The problem here seems to be that WoTC has too many formats to support.
Bingo. With less formats to support for Paper Magic that actually helps alleviate the financial paywall for formats where their barrier to entry makes it almost impossible to keep up with like Commander and Modern. $400+ mana bases to actually play the game on a consistent level? No thank you. As a matter of fact Wizards of the Coast / Hasbro NEEDS to officially discontinue Legacy and Vintage leaving ONLY Standard, Modern, Pioneer, and most importantly Commander as the officially legal formats of Paper Magic.
I don't care If the Old School Magic 93/94 format players whine and complain that their Reserve List collection went down in price. Magic: The Gathering wasn't specifically designed to be based on a societal class warfare system between the poor, middle class, and rich. As for the Whales and Resellers, you're part of the problem and not the solution by hoarding product that you refuse to dump inventory into the Secondary Market to help make Paper Magic more playable but I get that you need to turn a profit to stick it to Wizards of the Coast / Hasbro when you're really hurting Local Game Stores (LGSs).
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Vintage, Modern, Extended (a 4 year Standard) and Standard (at 2 years) plus Commander. That's it, No Legacy, No Pioneer, No Pauper, No nothing else supported. Just my opinion.
This would be with a robust ban schedule (and hopefully restrictions) as well.
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The only formats that actually do receive restrictions over bans are Legacy and Vintage which are out of most players' price range yet for some reason they don't feel the need to enforce this for other formats with the exception of Commander since it's Singleton in which can only be answered with bans.
Since when Legacy restrict cards over bans? Vintage is literally the only format that does that.
Didn't companions kind of make a restricted card effectively like Lurrus of the Dream-Den?
I wonder if companions were testing the waters for it in the future.
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The only formats that actually do receive restrictions over bans are Legacy and Vintage which are out of most players' price range yet for some reason they don't feel the need to enforce this for other formats with the exception of Commander since it's Singleton in which can only be answered with bans.
Since when Legacy restrict cards over bans? Vintage is literally the only format that does that.
Didn't companions kind of make a restricted card effectively like Lurrus of the Dream-Den?
I wonder if companions were testing the waters for it in the future.
Fun fact. Did you know that the Companion mechanic from Ikoria was actually based on a failed Magic design concept from Tempest by Mark Rosewater that allowed you to choose to start the game with a card in your opening hand and If you chose to do so you had to begin the game with one card fewer? Rosewater claims that the cards were weaker than normal so you were opting to start with cards that were of lower power level. So this would be specially marked cards that you could start with automatically in your opening hand. Unfortunately Wizards of the Coast / Hasbro thought it was a good idea to have two young interns to playtest this who are brand new to the company. Rosewater asks the playtesters to play in a room with a one-way mirror so he could secretly observe. Next day after playtesting, Mark Rosewater awoke to see a reversed message written in lipstick on the one-way mirror where it read in all caps, "DECK VARIANCE IS THE LIFEBLOOD OF THE GAME AND UNDERCUTTING IT WITH THIS MECHANIC HAS LED TO THE MOST UNFUN PLAYTEST GAMES WE HAVE EVER PLAYED. IF THIS IS THE FUTURE OF MAGIC DESIGN WE WANT NOTHING TO DO WITH IT." These interns were gone and haven't been seen since.
Rosewater took the mechanic out of the games' files and never talked about it again until Ikoria came along and that failed Magic design concept from Tempest actually became the Companion mechanic where it doesn't have the one card penalty and doesn't put it in your opening hand so that you can't force someone to discard it. In regards to the original failed Magic design concept from Tempest which Companion was based on, specially marked cards that were of low power you could automatically start with in your opening hand which allowed you to start with an eighth card guaranteed which would be insane then you as a penalty would HAVE to start the game with six total cards instead of seven. STILL the two interns playtesting literally quit their jobs because it was so terrible it's quote "The most unfun playtest games they have EVER played" and they basically gave up on Mark Rosewater, gave up on the game, gave up on their jobs and quit. Variance and unpredictably is FUN and it makes it so that you at least have interesting interactive back-and-forth gameplay and your opponent has fun even If they're losing. Rosewater actually posted an article on the Mothership explaining this If you want to read it for yourself:
"Cancel Culture is the real reason why everyone's not allowed to have nice things anymore." - Anonymous
"For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?" - Mark 8:36
"Most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution." - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
"Every life decision is always a risk / reward proposition." - Sanjay Gupta
The only formats that actually do receive restrictions over bans are Legacy and Vintage which are out of most players' price range yet for some reason they don't feel the need to enforce this for other formats with the exception of Commander since it's Singleton in which can only be answered with bans.
Since when Legacy restrict cards over bans? Vintage is literally the only format that does that.
Didn't companions kind of make a restricted card effectively like Lurrus of the Dream-Den?
I wonder if companions were testing the waters for it in the future.
Fun fact. Did you know that the Companion mechanic from Ikoria was actually based on a failed Magic design concept from Tempest by Mark Rosewater that allowed you to choose to start the game with a card in your opening hand and If you chose to do so you had to begin the game with one card fewer? Rosewater claims that the cards were weaker than normal so you were opting to start with cards that were of lower power level. So this would be specially marked cards that you could start with automatically in your opening hand. Unfortunately Wizards of the Coast / Hasbro thought it was a good idea to have two young interns to playtest this who are brand new to the company. Rosewater asks the playtesters to play in a room with a one-way mirror so he could secretly observe. Next day after playtesting, Mark Rosewater awoke to see a reversed message written in lipstick on the one-way mirror where it read in all caps, "DECK VARIANCE IS THE LIFEBLOOD OF THE GAME AND UNDERCUTTING IT WITH THIS MECHANIC HAS LED TO THE MOST UNFUN PLAYTEST GAMES WE HAVE EVER PLAYED. IF THIS IS THE FUTURE OF MAGIC DESIGN WE WANT NOTHING TO DO WITH IT." These interns were gone and haven't been seen since.
Rosewater took the mechanic out of the games' files and never talked about it again until Ikoria came along and that failed Magic design concept from Tempest actually became the Companion mechanic where it doesn't have the one card penalty and doesn't put it in your opening hand so that you can't force someone to discard it. In regards to the original failed Magic design concept from Tempest which Companion was based on, specially marked cards that were of low power you could automatically start with in your opening hand which allowed you to start with an eighth card guaranteed which would be insane then you as a penalty would HAVE to start the game with six total cards instead of seven. STILL the two interns playtesting literally quit their jobs because it was so terrible it's quote "The most unfun playtest games they have EVER played" and they basically gave up on Mark Rosewater, gave up on the game, gave up on their jobs and quit. Variance and unpredictably is FUN and it makes it so that you at least have interesting interactive back-and-forth gameplay and your opponent has fun even If they're losing. Rosewater actually posted an article on the Mothership explaining this If you want to read it for yourself:
The United States Federal Reserve posted a recent news article stating that consumer spending in collectible hobbies have actually declined by 5% due to high inflation rates. How does this affect Paper Standard in Magic: The Gathering? Well players are having to spend less because since the U.S. economy right now is worse than what it was during the Great Recession back in 2008, people are looking to spend their money on essential goods and just to survive day-to-day life. The COVID-19 Lockdowns in the last 3 years were just a dress rehearsal for what we're dealing with right now except people can still socialize out in public without having to social distance again...at least for now anyway. What the News Media won't tell us is that the pandemic is still going on even when they're blatantly lying to us that it's "officially ended".
Wizards of the Coast / Hasbro has actually "weaponized" the pandemic in such a way that they're literally refusing to host official Paper Standard events for Local Game Stores (LGSs) even If they're a part of the WPN program which is ironically making it harder to boycott directly from Wizards of the Coast / Hasbro. That or there's no one willing to play In-Person when Arena is still a viable alternative for a less desirable experience unless you prefer to play Commander In-Person. People play Commander at Local Game Stores (LGSs) because they don't want to subscribe to Wizards of the Coast / Hasbro's push for digital only with Arena. I'm really convinced at this point that they view the Local Game Store (LGS) as a hindrance to Magic itself and wants to get rid of the social stigma involved with playing In-Person when that's what the game was initially built around in the first place.
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I don't care If the Old School Magic 93/94 format players whine and complain that their Reserve List collection went down in price. Magic: The Gathering wasn't specifically designed to be based on a societal class warfare system between the poor, middle class, and rich. As for the Whales and Resellers, you're part of the problem and not the solution by hoarding product that you refuse to dump inventory into the Secondary Market to help make Paper Magic more playable but I get that you need to turn a profit to stick it to Wizards of the Coast / Hasbro when you're really hurting Local Game Stores (LGSs).
"Cancel Culture is the real reason why everyone's not allowed to have nice things anymore." - Anonymous
"For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?" - Mark 8:36
"Most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution." - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
"Every life decision is always a risk / reward proposition." - Sanjay Gupta
Vintage, Modern, Extended (a 4 year Standard) and Standard (at 2 years) plus Commander. That's it, No Legacy, No Pioneer, No Pauper, No nothing else supported. Just my opinion.
This would be with a robust ban schedule (and hopefully restrictions) as well.
STOP using "dude/bro" as a pejorative or insult. Grow up.
Margaret Thatcher: “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.”
Benjamin Franklin: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
Martin Luther King Jr.: "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
Didn't companions kind of make a restricted card effectively like Lurrus of the Dream-Den?
I wonder if companions were testing the waters for it in the future.
pucatrade
big receipts
alpha mox emerald
beta time walk
4 goyfs received
3 liliana of the veil
4 karn liberated
3 force of will
4 grove of the burnwillows
snapcaster mage
3 horizon canopy
2 full art damnation
Rosewater took the mechanic out of the games' files and never talked about it again until Ikoria came along and that failed Magic design concept from Tempest actually became the Companion mechanic where it doesn't have the one card penalty and doesn't put it in your opening hand so that you can't force someone to discard it. In regards to the original failed Magic design concept from Tempest which Companion was based on, specially marked cards that were of low power you could automatically start with in your opening hand which allowed you to start with an eighth card guaranteed which would be insane then you as a penalty would HAVE to start the game with six total cards instead of seven. STILL the two interns playtesting literally quit their jobs because it was so terrible it's quote "The most unfun playtest games they have EVER played" and they basically gave up on Mark Rosewater, gave up on the game, gave up on their jobs and quit. Variance and unpredictably is FUN and it makes it so that you at least have interesting interactive back-and-forth gameplay and your opponent has fun even If they're losing. Rosewater actually posted an article on the Mothership explaining this If you want to read it for yourself:
https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/making-magic/topical-blend-did-you-hear-one-about-2015-12-07-0
"Cancel Culture is the real reason why everyone's not allowed to have nice things anymore." - Anonymous
"For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?" - Mark 8:36
"Most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution." - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
"Every life decision is always a risk / reward proposition." - Sanjay Gupta
I would take that article with a massive grain of salt - later in it, Aaron Forsythe has Ken Nagle kidnapped.
Wizards of the Coast / Hasbro has actually "weaponized" the pandemic in such a way that they're literally refusing to host official Paper Standard events for Local Game Stores (LGSs) even If they're a part of the WPN program which is ironically making it harder to boycott directly from Wizards of the Coast / Hasbro. That or there's no one willing to play In-Person when Arena is still a viable alternative for a less desirable experience unless you prefer to play Commander In-Person. People play Commander at Local Game Stores (LGSs) because they don't want to subscribe to Wizards of the Coast / Hasbro's push for digital only with Arena. I'm really convinced at this point that they view the Local Game Store (LGS) as a hindrance to Magic itself and wants to get rid of the social stigma involved with playing In-Person when that's what the game was initially built around in the first place.
"Cancel Culture is the real reason why everyone's not allowed to have nice things anymore." - Anonymous
"For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?" - Mark 8:36
"Most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution." - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
"Every life decision is always a risk / reward proposition." - Sanjay Gupta