So 60 card precons aimed at new players is dead. Who knows when we will ever get under $15 60 card precons focusing on themes and mechanics from the latest sets ever again.
I'm pretty sure it's just dead and there's no realistic way to produce and market it profitably. I can certainly understand your frustration, but 60 card casual precons has numerous problems. The normal 4 of rule pulls in multiple directions. It's extremely unfun for diversity UNLESS you have a unique, irreplacable effect the deck has to have to function. Other decks having multiples of more powerful cards make the precon garbage, though. You also can't print multiples of highly desirable cards for other formats because it either leads to scalping or destroys the secondary market value of the good cards. Pokemon also did the 60 card casual precon format online. You could play precon vs precon without the issue of having a very limited number of decks per set. People lost interest and the format was scrapped for the same issue competitive formats have. It led to people just playing the couple teir precons over and over again. What they can realistically do is commander precons and sets like jumpstart. Jumpstart has the kind of thing you're looking for. It has hundreds of potential 40 card precons per release, can make new cards without flooding the market, and you can even print desirable chase cards. Commander is an actual precon, can print format staples because people maintain a whole collection of decks, is automatically limited to `1 copy per card, and solves the unique, irreplacable card problem with its commander that you pretty much always have access to. The reason commander replaced you preferred precons isn't because wizards game sucks. It's because commander, by its very format design fixes all the problems with normal precons simply based on the way the format naturally works. If commander were invented in the beginning, 60 card casual precon never would have existed to begin with because it was flawed from the beginning and destined for failure. I've been playing for decades and every set, unless a 60 card precon gets scalped for parts, none of them ever sold like the low end of commander precons. It's just a naturally superior model to theme decks, intro decks, duel decks, clash packs, or box sets like game night or archenemy. Wizards tried a bunch of different things including precon league style play at game stores that no one was ever interested in at any store I ever went to. Sometimes you just have to face facts that exactly what you want is just not popular or profitable.
Nah man, I am going to fight it just like, back when Wolfenstein Enemy Territory was a thing, I am going to fight the fact that people there would rather use ETpub, No Quarter, or Jaymod instead of ETmain.
I would love a Temur Energy commander. I came back to magic during that time and loved playing that deck, so it would be sick if it was possible to build a commander deck that could mimic it.
Malestrom Wanderer is my suggestion. I run a nostalgic 60-card Temur energy deck that he's absolutely nutter-butters in.
Pretty cool idea, but are you allowed to have a 60 card deck in Commander?
What's Commander? I run 4x Wanderers in it. Quite fun. (more fun than Commander anyway but I know that's a minority opinion.)
Arguments about 60 card casual vs commander precons aside, I'm pretty dismayed they're doing another round of 4 decks right after strixhaven's 5. Assuming they're $40 again, this will be a massive strain on the wallet trying to keeping up with 3 constructed sets (strix, MH2, ARF), plus an annual commander release (C21), plus another annual commander-sized release.
I wish they'd stick a bit closer to the release + 2 $20 commander deck model. Those commander decks, IMO, have been exceptional products in terms of value and deck quality. Zendikar and Kaldheim's were really well designed.
Arguments about 60 card casual vs commander precons aside, I'm pretty dismayed they're doing another round of 4 decks right after strixhaven's 5. Assuming they're $40 again, this will be a massive strain on the wallet trying to keeping up with 3 constructed sets (strix, MH2, ARF), plus an annual commander release (C21), plus another annual commander-sized release.
The release schedule the past 1 1/2 to 2 years has become a sprint for WotC and it's part of the reason I'm far less excited about Magic than ever. Can't appreciate much when we're already in spoiler season for the next 2 sets, 3 products and 5+ secret lairs.
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Nah man, I am going to fight it just like, back when Wolfenstein Enemy Territory was a thing, I am going to fight the fact that people there would rather use ETpub, No Quarter, or Jaymod instead of ETmain.
What's Commander? I run 4x Wanderers in it. Quite fun. (more fun than Commander anyway but I know that's a minority opinion.)
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I wish they'd stick a bit closer to the release + 2 $20 commander deck model. Those commander decks, IMO, have been exceptional products in terms of value and deck quality. Zendikar and Kaldheim's were really well designed.
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The release schedule the past 1 1/2 to 2 years has become a sprint for WotC and it's part of the reason I'm far less excited about Magic than ever. Can't appreciate much when we're already in spoiler season for the next 2 sets, 3 products and 5+ secret lairs.