wizards being complete incompetent with their cash cow and frontier came about for similar reasons.
The problems with reprints aren't just with older cards. Wizards does this with new cards at the mythic rarity thanks to wanting to preserve an artificial value scheme that provably doesn't work for the long term health of the game. 80+ usd cards are not healthy for Magic the Gathering despite what some people want to believe, and neither is having a staggeringly expensive mana base that everyone agrees is optimal in eternal formats.
Also, the ugly truth is that Wizards of the Coast the publisher really doesn't care if what they print is good, they just care that they can force players who are established into buying newer cards based on the fact that once they rotate they will just climb forever in price. Then they make it hard to purchase later because they have crammed so many products into a short window of time, creating a situation where enfranchised players have to work on an increasingly tight schedule to get the best deals. This has to stop. It's going to drive away a lot of potential players and constantly create problems for those who are enfranchised lovers of the game.
1. (Ravnica Allegiance): You can't keep a good esper control deck down... Or Wilderness Reclamation... or Gates...
2. (War of the Spark): Guys, I know what we need! We need a cycle of really idiotic flavor text victory cards! Jace's Triumph...
3. (War of the Spark): Lets make the format with control have even more control!
I can't think of any Legacy decks that would actually want 5-8 of a given dual because of the wy fetches mold manabases. Maybe Infect would want the 5th Trop, but I'm not even certain of that.
This. Very few decks even run a full set of four. Any deck that for some reason would want 5 or more would get an extremely marginal boost; which is not an issue at all (new printings sometimes help established decks).
That said, I don't expect WotC to ever do this, because it might cut into Standard/Limited profits and heaven forbib players wander off the reservation.
The flip-side is that a lot players get bored of Standard and frustrated by rotation. Established players want a format to play the older cards they've accumulated. It's better for WotC if established customers switch to (primarily) eternal than if they outright quit.
So what is stopping cards like Reset from being reprinted in supplemental products? It's uncommon; not associated w/ the lore of a particular set; not on the Reserved List... Could it's value at almost $20 have something to do w/ it? Does it seam too powerful at uncommon (they could just rarity shift it)?
What other cards could/should be reprinted that haven't been?
Reset isn't high enough on any of those factors for Wizards to want to reprint it.
| Ad Nauseam
| Infect
Big Johnny.
izzetmage's answer is probably spot on, but that doesn't mean that we won't see it eventually. With all the old cards that are prime for reprints, it will take a long time to get to all of them (if Wizards ever does).
Also, even when they don't print something to be standard legal the designers at wizards are still trying to stick with newer standards, which can make getting older reprints out a challenge as people have to really be pining over them. The only set that they made an exception to this with was eternal masters and the second coming of counterspell and Force of Will.
1. (Ravnica Allegiance): You can't keep a good esper control deck down... Or Wilderness Reclamation... or Gates...
2. (War of the Spark): Guys, I know what we need! We need a cycle of really idiotic flavor text victory cards! Jace's Triumph...
3. (War of the Spark): Lets make the format with control have even more control!
There's a ton of stuff I want to see a reprint of such as Turnabout, Temporal Aperture, and a number of cards from Magics olden days.
1. (Ravnica Allegiance): You can't keep a good esper control deck down... Or Wilderness Reclamation... or Gates...
2. (War of the Spark): Guys, I know what we need! We need a cycle of really idiotic flavor text victory cards! Jace's Triumph...
3. (War of the Spark): Lets make the format with control have even more control!
Isn't that one of the reasons for Masterpieces (gag..) and Eternal Masters? To milk the rabid hunger of people who want these older cards?
I really wish they would start printing new non-standard sets. Not sets with themes like Conspiracy or draft sets like EM but literally a bunch of cards in a box and see where they land....like ABU. No top down design. Not a boat load of intense testing. I don't even care of the art is coherent or if the cards have flavor text. Just make the dang cards and let me play 'em.
That's actually what a ton of players really want, especially for formats like commander, which are more about building decks yourself than buying a precon and playing it out of the box. As much as I like the precon decks, I'd rather have sets of lands, commander reprints, and cards boxed up in a set and served out than to have to deal with booster packs and preconstructed decks. Unfortunately, Wizards has fallen into the fallacy of making themselves beholden to secondary market prices and thus have made getting needed reprints of cards rather difficult.
1. (Ravnica Allegiance): You can't keep a good esper control deck down... Or Wilderness Reclamation... or Gates...
2. (War of the Spark): Guys, I know what we need! We need a cycle of really idiotic flavor text victory cards! Jace's Triumph...
3. (War of the Spark): Lets make the format with control have even more control!
Many people were confused why it was left out of the first invocations as they seemed to reprint every counterspell including: Force of Will, Counterspell, Cryptic Command, Pacot of Negation, Daze, and even super inexpensive counterspells like Spell Pierece. And now in the newest set we have Forbid.
Flusterstorm is a situational sideboard counterspell for Legacy and yet it's around $60-70 at times = (
$90 right now
It may show up in one of the commander products coming in the next couple of months. Given how conservative wizards is being with expensive magic cards on the secondary market, they may be moving to two masters sets temporarily to see if doubling down on the premium booster boxes will drop prices low enough for cards to see reprints in other sets.
1. (Ravnica Allegiance): You can't keep a good esper control deck down... Or Wilderness Reclamation... or Gates...
2. (War of the Spark): Guys, I know what we need! We need a cycle of really idiotic flavor text victory cards! Jace's Triumph...
3. (War of the Spark): Lets make the format with control have even more control!
True-Name-Nemesis should also never get a reprint. It's too powerful.
Reset isn't expensive, especially today. With shipping I can get one for under $12, sure it might be beat up, but a card is a card. What this was during Urza's Saga was typically game ending, as one of those legendary lands was untapped and the opponent suffered a crushing defeat on their turn. Yeah I was there. I was also there to see Hurkyl's Recall used to untapped moxes.
Do I think Blue is a far cry from what it was in terms of power pre-Modern? Yes. Does it need broken cards? No, it just needs ones slightly better than standard is granting.
IMO WotC needs to do a better job supporting non-rotating formats. Otherwise players will not stay with the game - and established players are a non-trivial portion of their business.
Unless it went into a Standard legal set, a Reset reprint will only push Legacy High Tide. This seems like a good deck to support because it uses no RL cards.
https://fieldmarshalshandbook.wordpress.com/
RUGLegacy Lands.dec
RUGBLegacy Lands.dec
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WUBRG EDH Lands.dec
UBR EDH Artificer Prodigy
B EDH Relentless Rats
It's a very situational counterspell which is in many cases worse than Spell Pierce (which is meh). No one is comboing off with Flusterstorm. Flusterstorm is a card that hates out the degenerate storm cards so if wizards didn't like people dying to storm cards they should be supporting Flusterstorm.
But, I think your point is somewhat valid in that this is a Legacy deck that Wizards can have some control over in regards to reprints.
Also, I think others in this thread are not realizing this is about reprinting these cards in general, not necessarily in Standard. Yes, Wizards doesn't want Reset in Standard, but they have 3 sets coming up that are not Standard Legal and presumably will have more. Flusterstorm could also make an appearance. Again, not in Standard but in other sets to get the availability of these cards up.
It would be a great archetype for WotC to support, but honestly it's a tad weak and could use some new tech or a Frantic Search unban.
https://fieldmarshalshandbook.wordpress.com/
RUGLegacy Lands.dec
RUGBLegacy Lands.dec
RGLegacy Lands.dec
WUBRG EDH Lands.dec
UBR EDH Artificer Prodigy
B EDH Relentless Rats
Either way your point still stands. There are cards like Reset that seem worthwhile for Wizards to reprint to shore up some decks with supply issues (even if the cards aren't necessarily expensive). I am sure there are other decks with cards that fit into this category and I am hoping with their Masters sets we will see more and more of these cards make appearances.
If WotC really want Legacy to thrive, they need to print dual lands with a trivial drawback. eg, pay a life or CIPT only if your commander is in play (or something like that).
Currently they are hiding behind a silly and undefined abstraction called the "spirit" of the reserved list.
https://fieldmarshalshandbook.wordpress.com/
RUGLegacy Lands.dec
RUGBLegacy Lands.dec
RGLegacy Lands.dec
WUBRG EDH Lands.dec
UBR EDH Artificer Prodigy
B EDH Relentless Rats
Thats only half the equation, say they print This
Underground Sea 2.0
Island Swamp
Comes in to play tapped if your commander is on the battle field.
For most decks this is underground sea 5-8. You need to BAN the orignal in addition to printing the near perfect functional reprints. Otherwise decks will use both. Ideally they need to print something like this
Underground sea 2
Island Swamp
You may not play Underground sea 2 in your deck if it has underground sea in it.
Though amusingly, while Solidarity is on the whole worse than Spiral Tide, it completely crushes Spiral Tide when they play against each other.
I can't think of any Legacy decks that would actually want 5-8 of a given dual because of the wy fetches mold manabases. Maybe Infect would want the 5th Trop, but I'm not even certain of that. Maybe players would still want both types of duals for extreme corner cases (like some sort of Sowing Salt effects), but this would be a trivial amount of positive win percentage. Functionally identical duals would give new players a cheap entryway into most Legacy decks with near-zero downsides.
That said, I don't expect WotC to ever do this, because it might cut into Standard/Limited profits and heaven forbib players wander off the reservation.
Of course that's my own conspiracy belief that I only slightly believe.
The problems with reprints aren't just with older cards. Wizards does this with new cards at the mythic rarity thanks to wanting to preserve an artificial value scheme that provably doesn't work for the long term health of the game. 80+ usd cards are not healthy for Magic the Gathering despite what some people want to believe, and neither is having a staggeringly expensive mana base that everyone agrees is optimal in eternal formats.
Also, the ugly truth is that Wizards of the Coast the publisher really doesn't care if what they print is good, they just care that they can force players who are established into buying newer cards based on the fact that once they rotate they will just climb forever in price. Then they make it hard to purchase later because they have crammed so many products into a short window of time, creating a situation where enfranchised players have to work on an increasingly tight schedule to get the best deals. This has to stop. It's going to drive away a lot of potential players and constantly create problems for those who are enfranchised lovers of the game.
1. (Ravnica Allegiance): You can't keep a good esper control deck down... Or Wilderness Reclamation... or Gates...
2. (War of the Spark): Guys, I know what we need! We need a cycle of really idiotic flavor text victory cards! Jace's Triumph...
3. (War of the Spark): Lets make the format with control have even more control!
This. Very few decks even run a full set of four. Any deck that for some reason would want 5 or more would get an extremely marginal boost; which is not an issue at all (new printings sometimes help established decks).
The flip-side is that a lot players get bored of Standard and frustrated by rotation. Established players want a format to play the older cards they've accumulated. It's better for WotC if established customers switch to (primarily) eternal than if they outright quit.
https://fieldmarshalshandbook.wordpress.com/
RUGLegacy Lands.dec
RUGBLegacy Lands.dec
RGLegacy Lands.dec
WUBRG EDH Lands.dec
UBR EDH Artificer Prodigy
B EDH Relentless Rats