MTG Salvation

Quote from DirkGently »

Lol, if people don’t want to play low-powered then that’s their prerogatives, but what a bad excuse. You can’t afford $30 to buy a precon to play low-powered, because you spent thousands on cEDH...right...

If the price of a deck is the X-Axis, how tuned it actually would be is the Y-Axis. Even amongst the precons, they are tuned to varying degrees despite being priced around the same.

Not exactly Migera. They actually do want their standard cards to be played in other formats such as Modern, Legacy, Pioneer, Vintage, including ones like Commander as its their easily best selling one. And they realized that for that to happen they need to dramatically push the power level of sets for standard. Fun fact, they have also stated Kaladesh and Aether Revolt was during their depowering of standard in prep for things like Eldraine.

Its only going to get more rampant especially since Wizards has stated they have changed their design and playtest philosphy with F.I.R.E in which they are deliberately pushing the power level of sets (See Oko and his forty Elks).