Anyone who feels like they are being guilt tripped by Josephine Ciendeilio obviously harbors guilt in themselves and didn't wish to be reminded of it.
How many of this product were sold?
What is the reception to it?
If the product doesn't sell well, the company adapts and changes tactics.
If the reception is not postitive for a product, then the company will adapt and not make that product for awhile, possibly never.
Now there are obviously other reasons and it will be listed soon after. But what is being called a guilt trip is simply how businesses work.
Your favorite game/movie that hasn't gotten a sequel? Poor sales, mixed reception, shelving, laziness, mergers, liquidations, considered unnecessary, downsizing studios.
The yearly video game you might be sick of seeing gets made over and over? It sells very well, has mostly positive reception, is seen as a profitable and stable for future endeavors.
However, we are discussing something that doesn't need to be a thought experiment. You can use logic to acknowledge that the field you are playing in has determining factors that increase the weight of certain probabilities more than others. For example, businesses operating for profit with concrete evidence that dragons are highly popular and in high demand. That lends additional weight to the probability of dragons being printed. A less common and less consistently popular, albeit popular in its own right, creature type such as Myr would logically be in less demand and produce less profit.
You can absolutely weigh expectations in this scenario.
Alright. So dragons are a possibility but monkeys are an impossibility?
Monkeys would require many new cards printed..many many many.
Well if my math is right each deck gets about 14 new cards.
However, we are discussing something that doesn't need to be a thought experiment. You can use logic to acknowledge that the field you are playing in has determining factors that increase the weight of certain probabilities more than others. For example, businesses operating for profit with concrete evidence that dragons are highly popular and in high demand. That lends additional weight to the probability of dragons being printed. A less common and less consistently popular, albeit popular in its own right, creature type such as Myr would logically be in less demand and produce less profit.
You can absolutely weigh expectations in this scenario.
Alright. So dragons are a possibility but monkeys are an impossibility?
However, we are discussing something that doesn't need to be a thought experiment. You can use logic to acknowledge that the field you are playing in has determining factors that increase the weight of certain probabilities more than others. For example, businesses operating for profit with concrete evidence that dragons are highly popular and in high demand. That lends additional weight to the probability of dragons being printed. A less common and less consistently popular, albeit popular in its own right, creature type such as Myr would logically be in less demand and produce less profit.
You can absolutely weigh expectations in this scenario.
Alright. So dragons are a possibility but monkeys are an impossibility?
I feel one of MTG's core problems is that it seems to have the equivalent of ADHD. It can never sit and focus on one plane for more than a single block. But whats that? The point of the game is that we travel the multiverse? Quite so. However we can never have a breather. Off to the next plane with a major disaster about to conveniently occur on its door step. We can't have a follow-up block to find out what happens next and instead got to wait 4+ years for that to happen. Like after almost 10 years I just want to revisit Lorwyn and find out what happened next on the plane and what has changed once both the Day & Night halves have been merged. But nope, got to travel anywhere but Lorwyn.
How amusing it is. That a foreign plane, the equivalent of traveling to another planet and the visitors are befuddled how alien it is to them. Such strange customs and people this culture has. Said plane is Kamigawa. The unfamiliarity must be toned down with future planes so that the average visitor can feel right at home with it. Yet another TCG, Legend of the Five Rings, does the same sort of culture and earlier than MTG no less and is able to tell twenty years worth of story on what amounts to a single plane. In a top down fashion no less. How curious.
Standard has suffered due to these changes, specifically of the removal of the core set. This is an indisputable fact. Smash to Smithereens for a time was in standard, yet nothing replaced it, not even a Shatter.
Worse yet, we had weaker cards reprinted in place of others such as Caustic Caterpillar being replaced by Ruinous Gremlin. As somehow having one more power and being more narrow in its destruction is enough to warrant an increase to activation cost.
Apparently WotC needs to be handed a laundry list of mandatory cards they need to reprint every so often in order to make sure their flagship, Standard, doesn't sink. As they very much spaced off and forgot to include quite a few such cards.
Also, I think my combo is the most compact so far, but it's entirely possible I'm missing a refutation. Certainly wouldn't be the first time...
Does it actually refute though? What actual synergy does the Squirrel Nest have with the Mentor? As if the subject matter was Throne of the God-Pharaoh you would be 100% correct.
I will concur however yours is more compact, 5 cards with a 10 total cmc.
If the reception is not postitive for a product, then the company will adapt and not make that product for awhile, possibly never.
Now there are obviously other reasons and it will be listed soon after. But what is being called a guilt trip is simply how businesses work.
Your favorite game/movie that hasn't gotten a sequel? Poor sales, mixed reception, shelving, laziness, mergers, liquidations, considered unnecessary, downsizing studios.
The yearly video game you might be sick of seeing gets made over and over? It sells very well, has mostly positive reception, is seen as a profitable and stable for future endeavors.
Standard has suffered due to these changes, specifically of the removal of the core set. This is an indisputable fact. Smash to Smithereens for a time was in standard, yet nothing replaced it, not even a Shatter.
Worse yet, we had weaker cards reprinted in place of others such as Caustic Caterpillar being replaced by Ruinous Gremlin. As somehow having one more power and being more narrow in its destruction is enough to warrant an increase to activation cost.
Apparently WotC needs to be handed a laundry list of mandatory cards they need to reprint every so often in order to make sure their flagship, Standard, doesn't sink. As they very much spaced off and forgot to include quite a few such cards.
I will concur however yours is more compact, 5 cards with a 10 total cmc.
I'm quite overjoyed as I been waiting for quite some time, almost 7 years, since Reassembling Skeleton was initially released.