Today I received my Magic Player Rewards and I received a Textless Foil Lightning Bolt and 2 Textless Foil Cryptic Commands and a letter reading the following:
"Attention Magic Player Rewards recipient:
Due to the increased success of Magic: The Gathering in 2010, we do not have enough Foil Lightning Bolt MPR reward cards to completely fulfill the June 2010 Magic Player Rewards mailing.
We gave enough to ensure that each player that is due foil lightning Bolt cards receives at least 1 foil Lightning Bolt MPR reward card. If you are owed more than 1 Lightning Bolt, instead you will receive 2 foil Cryptic Command MPR rewards cards for each Lightning Bolt you should have received.
We apologize for this and assure you that we are adjusting our process to ensure that in the future you receive the correct number of cards.
Thank You,
Wizards of the Coast"
I am not sure if I am happy or dissapointed, I wanted to play with the MPR Bolts in my standard deck but now I got 2 commands, however the $$$ value of my foil MPR cards is now worth more totalled. Also on another note if they are running out couldn't they just print more?
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if they are running out couldn't they just print more?
Presumably, but the time between printing and mailing is probably too long. I guess they could have given people rainchecks and mailed the foil bolts late, but maybe they figured giving 2 foil cryptics was better. Less expense for them as well, since they must have the cryptics just sitting around in a warehouse.
WotC sent out a similar message to TO's about July's FNM Promos. Though I don't know that many people wanting the FNM Anathemancers. The art is pretty terrible.
I'm not getting any player rewards yet, but I would much rather have two Cryptics than one Bolt. I'd probably rather have one Cryptic than a Bolt, even though the bolts have really nice art.
WotC sent out a similar message to TO's about July's FNM Promos. Though I don't know that many people wanting the FNM Anathemancers. The art is pretty terrible.
As an aside, we got screwed out of our FNM promos for the month because of a mixup at wizards. By the time we noticed there was an issue, they were allready all out of their promos. Basically getting the same bit about how quickly they went out this time around and how they apologized for their mistake and promised an issue like this wouldnt happen again.
Luckily for us, we found out in enough time that I jumped online and bought up a bunch of playsets of regular foil anathemancers, so we would at least have those to hand out to our players. At least they picked a month with cheaper promos to mess up :p.
As for the lightning bolts, Its kind of crazy to think that they ran out. But at the same time, magic has been more popular than ever. Our FNM turnouts are consistently growing (currently averageing 30 on a bad week with 35-45 per week on average). Sales are up drastically on magic across the board (packs/other sealed product, and singles) so far this year. In the end though I highly doubt people will complain about the cryptics, not only are they good cards, but they are worth more individually than the bolts even are these days, and its likely to be seeing a lot of play in the new extended.
I wonder if the apparent increases in handouts of the promos (because of the increased turnouts to be able to get them) will cause some sort of change to the mpr policy (One would hope not, but you never know).
I'm extremely happy about this, and hope I get some Cryptic action. I never really liked getting a textless promo common, no matter how good it was. I'd much rather prefer the rare, especially if there are 2 of them.
Also, in new extended, Cryptic's going to be a house.
well, as long as i get my last bolt im happy. as for the cryptics, i already have a playset. so all this will do for me is give me cards that i can trade away. unfortunately there is a huge number of cryptics in my area, making them difficult to trade off. wish i could choose the wrath of god promo, since i don't have any :(.
Also a bad idea is to roast people for their opinion of the appropriateness of the post in question when your entire defense is based on your opinion of the appropriateness of the post.
Has this ever happened before to MPR cards before? Lack of supply of the foil I mean.
It happened with the original MPR foil, Wasteland in 2002.
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This is pretty disappointing to me. I was 1 event short of getting a bolt last mailing, and was looking forward to getting 2 this time around. I don't play extended, and I don't have many friends who do who don't already have playsets of textless cryptic commands. They're worthless to me as I don't play any formats where I'd want them, and I will be very likely hard-pressed to trade the pair of them for a bolt. Hopefully I'll get lucky when my mailing gets here and get my 2 bolts instead.
Well I'd rather take 1 Foil LB and 4 Cryptics than 3 bolts. They didn't send me the two foils I thought I had coming last time, but they definitely made it up this time around.
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"Attention Magic Player Rewards recipient:
Due to the increased success of Magic: The Gathering in 2010, we do not have enough Foil Lightning Bolt MPR reward cards to completely fulfill the June 2010 Magic Player Rewards mailing.
We gave enough to ensure that each player that is due foil lightning Bolt cards receives at least 1 foil Lightning Bolt MPR reward card. If you are owed more than 1 Lightning Bolt, instead you will receive 2 foil Cryptic Command MPR rewards cards for each Lightning Bolt you should have received.
We apologize for this and assure you that we are adjusting our process to ensure that in the future you receive the correct number of cards.
Thank You,
Wizards of the Coast"
I am not sure if I am happy or dissapointed, I wanted to play with the MPR Bolts in my standard deck but now I got 2 commands, however the $$$ value of my foil MPR cards is now worth more totalled. Also on another note if they are running out couldn't they just print more?
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Won't this make the foil Bolt rise in price?
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Presumably, but the time between printing and mailing is probably too long. I guess they could have given people rainchecks and mailed the foil bolts late, but maybe they figured giving 2 foil cryptics was better. Less expense for them as well, since they must have the cryptics just sitting around in a warehouse.
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Damnit. I just want 2 Cryptics . Forget the bolts!
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It doesn't cost wizards anything since they can't really do anything with those extra cryptics. So all it does is make a lot more players happy.
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As an aside, we got screwed out of our FNM promos for the month because of a mixup at wizards. By the time we noticed there was an issue, they were allready all out of their promos. Basically getting the same bit about how quickly they went out this time around and how they apologized for their mistake and promised an issue like this wouldnt happen again.
Luckily for us, we found out in enough time that I jumped online and bought up a bunch of playsets of regular foil anathemancers, so we would at least have those to hand out to our players. At least they picked a month with cheaper promos to mess up :p.
As for the lightning bolts, Its kind of crazy to think that they ran out. But at the same time, magic has been more popular than ever. Our FNM turnouts are consistently growing (currently averageing 30 on a bad week with 35-45 per week on average). Sales are up drastically on magic across the board (packs/other sealed product, and singles) so far this year. In the end though I highly doubt people will complain about the cryptics, not only are they good cards, but they are worth more individually than the bolts even are these days, and its likely to be seeing a lot of play in the new extended.
I wonder if the apparent increases in handouts of the promos (because of the increased turnouts to be able to get them) will cause some sort of change to the mpr policy (One would hope not, but you never know).
Also, in new extended, Cryptic's going to be a house.
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It happened with the original MPR foil, Wasteland in 2002.
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