I'm not saying that no one cares about standard, but locally, there is definitely a decline in the standard population. Like most standard events are dificult to fire off at 8 players right now.
I have to wonder where you live. I live in the Phoenix, AZ area. There are 8-10 game stores in this area. Everyone one of them gets 20 people or more for FNM more or less every week, and the 3 biggest stores typically get 40+.
Standard is completely alive and well, and always will be, even if the format right now kind of sucks.
I think it's too early to throw in the towel for Modern. The notion that they're not having a Modern PT format because those 'unnamed' limited events are all Modern Masters 2 makes a ton of sense.
And if this results in Modern prices dipping a little bit, that means that some more players can get into it, and maybe get qualified for whenever the next Modern PT ends up being.
Being all in on Fries in this analogy would like be supporting Legacy and Modern, you know, the formats that don't actually make them money? It makes sense for Wizards to advertise the formats that make them the most money every year.
I'm not saying that no one cares about standard, but locally, there is definitely a decline in the standard population. Like most standard events are dificult to fire off at 8 players right now.
I have to wonder where you live. I live in the Phoenix, AZ area. There are 8-10 game stores in this area. Everyone one of them gets 20 people or more for FNM more or less every week, and the 3 biggest stores typically get 40+.
Standard is completely alive and well, and always will be, even if the format right now kind of sucks.
I think it's too early to throw in the towel for Modern. The notion that they're not having a Modern PT format because those 'unnamed' limited events are all Modern Masters 2 makes a ton of sense.
And if this results in Modern prices dipping a little bit, that means that some more players can get into it, and maybe get qualified for whenever the next Modern PT ends up being.
I live in Utah. I have only seen 20+ players at a Modern Tournament, and maybe on Game Day for new sets. I have noticed Standard Tournaments on the decline in my area after the Theros Block had come out. In my area at least everyone is looking to play competitively, and Modern brings the best out of everyone in my area. Some areas play certain formats better than others and vice versa.
Pro tours have zero effect on the price or Wizards profit based on card sales. A pro tour being standard only effects prices of cards because pros tend to break them at pro tours for the first time. Modern isn't dead because of this, it died because of the lack of a PTQ Modern Season. Wizards barely stands to profit from whatever format the Pro Tour is, because 300-500 people for one tournament don't effect sales in the slightest.
I'm not sure how the death of a format comes from the Pro Tour not doing Modern for one year, especially since next year has more modern GP's than last year (8 is greater than 6). The only thing the pro tour does is cause price spikes in cards as people go "OMG Mono-Blue Devotion is a COOL deck I need the cards!!!!" for instance after pro tour Theros.
You know, these are my thoughts exactly. PTs rotate for something every year if I'm correct. And to me, who cares what the 'pros' are playing? I rather enjoy playing whatever I want anytime I like. Of course, I could just be talking crazy and I don't know it. But quite frankly, I don't care.
Okay, so... Wizards claims that their lack of Legacy support is due to the scarcity of older staples outside of the U.S., yet 2 of the 3 Legacy GPs in 2015 are going to be held outside of North America...?
Am I missing something?
The problem with defining this format by what is "fun" is that everyone seems to define fun as what they don't lose to. If you keep losing to easily answered cards, that means you should improve your deck. If you don't want to improve your deck, then you should come to peace with the idea that you are going to lose because you chose to not interact with better strategies.
I can understand getting rid of Block since it just isn't played anywhere else. Then again, that was part of the appeal to me.
I'm a little more surprised by getting rid of Modern, but it makes sense from a business standpoint to focus on sets that are currently selling. Also, pros tend to have significantly less success with Modern than with Standard or Block, so maybe they wanted Pro Tours with more pros in them.
All I hope is that this means they are expecting the next Standard to be very varied with each set keeping it fresh and interesting. If that is indeed what happens, then I am perfectly fine with this change. If it is like Theros Standard though, then this will be a long year...
Simple solution: Ban Fetchs. Suddenly Modern actually plays differently than Legacy, and people don't start with 16 or 17 life.
If you think that Modern and legacy play similar than you are ABSOLUTELY WRONG fetches are not the problem in modern and you can even play a deck without fetches - affinity.
Simple solution: Ban Fetchs. Suddenly Modern actually plays differently than Legacy, and people don't start with 16 or 17 life.
If you think that Modern and legacy play similar than you are ABSOLUTELY WRONG fetches are not the problem in modern and you can even play a deck without fetches - affinity.
Not even worth responding to comments like that Frodo. Just total nonsense.
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Ohh good, it only took three pages to see a comment about banning fetchlands.
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So Modern isn't a good PT format because it doesn't show off newer sets.
So a little recap, they said Theros has Modern in mind. Then they proceed to release probably one
of the most disappointing blocks ever, and now they are complaining that nobody shows off their coolio cards. This isn't like your kids' crappy art drawings that you pin on the fridge to make them feel good. If you want Modern to show off newer sets, print stuff that will actually affects Modern. This doesn't necessarily mean stuff like Deathrite Shaman, but at least put some effort into it.
I'm not saying that no one cares about standard, but locally, there is definitely a decline in the standard population. Like most standard events are dificult to fire off at 8 players right now.
Definitely not the norm. Standard is by far the most popular tournament format. Look at the SCG opens for examples- the standard opens are far larger than the legacy and modern tournaments. I do understand that standard has been very unpopular for the past year, and maybe wizards doesn't get why. Perhaps they think that the format got stale because there wasn't enough pro tour innovation? Regardless, the future of modern looks bleak w/o some kind of boost. There are 2 shops locally where modern is played once a week, neither one can always gather 8 to sanction, and some of the players play in both shops. With the modern pro tour removed from the schedule, no formats announced for World Cup or World Champs (hate these names), and no more modern season for PTQs; I have to wonder what they gave up on modern. I get that there are 2 more modern GPs, but GPs are not the premier magic tournaments. There are almost certainly going to be far fewer modern PreTQs than there were PTQs this season not to mention that while PreTQ formats are chosen by the hosting store, regional PTQs are all the same set format, and I would be surprised if the format of the RPTQ doesn't match the pro tour it feeds, meaning they would all be standard next year.
Simple solution: Ban Fetchs. Suddenly Modern actually plays differently than Legacy, and people don't start with 16 or 17 life.
Huh? Modern and Legacy play nothing alike, if anything, modern isn't enough like legacy. Unban almost everything, give us brainstorm for the fans, and find a way to introduce FoW into the format (MM2?) to act as the police against all the degenerate combos they hate and THEN we can talk about the formats being similar...
There are almost certainly going to be far fewer modern PreTQs than there were PTQs this season not to mention that while PreTQ formats are chosen by the hosting store, regional PTQs are all the same set format, and I would be surprised if the format of the RPTQ doesn't match the pro tour it feeds, meaning they would all be standard next year.
Aaron Forsythe confirmed that one RPTQ season each year will be Modern. That may not mean much if stores can't schedule PPTQs not knowing the RPTQ format, though (since they haven't confirmed that they will announce the RPTQ format before the PPTQ scheduling window closes, and have indicated that, at least, the PPTQ window will open before the RPTQ format is known), so even stores that want their PPTQ format to match the RPTQ format may be unable to do so.
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- No more modern pro tour means less innovation for modern
- No more modern PT means less advertisement for the format, less new players wanting to get into it, less growth.
- Change in PTQ system means that there will no longer reliably be many dozens of modern PTQs with hundreds of players around the world every year, reliably, which also drums up interest for modern, innovation in decks for modern, and generally is the lifeblood of the format. Sure there will be some modern PTQs now but the new PTQs will only have less than 100 people.
- No increase in modern GPs to facilitate this combined with a 5 month gap in modern GPs, the format will basically not exist in people's minds for half the year.
- No fetches in khans because they design 2 years in advance and can't react in time to the desperate situation on the ground
Is it just me, or is this a recipe for disaster for the format? Do they actively want to shrink it? That might actually be the case. They'll throw us a lifeline with modern masters 2 in june, but that will be it.
For someone like me who's tried to promote the format by word of mouth, putting up posters, spending a lot of time and energy for this format I love, this is a big old slap in the face.
Modern won't die from this, but it will be hurt.
Maybe it is just time for Modern stop being breast fed by WoTC. Modern doesn't make any more money for WoTC than Legacy or Vintage does, it makes sense from them to support standard/limited over modern. The support of players, and store owners that love the format can support it and keep it growing like the legacy community has been doing with their beloved format for years.
I think what you will see is PTQ grinders and all the wanna-be pros will stop playing modern (for the most part) but unless I am wrong, I imagine there's a decent chunk of people that actually like modern and will want to keep playing it regardless.
Okay, so... Wizards claims that their lack of Legacy support is due to the scarcity of older staples outside of the U.S., yet 2 of the 3 Legacy GPs in 2015 are going to be held outside of North America...?
Am I missing something?
We live in a global market. This is not an issue (WoTC is crazy). Europe and Japan have huge legacy followings. They don't have anything as regular+large as the SCG circuit, but legacy events are very well attended in both continents.
- No more modern pro tour means less innovation for modern
- No more modern PT means less advertisement for the format, less new players wanting to get into it, less growth.
- Change in PTQ system means that there will no longer reliably be many dozens of modern PTQs with hundreds of players around the world every year, reliably, which also drums up interest for modern, innovation in decks for modern, and generally is the lifeblood of the format. Sure there will be some modern PTQs now but the new PTQs will only have less than 100 people.
- No increase in modern GPs to facilitate this combined with a 5 month gap in modern GPs, the format will basically not exist in people's minds for half the year.
- No fetches in khans because they design 2 years in advance and can't react in time to the desperate situation on the ground
Is it just me, or is this a recipe for disaster for the format? Do they actively want to shrink it? That might actually be the case. They'll throw us a lifeline with modern masters 2 in june, but that will be it.
For someone like me who's tried to promote the format by word of mouth, putting up posters, spending a lot of time and energy for this format I love, this is a big old slap in the face.
Modern won't die from this, but it will be hurt.
Maybe it is just time for Modern stop being breast fed by WoTC. Modern doesn't make any more money for WoTC than Legacy or Vintage does, it makes sense from them to support standard/limited over modern. The support of players, and store owners that love the format can support it and keep it growing like the legacy community has been doing with their beloved format for years.
I think what you will see is PTQ grinders and all the wanna-be pros will stop playing modern (for the most part) but unless I am wrong, I imagine there's a decent chunk of people that actually like modern and will want to keep playing it regardless.
Okay, so... Wizards claims that their lack of Legacy support is due to the scarcity of older staples outside of the U.S., yet 2 of the 3 Legacy GPs in 2015 are going to be held outside of North America...?
Am I missing something?
We live in a global market. This is not an issue (WoTC is crazy). Europe and Japan have huge legacy followings. They don't have anything as regular+large as the SCG circuit, but legacy events are very well attended in both continents.
It is a myth that modern and legacy (and even vintage) don't make money for Wizards. They make cards retain value after their standard window closing, which in turn makes people willing to buy the cards. Plus, they've already proven they can make boatloads of money through "Modern Masters", "Vintage Masters", and the Legacy Masters that will almost assuredly be coming in the future.
I agree on the Mystery weekend being 5th set (MM2 or whatever) limited.
Once they get feedback that PT Dewey is boring because it is too similar to PT Khans of Tarkir they will begin to get the hint. Follow up with PT Louie and PT M16 having the same problems we'll hopefully see a change next year.
- No more modern pro tour means less innovation for modern
- No more modern PT means less advertisement for the format, less new players wanting to get into it, less growth.
- Change in PTQ system means that there will no longer reliably be many dozens of modern PTQs with hundreds of players around the world every year, reliably, which also drums up interest for modern, innovation in decks for modern, and generally is the lifeblood of the format. Sure there will be some modern PTQs now but the new PTQs will only have less than 100 people.
- No increase in modern GPs to facilitate this combined with a 5 month gap in modern GPs, the format will basically not exist in people's minds for half the year.
- No fetches in khans because they design 2 years in advance and can't react in time to the desperate situation on the ground
Is it just me, or is this a recipe for disaster for the format? Do they actively want to shrink it? That might actually be the case. They'll throw us a lifeline with modern masters 2 in june, but that will be it.
For someone like me who's tried to promote the format by word of mouth, putting up posters, spending a lot of time and energy for this format I love, this is a big old slap in the face.
Modern won't die from this, but it will be hurt.
I agree this is a huge hit to Modern. The fact that it had 2000+ player GP's -- even with all the crying about fetchland prices from newer players -- definitely showed there was some real interest there, and they're just throwing it to the back of the bus now. I fully expect most stores to just run Standard PPTQ's to maximize attendance and their own profits, no matter the season.
I think the price of fetchlands is a red herring, it clearly wasn't hurting the format that much, and many players just kept theirs -- it was in standard just under 3 years ago, not a long time. If you had a collection to build Modern decks from, you probably already had been playing Standard since Zendikar, or you were a recent player trying to buy your way into a format all at once and that's always going to be expensive. I don't think fetches would have been a good fit in Khans as a reprint anyhow, because how many basics do you really want to play in your three color wedge decks? They would have been an ok, but not great, option. I suspect if/when they reprint them, if it's in a block set, they will do it with the return of landfall so that fetches are actually powerful.
raszero said: Why are there only standard pro tours for the next entire year?
Maro: Because we believe the Standard format leads to the best Pro Tours. Note that we are not abandoning Modern as a format and there will be many opportunities for it to be played.
I agree on the Mystery weekend being 5th set (MM2 or whatever) limited.
Once they get feedback that PT Dewey is boring because it is too similar to PT Khans of Tarkir they will begin to get the hint. Follow up with PT Louie and PT M16 having the same problems we'll hopefully see a change next year.
If people are so upset about not having a modern format to play than just don't go to the PT's anymore. Eventually as attendance plummets, wizards will realise they messed up and probably go back to the way they used to. Wizards don't care about what the customer wants because they never ask us what we want. Remember the last poll they did? How old are you and how often do you play? That doesn't tell them much, heck I would have rather had a much longer one where they ask you whether or not you like specific mechanics or if you feel theros is too weak. But no they only care about how much they sell and if they sell alot they assume they did the right thing. If you don't go to the PTs then they will assume the changes they did weren't for the better.
Attendance will not plummet. People like playing Standard too much for that to happen.
Attendance will not plummet. People like playing Standard too much for that to happen.
Thank you! This is what I was talking about!
Every format has its own quirks. PTs seem to change every year with something different each time. Modern isn't going to go anywhere, and there will be no "neo-modern" format because that would just be a dumb move on WotC part anyways.
And personally, who cares what PTs are doing? How many of you actually go to one? If you're lucky and can arrange to go 600+ miles to one, then great! Wonderful! But some of us have a life outside of cardboard crack and such. I play all the formats except vintage, who in their right mind plays vintage nowadays anyways? Thanks to the reserved list Legacy and Vintage is dying, not because of lack of support. It's lack of cards to support a format!
And then let us not forget that this is a GAME. I play to relax, and I find it rather tiring and annoying people complaining about a GAME! I let someone get under my skin because he's taking things far too seriously. I'm tired of dealing with idiots. And all it took was one person to make me want to take a break from playing standard for a while. I'll wait till rotation before I play again. I'm not going to deal with little punks that like to run their mouth and think they're better than everyone else. I'm so done with this, I come to relax and enjoy a game, not hear BS thank you very much!
For being close to the worst format Standard receives way too much support. It's everywhere, all the time. And in 2015 there will be far more of it... /throws up at the mere thought of it.
Even worse, the next year's Standard is looking to be the worst in many years (looking at Theros Block + M15), so if Khanks is not absolutely groundbreaking (very low chance) it will be a good time to take a break from following this game.
All hope in independent tournament organizers and the May 2015 set.
Remember, though, that the Pro Tour is basically a huge advertisement for the game, and Standard is a format perceived by the typical player as being both accessible and affordable, though that may not be true in the long run. What is unequivocally true, though, is that it deals with in-print sets, for the most part, meaning that WotC is making money on the format. Remember that Wizards doesn't profit on the secondary market, beyond the extent to which stores benefit from Modern events. Also note that none of us are Wizards' customers - Wizards sells to stores and to distributors, and they want to get sealed product sold because that means more profit to Wizards.
(Though I agree with your sentiment that I don't enjoy Standard much, one has to remember what Wizards is catering to. If you don't like it, my suggestion would be to win a GP and publicly boycott the Pro Tour on the grounds that you don't want to support Standard.)
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You people are crazy!! The pro tour events are standard...the PTQ season will still vary in formats.
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I have to wonder where you live. I live in the Phoenix, AZ area. There are 8-10 game stores in this area. Everyone one of them gets 20 people or more for FNM more or less every week, and the 3 biggest stores typically get 40+.
Standard is completely alive and well, and always will be, even if the format right now kind of sucks.
I think it's too early to throw in the towel for Modern. The notion that they're not having a Modern PT format because those 'unnamed' limited events are all Modern Masters 2 makes a ton of sense.
And if this results in Modern prices dipping a little bit, that means that some more players can get into it, and maybe get qualified for whenever the next Modern PT ends up being.
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I live in Utah. I have only seen 20+ players at a Modern Tournament, and maybe on Game Day for new sets. I have noticed Standard Tournaments on the decline in my area after the Theros Block had come out. In my area at least everyone is looking to play competitively, and Modern brings the best out of everyone in my area. Some areas play certain formats better than others and vice versa.
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Eh, block constructed isn't very interesting usually. Losing Modern PTs is pretty sad though.
You know, these are my thoughts exactly. PTs rotate for something every year if I'm correct. And to me, who cares what the 'pros' are playing? I rather enjoy playing whatever I want anytime I like. Of course, I could just be talking crazy and I don't know it. But quite frankly, I don't care.
Am I missing something?
I'm a little more surprised by getting rid of Modern, but it makes sense from a business standpoint to focus on sets that are currently selling. Also, pros tend to have significantly less success with Modern than with Standard or Block, so maybe they wanted Pro Tours with more pros in them.
All I hope is that this means they are expecting the next Standard to be very varied with each set keeping it fresh and interesting. If that is indeed what happens, then I am perfectly fine with this change. If it is like Theros Standard though, then this will be a long year...
If you think that Modern and legacy play similar than you are ABSOLUTELY WRONG fetches are not the problem in modern and you can even play a deck without fetches - affinity.
Not even worth responding to comments like that Frodo. Just total nonsense.
Standard: I, for one, welcome our new rhinoceros overlords
Modern: Pod's dead, Bob's back.
Legacy: Lands, Deathblade, Death and Taxes, Elves, MUD
Retired Legacy: Merfolk, Goblins, Jund, Delver, Reanimator
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So Modern isn't a good PT format because it doesn't show off newer sets.
So a little recap, they said Theros has Modern in mind. Then they proceed to release probably one
of the most disappointing blocks ever, and now they are complaining that nobody shows off their coolio cards. This isn't like your kids' crappy art drawings that you pin on the fridge to make them feel good. If you want Modern to show off newer sets, print stuff that will actually affects Modern. This doesn't necessarily mean stuff like Deathrite Shaman, but at least put some effort into it.
Definitely not the norm. Standard is by far the most popular tournament format. Look at the SCG opens for examples- the standard opens are far larger than the legacy and modern tournaments. I do understand that standard has been very unpopular for the past year, and maybe wizards doesn't get why. Perhaps they think that the format got stale because there wasn't enough pro tour innovation? Regardless, the future of modern looks bleak w/o some kind of boost. There are 2 shops locally where modern is played once a week, neither one can always gather 8 to sanction, and some of the players play in both shops. With the modern pro tour removed from the schedule, no formats announced for World Cup or World Champs (hate these names), and no more modern season for PTQs; I have to wonder what they gave up on modern. I get that there are 2 more modern GPs, but GPs are not the premier magic tournaments. There are almost certainly going to be far fewer modern PreTQs than there were PTQs this season not to mention that while PreTQ formats are chosen by the hosting store, regional PTQs are all the same set format, and I would be surprised if the format of the RPTQ doesn't match the pro tour it feeds, meaning they would all be standard next year.
Huh? Modern and Legacy play nothing alike, if anything, modern isn't enough like legacy. Unban almost everything, give us brainstorm for the fans, and find a way to introduce FoW into the format (MM2?) to act as the police against all the degenerate combos they hate and THEN we can talk about the formats being similar...
Aaron Forsythe confirmed that one RPTQ season each year will be Modern. That may not mean much if stores can't schedule PPTQs not knowing the RPTQ format, though (since they haven't confirmed that they will announce the RPTQ format before the PPTQ scheduling window closes, and have indicated that, at least, the PPTQ window will open before the RPTQ format is known), so even stores that want their PPTQ format to match the RPTQ format may be unable to do so.
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Currently solving:
Standard: Too poor for this format.
Modern: GW Auras, Living End, WB TurboFog, UB Mill, UR Storm
Legacy: R Burn, GU Infect, RG Lands, B Contamination
Maybe it is just time for Modern stop being breast fed by WoTC. Modern doesn't make any more money for WoTC than Legacy or Vintage does, it makes sense from them to support standard/limited over modern. The support of players, and store owners that love the format can support it and keep it growing like the legacy community has been doing with their beloved format for years.
I think what you will see is PTQ grinders and all the wanna-be pros will stop playing modern (for the most part) but unless I am wrong, I imagine there's a decent chunk of people that actually like modern and will want to keep playing it regardless.
We live in a global market. This is not an issue (WoTC is crazy). Europe and Japan have huge legacy followings. They don't have anything as regular+large as the SCG circuit, but legacy events are very well attended in both continents.
It is a myth that modern and legacy (and even vintage) don't make money for Wizards. They make cards retain value after their standard window closing, which in turn makes people willing to buy the cards. Plus, they've already proven they can make boatloads of money through "Modern Masters", "Vintage Masters", and the Legacy Masters that will almost assuredly be coming in the future.
Once they get feedback that PT Dewey is boring because it is too similar to PT Khans of Tarkir they will begin to get the hint. Follow up with PT Louie and PT M16 having the same problems we'll hopefully see a change next year.
I agree this is a huge hit to Modern. The fact that it had 2000+ player GP's -- even with all the crying about fetchland prices from newer players -- definitely showed there was some real interest there, and they're just throwing it to the back of the bus now. I fully expect most stores to just run Standard PPTQ's to maximize attendance and their own profits, no matter the season.
I think the price of fetchlands is a red herring, it clearly wasn't hurting the format that much, and many players just kept theirs -- it was in standard just under 3 years ago, not a long time. If you had a collection to build Modern decks from, you probably already had been playing Standard since Zendikar, or you were a recent player trying to buy your way into a format all at once and that's always going to be expensive. I don't think fetches would have been a good fit in Khans as a reprint anyhow, because how many basics do you really want to play in your three color wedge decks? They would have been an ok, but not great, option. I suspect if/when they reprint them, if it's in a block set, they will do it with the return of landfall so that fetches are actually powerful.
Attendance will not plummet. People like playing Standard too much for that to happen.
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Every format has its own quirks. PTs seem to change every year with something different each time. Modern isn't going to go anywhere, and there will be no "neo-modern" format because that would just be a dumb move on WotC part anyways.
And personally, who cares what PTs are doing? How many of you actually go to one? If you're lucky and can arrange to go 600+ miles to one, then great! Wonderful! But some of us have a life outside of cardboard crack and such. I play all the formats except vintage, who in their right mind plays vintage nowadays anyways? Thanks to the reserved list Legacy and Vintage is dying, not because of lack of support. It's lack of cards to support a format!
And then let us not forget that this is a GAME. I play to relax, and I find it rather tiring and annoying people complaining about a GAME! I let someone get under my skin because he's taking things far too seriously. I'm tired of dealing with idiots. And all it took was one person to make me want to take a break from playing standard for a while. I'll wait till rotation before I play again. I'm not going to deal with little punks that like to run their mouth and think they're better than everyone else. I'm so done with this, I come to relax and enjoy a game, not hear BS thank you very much!
Even worse, the next year's Standard is looking to be the worst in many years (looking at Theros Block + M15), so if Khanks is not absolutely groundbreaking (very low chance) it will be a good time to take a break from following this game.
All hope in independent tournament organizers and the May 2015 set.
Remember, though, that the Pro Tour is basically a huge advertisement for the game, and Standard is a format perceived by the typical player as being both accessible and affordable, though that may not be true in the long run. What is unequivocally true, though, is that it deals with in-print sets, for the most part, meaning that WotC is making money on the format. Remember that Wizards doesn't profit on the secondary market, beyond the extent to which stores benefit from Modern events. Also note that none of us are Wizards' customers - Wizards sells to stores and to distributors, and they want to get sealed product sold because that means more profit to Wizards.
(Though I agree with your sentiment that I don't enjoy Standard much, one has to remember what Wizards is catering to. If you don't like it, my suggestion would be to win a GP and publicly boycott the Pro Tour on the grounds that you don't want to support Standard.)
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