Well color me surprised. Did not expect something like this until 2020. The development cycle must have began earlier than I thought, or it's accelerated.
likely? not sure. but they could do it. a couple of fetches in each deck in a new series of commander precons would hit all ten fetches and work well in those decks, make for good sales and please modern and commander players alike.
What I'm trying to say is that trying to serve two masters risks pleasing neither. As opposed to the casual/competitive gap, which is a gradient, the players of two formats are a Venn diagram. Your solution would please folks in the middle who play both, but not necessarily the players on either side. It would try to make the players on the modern side buy cards they have no intention of using, and it makes players on the commander side compete with everybody else. Not to mention, the idea of seeing multiple $15 (minimum!) staples in a $40 product is an unreasonable expectation to begin with. Commander products and premium preconstructed products deserve to be two completely different categories.
Fingers crossed we see some fetchlands in the commander set.
There's no way that Wizards would put a Modern staple of that caliber into an EDH product even if EDH players get use out of them. That's just asking for a buyout debacle on a somewhat lesser scale to the True-Name Nemesis one. Now, a high-end preconstructed deck designed for Modern would be another matter. Sure, they tried it years ago without success, but if standard challenger decks were able to succeed the old event decks for Standard, then Modern can do the same. I could definitely see a series of $49.99+ MSRP decks that contain 1-2 copies of certain staples for budget versions of popular decks.
In addition to the assumptions about the survey results, the idea that a (Q4) 2018 survey would inform a 2019 set is presumptuous. WoTC has a 2 year development cycle for most of its major products, which makes the idea of a less than a full year turnaround incredibly suspect. Wistful thinking is the lifeblood of speculation for MTG, but there is just no way a set for Modern that contains many new cards will come out next year unless it had already been in the works for a while by the time the survey came out. If the non-standard set MaRo mentioned is a full-scale, draftable, ~250 card product, then it will most likely be a casual-friendly product along the lines of Unstable and Battlebond. As MaRo excluded RNA from the three sets due to iteration, I expect an annual product such as Commander would not be among the three as well.
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What I'm trying to say is that trying to serve two masters risks pleasing neither. As opposed to the casual/competitive gap, which is a gradient, the players of two formats are a Venn diagram. Your solution would please folks in the middle who play both, but not necessarily the players on either side. It would try to make the players on the modern side buy cards they have no intention of using, and it makes players on the commander side compete with everybody else. Not to mention, the idea of seeing multiple $15 (minimum!) staples in a $40 product is an unreasonable expectation to begin with. Commander products and premium preconstructed products deserve to be two completely different categories.
There's no way that Wizards would put a Modern staple of that caliber into an EDH product even if EDH players get use out of them. That's just asking for a buyout debacle on a somewhat lesser scale to the True-Name Nemesis one. Now, a high-end preconstructed deck designed for Modern would be another matter. Sure, they tried it years ago without success, but if standard challenger decks were able to succeed the old event decks for Standard, then Modern can do the same. I could definitely see a series of $49.99+ MSRP decks that contain 1-2 copies of certain staples for budget versions of popular decks.