Oh, and the Japan Showcase series is also here. Meet Kaito.
Okay, some upcoming non-card news. Moving forward, MSRP is coming back for Play Boosters and Commander precons. In 2027, Standard rotation will align to the calendar year, instead of the fall set. And then there's... other news.
Another small detour with Innistrad Remastered. Edgar Markov is in the set, and is spearheading the Headliner series, where a card from the set is taken and crafted into the most collectible card on release. Like Markov, some may be serialized.
Okay, actual 2025 sets. Here's the timeline.
First off, the death race set is Aetherdrift, where ten factions (based on color pairs) race it out to gain the Aetherspark.
Here's one of the racers, Chandra, in Japan Showcase, alongside said Aetherspark. She's racing for Nissa, and winning may mean the animist can gain a new planeswalker spark.
Next, up, Tarki: Dragonstorm. No new information yet, other than there will be clans and dragons in it. Oh, and these two.
Ugin's presence is even more felt with this Ghostflame treatment, seen here and on eight other cards in the set.
Here's a sneak peek for Universes Beyond: Final Fantasy. Note that this is going to be the first Standard-legal Universes Beyond release.
Finally, Edge of Eternities is our space/science fantasy set. It takes place on the literal edge of the Blind Eternities. Have some art.
Bold of them to declare a set built entirely around this guy
I feel like making universes beyond standard legal was inevitable, probably bc people are bringing the cards to stores and finding out that the brand new set they just bought in pack form isn't allowed in fnm. Color me a universe beyond disliker (feels like an obvious means to churn out sets faster bc creative doesn't have to do as much work) but the tidus-yuna kiss card is gonna pull me in.
Also, that "msrp" panel is so funny out of context
That Edge of Eternity art looks too much sci-fi for my taste. I'd rather have something like Treasure Planet, with vessels as spaceships.
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How i feel about competitive players and casual players in EDH: The competitive are german tourists, the casual are italian tourists, both in a italian beach. The italians asking themselves "why are the germans here?" make a legitimate question, the answer is because the beach is beautiful, no matter the country you came from. The italians wanting to ban the germans are dumb, because if the germans pay for their stay and follow the rules like everyone else, they have the right to be in the beach. Hovewer, if the germans started to ask themselves "why are the italians here?"... they would be dumb as hell.
I feel like making universes beyond standard legal was inevitable, probably bc people are bringing the cards to stores and finding out that the brand new set they just bought in pack form isn't allowed in fnm.
Yeah, probably and for once i can actually see at least some upside to what they are doing there. Making their gimmick sets to work inside standard will likely somewhat cure their itch for designing cards warping eternal formats. On the other hand one can be pretty sure that at least some of the UB cards will become integral to standard finally also making that format into a blurry mess where Mickey Mouse fights flying spaghetti monsters.
I'm not entirely sure their calculation will actually work out though. I have a strong feeling that when Wizards talks about broadening the player base and "new players" they really (at least to a good amount) mean "young players" as from what i hear the average Magic player is 30+ these days and i have quite a bit of doubt adding a bunch of random IPs will change that much (well outside maybe driving out enough of the 30+ players to skew the average...). Lets face it playing Magic on a somewhat serious level is (outside maybe limited and budget standard) simply to expensive for kids. OK, it likely doesn't need the income of a 30 year old to buy a couple cards here or there, so there's probably at least a bit of room but as far as an actual "young" audience is concerned it's either the parents dropping 3 figure sums or it's not happening, which a lot of parents likely won't/can't.
Kids themselves aren't going to randomly spend $90 or by now $130 let alone $200+ on boxes and the odd booster here or there isn't going to get them far. While they might be kids a lot of them probably aren't stupid and will notice quite quickly that they are simply being outprized. If engaging new players would be actually such a main priority Wizards could have that pretty easily but it would hurt their bottom line so they won't do it.
Regarding UB... well wow I did not see that one coming. Having half of a year's releases be UB instead of IU is weird enough, but... They literally pushed Lorwyn back for a UB set.
Just think about the implication for a moment. They consider their actual product less important than crossovers.
Someone in the comment section said it nicely: "They announced the foundation of Magic's next era. It's not Magic."
If UB ends up bringing in more players than non-UB sets, how long will it be until they phase out IU sets entirely? And this is not a doomsday scenario or slippery slope argument, that's just business as usual, in the actual meaning of the word business.
Usually these panels hype me up for future releases, but this was a hype killer, wow.
Regarding UB... well wow I did not see that one coming. Having half of a year's releases be UB instead of IU is weird enough, but... They literally pushed Lorwyn back for a UB set.
Just think about the implication for a moment. They consider their actual product less important than crossovers.
Someone in the comment section said it nicely: "They announced the foundation of Magic's next era. It's not Magic."
If UB ends up bringing in more players than non-UB sets, how long will it be until they phase out IU sets entirely? And this is not a doomsday scenario or slippery slope argument, that's just business as usual, in the actual meaning of the word business.
Usually these panels hype me up for future releases, but this was a hype killer, wow.
Gotta say, I am usually way more forgiving and open to the idea of UB than others, but this absolutely feels wrong. I am ok with UB sets/stuff being side things, done in addition to the main IP (product overflow notwithstanding). And I am also fully behind being more experimental with MtG and the worlds of their own IP (as I have stated before). But replacing them entirely with UB? That's more than a few steps too far for me (granted, might be a slight bias on my part too since it starts with Final Fantasy, an IP I am already not looking forward to).
I also hate how it overshadows the Return to Tarkir and the space set, both of which I have been looking forward for a while now and seem quite intriguing to me (Ugin and the clans returning and the space set taking place at the edge of the multiverse basically are both very interesting to me).
The racing set is meh for me, wasn't really that interested in the premise in the first place, but Chandra racing to give Nissa what seems to be an artificial spark is at least an interesting hook. Would have loved to see the first look into the return to Lorwyn, but that was replaced with UB.
If the doomsayers are proven right and Magic ends its own IP entirely in the future (or almost entirely), I will be out as well, not gonna lie.
Regarding UB... well wow I did not see that one coming. Having half of a year's releases be UB instead of IU is weird enough, but... They literally pushed Lorwyn back for a UB set.
Just think about the implication for a moment. They consider their actual product less important than crossovers.
Someone in the comment section said it nicely: "They announced the foundation of Magic's next era. It's not Magic."
This is depressing. They spent 30 years building a brand only to dilute it as much as possible now. We've been waiting for a return to Lorwyn forever (16-17 years), and they bump it for an external IP? I hate it.
Funny enough, I was playing Magic last night with a bunch of my friends and having a lot of fun as always. But it now feels like we were sitting in blissful ignorance, unbeknownst to the horrors we'd wake up to lol. This is some really really sad *****...
It looks like Wizards are having a masterclass on how to water down a 30 year old beloved IP to please some Hasbro executives with short term profits.
The foundation set itself looks cool, but everything else is just ******* horrible. Maybe there's hope for Tarkir to be the only "Magic" set next year. Everything else looks ******* horrible. Sad to see my favourite plane (and what I consider one of Magic's most beautiful and original looking) Kaladesh, in this way too. I won't even begin to comment on the UB and space *****. Bloody hell man.
I've said it before and I'll say it again. It's only a matter of time before they change the back of the card to the new anemic black one.
I at least know I can prioritise whatever measly disposable income I have for guitars and cameras instead of Magic for at least a year. I'll just use what I have, only grab a couple of old singles and ignore the *****.
Someone in the comment section said it nicely: "They announced the foundation of Magic's next era. It's not Magic."
People will complain and then still buy. If not actually bully you because you don't like their *****ty UB.
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How i feel about competitive players and casual players in EDH: The competitive are german tourists, the casual are italian tourists, both in a italian beach. The italians asking themselves "why are the germans here?" make a legitimate question, the answer is because the beach is beautiful, no matter the country you came from. The italians wanting to ban the germans are dumb, because if the germans pay for their stay and follow the rules like everyone else, they have the right to be in the beach. Hovewer, if the germans started to ask themselves "why are the italians here?"... they would be dumb as hell.
I’m mostly staying out of it but look at it this way there is a bright side to this UB thing (even though it’s mostly grim for UB haters)
because of being standard legal they are now banned from ever making a card as powerful as the one ring and orchish bowmasters in UB sets. And one complaint about the Lotr set is they made it a pseudo modern horizons set.
and unpopular opinion but man I’m looking forward to the space set. I’m wondering if the whale might be a universe within version of Star whale, but could be a different whale and second is it based on the whales from treasure plant. Or is it based on the constellation of Cetus aka “the whale” in English
oh by the way I think I have are ID of three planes for aether drift set
kaladesh
Either Fiora or Amonkhet (I’m assuming Fiora because of Daretti, but it’s strange we have two visits of that plane and not only one)
and the third nevered visited but seen plane. Maro kind of goofed and mentioned something about that one that instantly gives it away from where the bug folk came from.
he said it’s a dinosaur plane so we finally after all these years going to muraganda, but this is spooky to me why do a prehistoric plane debut visit for a race set I don’t think cars are prehistoric
So 2 months is the new norm for draft formats, less since they're still doing remastered and Modern Horizons and such. Eh...
Then standard is getting larger by another 50% (assuming the number of cards per set stays about the same) and it's gonna see changes with new card 50% more often. Also eh... Trying to trust the process with the standard revitalization thing, but I don't know about this.
and the third nevered visited but seen plane. Maro kind of goofed and mentioned something about that one that instantly gives it away from where the bug folk came from.
he said it’s a dinosaur plane so we finally after all these years going to muraganda, but this is spooky to me why do a prehistoric plane debut visit for a race set I don’t think cars are prehistoric
If they waste Muraganda for that *****ty Fast&Furious set, i'm quitting magic for real.
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How i feel about competitive players and casual players in EDH: The competitive are german tourists, the casual are italian tourists, both in a italian beach. The italians asking themselves "why are the germans here?" make a legitimate question, the answer is because the beach is beautiful, no matter the country you came from. The italians wanting to ban the germans are dumb, because if the germans pay for their stay and follow the rules like everyone else, they have the right to be in the beach. Hovewer, if the germans started to ask themselves "why are the italians here?"... they would be dumb as hell.
and the third nevered visited but seen plane. Maro kind of goofed and mentioned something about that one that instantly gives it away from where the bug folk came from.
he said it’s a dinosaur plane so we finally after all these years going to muraganda, but this is spooky to me why do a prehistoric plane debut visit for a race set I don’t think cars are prehistoric
If they waste Muraganda for that *****ty Fast&Furious set, i'm quitting magic for real.
So when they said that Foundations wouldn't rotate for 5 years, I was worried about potentially adding cards that could warp the format for 5 entire years, but I reasoned they'll be extra careful with that sort of stuff and rather err on the lower end of competitive power, so they don't design into a corner.
To all the users on here that said I was "overreacting", being a "doomer," and more when I said UB would take over the game. Well here's a big "I told you so," as it was so obvious where they were taking this game. WotC does not believe in Magic as its own thing, just as a set of rules to house other IPs. Within the next five years a normal Magic set will be the rarity, if it happens at all.
you guys will never win Internet forums and I mean all of them combine is likely less than 15% of every magic player on the planet and it’s typically pessimistic stuff that’s talked and never optimistic
and Proof of that is literally the actual video of the presentation the cheers seemed louder for each UB thing rather than the magic things (heck even the SpongeBob one the room exploded)
and the Lotr set one the biggest complaints was about that set is they wrapped modern and other eternal formats particularly from the one ring and orchish bowmasters the standard legal thing absolutely annihilates that problem since you can't make cards that obnoxious any more, I’m aware that still happens in standard sets but it’s typically a accident like oko, thief of crowns
you guys will never win Internet forums and I mean all of them combine is likely less than 15% of every magic player on the planet and it’s typically pessimistic stuff that’s talked and never optimistic
and Proof of that is literally the actual video of the presentation the cheers seemed louder for each UB thing rather than the magic things (heck even the SpongeBob one the room exploded)
and the Lotr set one the biggest complaints was about that set is they wrapped modern and other eternal formats particularly from the one ring and orchish bowmasters the standard legal thing absolutely annihilates that problem since you can't make cards that obnoxious any more, I’m aware that still happens in standard sets but it’s typically a accident like oko, thief of crowns
The people cheering for that ***** are those modern types of weak nerds who also scream when Nintendo releases a new Mario game or films themselves crying and overreacting to every "I recognised that pop culture reference!" while watching the latest terrible Marvel tv show trailer and ***** like that. They're consumers above all else and will say ***** like "Not all products are for everyone!" while they buy all said products, regardless of what it does to the actual game. I don't care about being called a doomsayer, this ***** speaks for itself.
I already miss Bloomburrow. It was a breath of air before the plunge.
Funny enough, I was playing Magic last night with a bunch of my friends and having a lot of fun as always. But it now feels like we were sitting in blissful ignorance, unbeknownst to the horrors we'd wake up to lol.
Haha, no *****, that's exactly how i feel too sometimes. I mean i usually don't exist on the internet at all. This is just a tiny vacation for me and i'll likely also just disappear again at some point for an extended period at least. How much stuff can just fly above your perception when it isn't really relevant around you is downright amazing.
So 2 months is the new norm for draft formats, less since they're still doing remastered and Modern Horizons and such. Eh...
Well, it's really more like 7 weeks and a bit. Pretty wild. Not too long back i used to be a walking talking Magic card encyclopedia but these days it's become way too hard to keep up for me. Would be nice if there was maybe rather like only half the releases but it's that much of a crazy pipe dream for Wizards to even consider it that it's hardly even worth mentioning.
you guys will never win Internet forums and I mean all of them combine is likely less than 15% of every magic player on the planet and it’s typically pessimistic stuff that’s talked and never optimistic
While it's very true that the internet community in general doesn't 100% represent Magic's community as a whole and it's also pretty well known that negative headlines garner the largest amount of attention i don't think it's all that black/white. On one hand people on the internet might not contain an exact or complete set of the overall types of players (even if it's just that it takes certain type of person which has an interest in public discussion - not everybody has that) and on the other negative sentiments having the most engagement doesn't mean positive angles are completely disregarded.
Personally i sadly really don't have that much positive to say as those things are far and in between for me. For instance i absolutely love the old frame cards (surprise). Seeing the first of those had me drooling. They really got me with this while i'm mostly neutral (everything that doesn't look like the Edgar Markov 50s horror movie poster above or some ugly newspaper snippet) or negative (said abominations) on the other special treatments. I can't really mention this with every single old border card i see though and "new and exciting" (i think that's the official verbiage) stuff is sadly pretty rare for me.
and Proof of that is literally the actual video of the presentation the cheers seemed louder for each UB thing rather than the magic things (heck even the SpongeBob one the room exploded)
Just likes there's a certain type of person that goes on the internet to voice an opinion there's a certain type of person to attend a presentation and such an event also has certain dynamics. I wouldn't give to much about the crowds reaction. Going somewhere needs even more determination than writing stuff on the internet. Take me for example: I'd never ever voluntarily listen to Mark Rosewater let alone make any kind of effort to do so and i'm not alone with this. A friend of mine had pretty good explanation for this somewhat recently. To bad i can't cite it as it is somewhat obscene.
In regards to "winning", well, is there really any kind of "winning". It's either going to turn a profit or it won't and as long as it does we are stuck with it. The question is just: Will it and if it does will it do so sustainably? Also what kind of sustainability would it be? One that relies on a high turnover of players or one where there's a steady long term player base? The worst outcome (looking at it from perspective of the game itself) would probably be for it to be profitable short term but fail long term since at the point this gets obvious a lot of damage will already have been done that can't be reversed easily. There's really nothing to do besides observing what happens and even then it won't be possible to accurately discern why it either worked or didn't work as there probably won't be any representative poll data publicly available as to how many players left or joined over it.
So it's gonna be equal parts Magic and Universes Beyond. Is this game even Magic anymore?
This is pretty horrifying. Just look at that miserable product line up. Tarkir and maybe Edge of Eternities are literally the only ones to look forward to. 2025 is going to be majority bad sets. I already knew I wasn't gonna like the death race set, but I didn't know the future after would be so bleak.
So it's gonna be equal parts Magic and Universes Beyond. Is this game even Magic anymore?
This is pretty horrifying. Just look at that miserable product line up. Tarkir and maybe Edge of Eternities are literally the only ones to look forward to. 2025 is going to be majority bad sets. I already knew I wasn't gonna like the death race set, but I didn't know the future after would be so bleak.
They really don't care about us, do they?
Well, there's also Innistrad remastered. It's a bit weird paying premium for what is basically a recycled best of but being a Magic plane has the nice side effect of not being home to superheros or hobbits. That'll probably be the lone highlight of the year for me.
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Spoiler EditorFirst off, some pre-show Foundations spoilers. Welcome back, Solemn Simulacrum, and presenting the new Cancel and Platinum Angel.
Oh, and the Japan Showcase series is also here. Meet Kaito.
Okay, some upcoming non-card news. Moving forward, MSRP is coming back for Play Boosters and Commander precons. In 2027, Standard rotation will align to the calendar year, instead of the fall set. And then there's... other news.
Yeah, welcome Universes Beyond to Standard.
Another small detour with Innistrad Remastered. Edgar Markov is in the set, and is spearheading the Headliner series, where a card from the set is taken and crafted into the most collectible card on release. Like Markov, some may be serialized.
Okay, actual 2025 sets. Here's the timeline.
First off, the death race set is Aetherdrift, where ten factions (based on color pairs) race it out to gain the Aetherspark.
Here's one of the racers, Chandra, in Japan Showcase, alongside said Aetherspark. She's racing for Nissa, and winning may mean the animist can gain a new planeswalker spark.
Next, up, Tarki: Dragonstorm. No new information yet, other than there will be clans and dragons in it. Oh, and these two.
Ugin's presence is even more felt with this Ghostflame treatment, seen here and on eight other cards in the set.
Here's a sneak peek for Universes Beyond: Final Fantasy. Note that this is going to be the first Standard-legal Universes Beyond release.
Finally, Edge of Eternities is our space/science fantasy set. It takes place on the literal edge of the Blind Eternities. Have some art.
For more details, see here.
I feel like making universes beyond standard legal was inevitable, probably bc people are bringing the cards to stores and finding out that the brand new set they just bought in pack form isn't allowed in fnm. Color me a universe beyond disliker (feels like an obvious means to churn out sets faster bc creative doesn't have to do as much work) but the tidus-yuna kiss card is gonna pull me in.
Also, that "msrp" panel is so funny out of context
The man also has exactly one metal arm, and it's his right arm.
Admittedly, this man's hair is unusually white...
Yeah, probably and for once i can actually see at least some upside to what they are doing there. Making their gimmick sets to work inside standard will likely somewhat cure their itch for designing cards warping eternal formats. On the other hand one can be pretty sure that at least some of the UB cards will become integral to standard finally also making that format into a blurry mess where Mickey Mouse fights flying spaghetti monsters.
I'm not entirely sure their calculation will actually work out though. I have a strong feeling that when Wizards talks about broadening the player base and "new players" they really (at least to a good amount) mean "young players" as from what i hear the average Magic player is 30+ these days and i have quite a bit of doubt adding a bunch of random IPs will change that much (well outside maybe driving out enough of the 30+ players to skew the average...). Lets face it playing Magic on a somewhat serious level is (outside maybe limited and budget standard) simply to expensive for kids. OK, it likely doesn't need the income of a 30 year old to buy a couple cards here or there, so there's probably at least a bit of room but as far as an actual "young" audience is concerned it's either the parents dropping 3 figure sums or it's not happening, which a lot of parents likely won't/can't.
Kids themselves aren't going to randomly spend $90 or by now $130 let alone $200+ on boxes and the odd booster here or there isn't going to get them far. While they might be kids a lot of them probably aren't stupid and will notice quite quickly that they are simply being outprized. If engaging new players would be actually such a main priority Wizards could have that pretty easily but it would hurt their bottom line so they won't do it.
no it’s definitely tezzert I recognize his face and metal arm and plus he probably has a new look from the darksteel
Regarding UB... well wow I did not see that one coming. Having half of a year's releases be UB instead of IU is weird enough, but... They literally pushed Lorwyn back for a UB set.
Just think about the implication for a moment. They consider their actual product less important than crossovers.
Someone in the comment section said it nicely: "They announced the foundation of Magic's next era. It's not Magic."
If UB ends up bringing in more players than non-UB sets, how long will it be until they phase out IU sets entirely? And this is not a doomsday scenario or slippery slope argument, that's just business as usual, in the actual meaning of the word business.
Usually these panels hype me up for future releases, but this was a hype killer, wow.
Gotta say, I am usually way more forgiving and open to the idea of UB than others, but this absolutely feels wrong. I am ok with UB sets/stuff being side things, done in addition to the main IP (product overflow notwithstanding). And I am also fully behind being more experimental with MtG and the worlds of their own IP (as I have stated before). But replacing them entirely with UB? That's more than a few steps too far for me (granted, might be a slight bias on my part too since it starts with Final Fantasy, an IP I am already not looking forward to).
I also hate how it overshadows the Return to Tarkir and the space set, both of which I have been looking forward for a while now and seem quite intriguing to me (Ugin and the clans returning and the space set taking place at the edge of the multiverse basically are both very interesting to me).
The racing set is meh for me, wasn't really that interested in the premise in the first place, but Chandra racing to give Nissa what seems to be an artificial spark is at least an interesting hook. Would have loved to see the first look into the return to Lorwyn, but that was replaced with UB.
If the doomsayers are proven right and Magic ends its own IP entirely in the future (or almost entirely), I will be out as well, not gonna lie.
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It looks like Wizards are having a masterclass on how to water down a 30 year old beloved IP to please some Hasbro executives with short term profits.
The foundation set itself looks cool, but everything else is just ******* horrible. Maybe there's hope for Tarkir to be the only "Magic" set next year. Everything else looks ******* horrible. Sad to see my favourite plane (and what I consider one of Magic's most beautiful and original looking) Kaladesh, in this way too. I won't even begin to comment on the UB and space *****. Bloody hell man.
I've said it before and I'll say it again. It's only a matter of time before they change the back of the card to the new anemic black one.
I at least know I can prioritise whatever measly disposable income I have for guitars and cameras instead of Magic for at least a year. I'll just use what I have, only grab a couple of old singles and ignore the *****.
People will complain and then still buy. If not actually bully you because you don't like their *****ty UB.
It is, it was explicitly said.
Let this great clan rest in peace (2001-2011)
because of being standard legal they are now banned from ever making a card as powerful as the one ring and orchish bowmasters in UB sets. And one complaint about the Lotr set is they made it a pseudo modern horizons set.
and unpopular opinion but man I’m looking forward to the space set. I’m wondering if the whale might be a universe within version of Star whale, but could be a different whale and second is it based on the whales from treasure plant. Or is it based on the constellation of Cetus aka “the whale” in English
oh by the way I think I have are ID of three planes for aether drift set
kaladesh
Either Fiora or Amonkhet (I’m assuming Fiora because of Daretti, but it’s strange we have two visits of that plane and not only one)
and the third nevered visited but seen plane. Maro kind of goofed and mentioned something about that one that instantly gives it away from where the bug folk came from.
he said it’s a dinosaur plane so we finally after all these years going to muraganda, but this is spooky to me why do a prehistoric plane debut visit for a race set I don’t think cars are prehistoric
Then standard is getting larger by another 50% (assuming the number of cards per set stays about the same) and it's gonna see changes with new card 50% more often. Also eh... Trying to trust the process with the standard revitalization thing, but I don't know about this.
If they waste Muraganda for that *****ty Fast&Furious set, i'm quitting magic for real.
first two being kaladesh and amonkhet
https://youtu.be/5sF2FKzEztM?si=-8X5mTnNVoS3urwD&t=1914
31:58 "that might have dinosaurs"
welp........goodbye
And then they reprint Llanowar Elves. Mmh.
you guys will never win Internet forums and I mean all of them combine is likely less than 15% of every magic player on the planet and it’s typically pessimistic stuff that’s talked and never optimistic
and Proof of that is literally the actual video of the presentation the cheers seemed louder for each UB thing rather than the magic things (heck even the SpongeBob one the room exploded)
and the Lotr set one the biggest complaints was about that set is they wrapped modern and other eternal formats particularly from the one ring and orchish bowmasters the standard legal thing absolutely annihilates that problem since you can't make cards that obnoxious any more, I’m aware that still happens in standard sets but it’s typically a accident like oko, thief of crowns
The people cheering for that ***** are those modern types of weak nerds who also scream when Nintendo releases a new Mario game or films themselves crying and overreacting to every "I recognised that pop culture reference!" while watching the latest terrible Marvel tv show trailer and ***** like that. They're consumers above all else and will say ***** like "Not all products are for everyone!" while they buy all said products, regardless of what it does to the actual game. I don't care about being called a doomsayer, this ***** speaks for itself.
I already miss Bloomburrow. It was a breath of air before the plunge.
Haha, no *****, that's exactly how i feel too sometimes. I mean i usually don't exist on the internet at all. This is just a tiny vacation for me and i'll likely also just disappear again at some point for an extended period at least. How much stuff can just fly above your perception when it isn't really relevant around you is downright amazing.
Well, it's really more like 7 weeks and a bit. Pretty wild. Not too long back i used to be a walking talking Magic card encyclopedia but these days it's become way too hard to keep up for me. Would be nice if there was maybe rather like only half the releases but it's that much of a crazy pipe dream for Wizards to even consider it that it's hardly even worth mentioning.
While it's very true that the internet community in general doesn't 100% represent Magic's community as a whole and it's also pretty well known that negative headlines garner the largest amount of attention i don't think it's all that black/white. On one hand people on the internet might not contain an exact or complete set of the overall types of players (even if it's just that it takes certain type of person which has an interest in public discussion - not everybody has that) and on the other negative sentiments having the most engagement doesn't mean positive angles are completely disregarded.
Personally i sadly really don't have that much positive to say as those things are far and in between for me. For instance i absolutely love the old frame cards (surprise). Seeing the first of those had me drooling. They really got me with this while i'm mostly neutral (everything that doesn't look like the Edgar Markov 50s horror movie poster above or some ugly newspaper snippet) or negative (said abominations) on the other special treatments. I can't really mention this with every single old border card i see though and "new and exciting" (i think that's the official verbiage) stuff is sadly pretty rare for me.
Just likes there's a certain type of person that goes on the internet to voice an opinion there's a certain type of person to attend a presentation and such an event also has certain dynamics. I wouldn't give to much about the crowds reaction. Going somewhere needs even more determination than writing stuff on the internet. Take me for example: I'd never ever voluntarily listen to Mark Rosewater let alone make any kind of effort to do so and i'm not alone with this. A friend of mine had pretty good explanation for this somewhat recently. To bad i can't cite it as it is somewhat obscene.
In regards to "winning", well, is there really any kind of "winning". It's either going to turn a profit or it won't and as long as it does we are stuck with it. The question is just: Will it and if it does will it do so sustainably? Also what kind of sustainability would it be? One that relies on a high turnover of players or one where there's a steady long term player base? The worst outcome (looking at it from perspective of the game itself) would probably be for it to be profitable short term but fail long term since at the point this gets obvious a lot of damage will already have been done that can't be reversed easily. There's really nothing to do besides observing what happens and even then it won't be possible to accurately discern why it either worked or didn't work as there probably won't be any representative poll data publicly available as to how many players left or joined over it.
Yeah, Bloomburrow was actually pretty nice.
This is pretty horrifying. Just look at that miserable product line up. Tarkir and maybe Edge of Eternities are literally the only ones to look forward to. 2025 is going to be majority bad sets. I already knew I wasn't gonna like the death race set, but I didn't know the future after would be so bleak.
They really don't care about us, do they?
Low-power cube enthusiast!
My 1570 card cube (no longer updated)
My 415 Peasant+ Artifact and Enchantment Cube
Ever-Expanding "Just throw it in" cube.
Well, there's also Innistrad remastered. It's a bit weird paying premium for what is basically a recycled best of but being a Magic plane has the nice side effect of not being home to superheros or hobbits. That'll probably be the lone highlight of the year for me.