All I want to know is, are we seeing this new shift in releases permanently, or are we going back to the typical January/February April/May July September/October release schedule like we have always seen?
It seems to me WOTC always wants a standard set in July. When they started to release 4 standard sets a year, the summer set is always in July. Never seen it release in August. If this shift in release dates is permanent, I am thinking something like mid February, late May/early June, mid September, mid November, with rotation happening when there is a 4 month gap between sets. With September and November being 2 months apart, that is when they release their "2 set block" sets.
I really want to know what is happening in 2022 so bad. I actually like their February May July October release, as it almost mimics Pokemon and Yugioh's February May August November release schedules.
It really irks me when a Hipsters of the Coast article says that Crimson Vow is the "Winter 2022" set pushed ahead, when there is no proof that that is the case. The "there are still 4 sets in a rotation year" as proof doesn't prove that Crimson Vow is the "Winter 2022" set. Crimson Vow is the 2nd set in the rotation year, just like how Kaldheim and Theros Beyond Death were the 2nd set in the rotation year, not that Crimson Vow was supposed to be the "Winter 2022" set pushed ahead. To say it was such would mean there would be 3 sets in 2022 instead of the usual 4, but we don't know if there is going to be 4 sets, with Standard rotating in between 2nd and 3rd sets in the year. It just so happens that for the longest time, the Q1 Winter set and the 2nd set in the rotation year is one and the same, but we can't for sure say that just because it was true, that it is true for Crimson Vow.
The only reason why we have 5 sets in 2021 is because WOTC wants to change when the sets rotate, without changing the number of sets in a rotation cycle. If they just wanted to change when the sets were released, they could have just released Midnight Hunt in November, and Crimson Vow in February, rather than cramming in a 5th set.
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?
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It seems to me WOTC always wants a standard set in July. When they started to release 4 standard sets a year, the summer set is always in July. Never seen it release in August. If this shift in release dates is permanent, I am thinking something like mid February, late May/early June, mid September, mid November, with rotation happening when there is a 4 month gap between sets. With September and November being 2 months apart, that is when they release their "2 set block" sets.
I really want to know what is happening in 2022 so bad. I actually like their February May July October release, as it almost mimics Pokemon and Yugioh's February May August November release schedules.
The only reason why we have 5 sets in 2021 is because WOTC wants to change when the sets rotate, without changing the number of sets in a rotation cycle. If they just wanted to change when the sets were released, they could have just released Midnight Hunt in November, and Crimson Vow in February, rather than cramming in a 5th set.
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?