I don't understand why WOTC couldn't have, y'know, released Midnight Hunt on October 2021, and Crimson Vow on January 2022. I read some comments on reddit that said that between the release gap between Fall and Winter is too long, and I don't buy that. They could have just released Midnight Hunt in October, and Crimson Vow in January, and there would have been a 3 month gap.
If WOTC really wanted to release a standard set in November, they could've released D&D set in August, Midnight Hunt in November, and Crimson Vow in February, with the set after that released in May, and mimic the release schedules of Pokemon and Yugioh.
I don't like this new release cycle. There should never ever be 3 sets within a span of 6 months.
I also read that some people say that Crimson Vow is "supposed to be" the Winter 2022 set released a few months early, and then referencing the "There are still 4 standard sets per rotation year". This does not mean that Crimson Vow is the "Winter 2022" set, because we might get a Winter 2022 set, Spring 2022 set, Summer 2022 set, and Fall 2022 set, with rotation being pushed up to be in between Spring and Summer 2022 set. Maybe the slot where Core Sets would have been aren't the last set, but first set in the rotation?
Idk about how rotation will work, but my theory is that the two Innistrad sets are so close together because they want to mitigate plane-fatigue. We'll have had two consecutive years of new planes with every set. It's possible WotC think that staying on Innistrad too long will make players bored of the setting, which is part of the reason they dropped the block model.
I could be completely wrong though. We won't really know why the sets are so close together at least until we have a better idea of what's coming in 2022. They might be planning an increased number of supplemental sets that they want to space out a bit more evenly.
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Idk about how rotation will work, but my theory is that the two Innistrad sets are so close together because they want to mitigate plane-fatigue. We'll have had two consecutive years of new planes with every set. It's possible WotC think that staying on Innistrad too long will make players bored of the setting, which is part of the reason they dropped the block model.
I could be completely wrong though. We won't really know why the sets are so close together at least until we have a better idea of what's coming in 2022. They might be planning an increased number of supplemental sets that they want to space out a bit more evenly.