No competition could mean higher prices, but it could also mean lower prices. CFB won't have to jockey for GPs and can streamline their process to optimize performance. WOTC doesn't have to focus on coordinating with a dozen different groups, which will help keep the communication and efforts to a minimum as everyone will become familiar with the process. Ultimately, the goal should be to minimize overhead to help maximize profits while at the same time keeping the cost barrier for players low. If done right, GPs will become more popular, allowing pricing to stay low. If done poorly, GP attendance will waiver and costs will go up. Ultimately, how CFB and WOTC manage this system going forward can have a huge impact on the GP market, and I expect them to work to keep costs low, knowing that's better for everyone.
It's not better for CFB to keep costs low. Their best move is to price the events as high as the market will bear in order to maximize profits. Because that's what private corporations do. And that's what I fully expect CFB to do.
The problem is that is that you push players away. I think the greed is just too much.
In 2012, it was 40$ canadian, you got 6 packs, a playmat, entry to the event and a promo.
Now for 80$ US you don't even get an entry to the main event, a promo and that's about it. Sometimes they try to make a promo pen and paper worth it. It's just sooooo bad. To get the playmat, you need to pay more when it used to be free. Like, really!?!?!
I hope CFB isn't too greedy. I've been wanting to get my fix of tournament level play, but good lord is it expensive.
What I fear happens: Wizards transitions MTG to an online-only game and abandons the physical entirely, introducing tons of RNG effects that no one likes except their inbred focus groups.
That would certainly be a worst-case scenario. The real losers in that situation would be the LGS locations with which the company has established relationships. For all of their mistakes over the years, I'm optimistic enough to think that the company would not dare to abandon those stores and the culture that surrounds them just to tap the digital market. Forget current issues with format balancing and the direction of design, the backlash from that mistake would destroy the game as we know it.
I have to agree that such a move would completely kill the game. Especially considering that casual players are not the ones that would necessarily transition to the digital product and it basically will kill all confidence player have for the company. I was also fearing this not too long ago. If anything, they should do like pokemon and include codes in their packs. Or even if it were 1 pack = 1 ticket, it would be fine. It could potentially even boost physical pack sales even more.
Can....can we please just get Player Rewards back? Please?
This. I never understood why it was stripped. I was really counting my attendance to get my rewards! I was also invested in multiple formats. Now, I only care about draft and modern.
This would be meh after pusing modern so much in the last few years with Modern Masters series and Modern reprints here and there in standard sets.
The fun part of modern is the power lever. That's why it's so fun, but the power lever comes with the possibility of reprinting everything in the format unlike Legacy, which is why the format has gotten a lot of love since it's inception.
I say push Modern more. Standard as is is the format for a less powerful format.
I definitely expected some bans. In my local store (which is a pretty big one) we've been playing 20-life DC for about a month or so, and let me tell you, 20 life don't fit this format at all. I would've gone with 25, which is a good compromise. Now decks like Zurgo, Anafenza and (the worst offender) Geist are the name of my meta and I soon predict they'll be the name of any semidecent tournament, that's why I was expecting for at least one of them (heck, maybe the whole three of them) to get the axe. Welp, time to switch to Leviathan, fracturing even more an already niche playerbase.
I'm with you on this one. I feel by spreading accross the board with so many subformats it is hurting the overall quality of what EDH/Commander is!
All these changements don't make any sense to me, they're far too aggressive. Is it still Commander or are they trying to make it a Canadian Highlander variant? Because that's what I see month after month. With this announcement they're basically saying "do you like to do Vintage/Legacy powerful things in your Commander game? Now feel free to do it!", but that's not remotely Commander anymore, not even 1vs1.
In my opinion, if the commitee doesn't find a less aggressive way to place the format in between multiplayer Commander and Canadian Highlander, swinging the pendulum a bit back, the format is simply going to die: people will just go with the multiplayer banlist, maybe with some little adjustments to fast mana, and ignore the french committee. There are so many Commanders that become totally unplayable now from a strategical point of view...
I believe that the problem is that this is made by another group than the classic EDH format where it begun. A distinct entity from the OG EDH format (http://mtgcommander.net/rules.php)
I also agree that this is trying to change what the format is all about. 20 life is not for this format.
I really love that art for Emrakul and don't find it's that bad of a choice! Would definately love a copy for a Modern Jeskai deck.
As for Progenitus... it feels so meh. It could of at least been new art, but this promo gives 1 less reason to pay 70$ for GP. Ugh. GPs are just not that attracting to get into with these prices. I remember when I came back to magic a few years back and they were 40$. I was hesitant to play in them despite the promo, limited packs and playmat.Now, it just feels like a complete rip off. WOTC really needs to do something about this.
They volunteered. They knew the circumstances going in. Its not like you cant ask other judges what its like or do research. But now somehow its all "unfair".
Again, it is literally illegal to volunteer for Wizards of the Coast/Hasbro. The only exception to this rule is that one is allowed to volunteer for public sector companies provided that the volunteer work performed has no relation to the work of the regular job within the company.
Also, the "class" being represented in this suit is Level 2 and above, so Wizards' attempt to distance themselves from the judges rings false especially considering the extremely draconian response to leakgate (Leakghazi?)
I live in Quebec, so we do not have a Common law system, but a Civil law. But with this logic then, would that mean that having an unpaid internship in a private company equate to being illegal as it is somewhat being a volunteer to ''work for free''. Would this apply to an unpaid internship credited in a school porogram? Same question but if it weren't credited?
The problem is that is that you push players away. I think the greed is just too much.
In 2012, it was 40$ canadian, you got 6 packs, a playmat, entry to the event and a promo.
Now for 80$ US you don't even get an entry to the main event, a promo and that's about it. Sometimes they try to make a promo pen and paper worth it. It's just sooooo bad. To get the playmat, you need to pay more when it used to be free. Like, really!?!?!
I hope CFB isn't too greedy. I've been wanting to get my fix of tournament level play, but good lord is it expensive.
I have to agree that such a move would completely kill the game. Especially considering that casual players are not the ones that would necessarily transition to the digital product and it basically will kill all confidence player have for the company. I was also fearing this not too long ago. If anything, they should do like pokemon and include codes in their packs. Or even if it were 1 pack = 1 ticket, it would be fine. It could potentially even boost physical pack sales even more.
This. I never understood why it was stripped. I was really counting my attendance to get my rewards! I was also invested in multiple formats. Now, I only care about draft and modern.
The fun part of modern is the power lever. That's why it's so fun, but the power lever comes with the possibility of reprinting everything in the format unlike Legacy, which is why the format has gotten a lot of love since it's inception.
I say push Modern more. Standard as is is the format for a less powerful format.
I'm with you on this one. I feel by spreading accross the board with so many subformats it is hurting the overall quality of what EDH/Commander is!
I believe that the problem is that this is made by another group than the classic EDH format where it begun. A distinct entity from the OG EDH format (http://mtgcommander.net/rules.php)
I also agree that this is trying to change what the format is all about. 20 life is not for this format.
http://www.duelcommander.com/2016/11/classic-november-2016-rules-banlist-update/
What does everyone think?
As for Progenitus... it feels so meh. It could of at least been new art, but this promo gives 1 less reason to pay 70$ for GP. Ugh. GPs are just not that attracting to get into with these prices. I remember when I came back to magic a few years back and they were 40$. I was hesitant to play in them despite the promo, limited packs and playmat.Now, it just feels like a complete rip off. WOTC really needs to do something about this.
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I live in Quebec, so we do not have a Common law system, but a Civil law. But with this logic then, would that mean that having an unpaid internship in a private company equate to being illegal as it is somewhat being a volunteer to ''work for free''. Would this apply to an unpaid internship credited in a school porogram? Same question but if it weren't credited?
I am at my LGS and this happened
Player A plays kolaghan's command and targets Spellskite with the destroy target artifact mode and targets another of player B's creatures.
Can player B redirect to Spellskite the 2 damage?