I just don't see a point in each Standard set having both a Draft and Set Booster release when it should go back to the way it was before where it was just one release with all the cards. I get that Wizards of the Coast / Hasbro wants to provide the Booster Draft experience for those who purchase the Draft Boosters but how often do players do that nowadays? It also incentivizes Whales to hoard the Set Boosters or to be more precise the Collector's Editions just to flip for easy money. On that note why not also get rid of Collector's Editions of these Standard Sets? The point I'm getting at here is that less is more and the sooner Wizards of the Coast / Hasbro figures this out the better.
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America Bless Christ Jesus
"Restriction breeds creativity." - Sheldon Menery on EDH / Commander in Magic: The Gathering
"Cancel Culture is the real reason why everyone's not allowed to have nice things anymore." - Anonymous
"For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?" - Mark 8:36
"Most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution." - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
"Every life decision is always a risk / reward proposition." - Sanjay Gupta
I just don't see a point in each Standard set having both a Draft and Set Booster release when it should go back to the way it was before where it was just one release with all the cards. I get that Wizards of the Coast / Hasbro wants to provide the Booster Draft experience for those who purchase the Draft Boosters but how often do players do that nowadays? It also incentivizes Whales to hoard the Set Boosters or to be more precise the Collector's Editions just to flip for easy money. On that note why not also get rid of Collector's Editions of these Standard Sets? The point I'm getting at here is that less is more and the sooner Wizards of the Coast / Hasbro figures this out the better.
Disagree 100%. I buy Draft boosters to draft/play sealed with, and otherwise I always buy Set boosters, with their higher likelihood of getting 2 rares, and the 25% chance of getting a List card. Streets of New Capenna is more likely to have many more prereleases and drafts fire (and Kamigawa drafts too), now that COVID restrictions are starting to be lifted (at least in my country). I don't want to draft with Set boosters, so I want them to keep printing both.
Also, nothing wrong with Collector boosters. I like to buy one or two per set for the fun of opening a bunch of cool foils and the chance at some pretty rare chase cards. Plus they have helped to reduce the price of cards in a given set, making it a lot easier to buy all the cards I need.
Disagree 100%. I buy Draft boosters to draft/play sealed with, and otherwise I always buy Set boosters, with their higher likelihood of getting 2 rares, and the 25% chance of getting a List card. Streets of New Capenna is more likely to have many more prereleases and drafts fire (and Kamigawa drafts too), now that COVID restrictions are starting to be lifted (at least in my country). I don't want to draft with Set boosters, so I want them to keep printing both.
Also, nothing wrong with Collector boosters. I like to buy one or two per set for the fun of opening a bunch of cool foils and the chance at some pretty rare chase cards. Plus they have helped to reduce the price of cards in a given set, making it a lot easier to buy all the cards I need.
When you compare to other Paper Trading Card Games / Collectible Card Games they rarely go through the effort of trying to enable players to draft because it's not as fluid as it is in Paper Magic. With Pokémon TCG all you need is the right amount of basic energies that your LGS provides where as with Yu-Gi-Oh! it's next to impossible due to the game's complexity though I'm not sure about Flesh and Blood TCG since I never got around to playing it. In Cardfight!! Vanguard we never really built decks out of our packs when we just used our custom built ones since game design and mechanics for particular card games can make drafting difficult and not every card game is designed for drafting.
Be nice If the odds of pulling a List card was more than 25% in Set Boosters which is now what Wizards of the Coast / Hasbro is starting to do with Commander Pre-Con exclusives that normally would've been added to Commander Pre-Cons because they're trying to dissuade people into buying these $50+ products for one or two chase cards. It's actually kind of a smart move on their part since these cards won't affect Standard as much without going up in value because of it though I think trying to get the right balance of Standard without actually breaking the format while catering to Commander players has already been a huge challenge for Wizards of the Coast / Hasbro going forward.
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Rollback Post to RevisionRollBack
America Bless Christ Jesus
"Restriction breeds creativity." - Sheldon Menery on EDH / Commander in Magic: The Gathering
"Cancel Culture is the real reason why everyone's not allowed to have nice things anymore." - Anonymous
"For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?" - Mark 8:36
"Most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution." - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
"Every life decision is always a risk / reward proposition." - Sanjay Gupta
CLB is getting 4 decks, not 2 and it doesn't include any of the Alchemy sets (Alchemy: Innistrad, Alchemy: Kamigawa, Alchemy: New Capenna, Alchemy Horizons: Baldur's Gate, Alchemy: Dominaria United, and finally Alchemy: Brothers War.
I'll probably make a full list at the end of June, just as a "Let's see where we're at." Halfway through the year seems like a good check-in time. (Also, it takes a bit for me to cross-reference everything for product releases, and I do not have time right now.)
EDIT: Also, as a rule of thumb, I only list printed product, because adding in digital goods would have made everything even worse on a tracking level (going through each individual update for MTGA, double checking every release on MTGO, and the seeing what correlates with printed product to see what can be coalesced, it's just...too much)
"Restriction breeds creativity." - Sheldon Menery on EDH / Commander in Magic: The Gathering
"Cancel Culture is the real reason why everyone's not allowed to have nice things anymore." - Anonymous
"For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?" - Mark 8:36
"Most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution." - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
"Every life decision is always a risk / reward proposition." - Sanjay Gupta
Disagree 100%. I buy Draft boosters to draft/play sealed with, and otherwise I always buy Set boosters, with their higher likelihood of getting 2 rares, and the 25% chance of getting a List card. Streets of New Capenna is more likely to have many more prereleases and drafts fire (and Kamigawa drafts too), now that COVID restrictions are starting to be lifted (at least in my country). I don't want to draft with Set boosters, so I want them to keep printing both.
Also, nothing wrong with Collector boosters. I like to buy one or two per set for the fun of opening a bunch of cool foils and the chance at some pretty rare chase cards. Plus they have helped to reduce the price of cards in a given set, making it a lot easier to buy all the cards I need.
Be nice If the odds of pulling a List card was more than 25% in Set Boosters which is now what Wizards of the Coast / Hasbro is starting to do with Commander Pre-Con exclusives that normally would've been added to Commander Pre-Cons because they're trying to dissuade people into buying these $50+ products for one or two chase cards. It's actually kind of a smart move on their part since these cards won't affect Standard as much without going up in value because of it though I think trying to get the right balance of Standard without actually breaking the format while catering to Commander players has already been a huge challenge for Wizards of the Coast / Hasbro going forward.
"Restriction breeds creativity." - Sheldon Menery on EDH / Commander in Magic: The Gathering
"Cancel Culture is the real reason why everyone's not allowed to have nice things anymore." - Anonymous
"For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?" - Mark 8:36
"Most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution." - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
"Every life decision is always a risk / reward proposition." - Sanjay Gupta
CLB is getting 4 decks, not 2 and it doesn't include any of the Alchemy sets (Alchemy: Innistrad, Alchemy: Kamigawa, Alchemy: New Capenna, Alchemy Horizons: Baldur's Gate, Alchemy: Dominaria United, and finally Alchemy: Brothers War.
EDIT: Also, as a rule of thumb, I only list printed product, because adding in digital goods would have made everything even worse on a tracking level (going through each individual update for MTGA, double checking every release on MTGO, and the seeing what correlates with printed product to see what can be coalesced, it's just...too much)
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