I'm pretty sure I already read this rant with the almost exact same words somewhere else multiple times. If you're so much upset of how the game is today, maybe is better for you to not play it at all anymore and let the other people enjoy it.
Ah yes the good ol' "if you don't like it leave" logic, because you can't not like things in something you enjoy, because if you do then it means you hate it.
Actually that's the argument held by signofzeta. Since he likes and wants old precons, we must have old precons. No matter if old precons were faulty products useful almost to no one. No matter if the majority of people like commander precons more. No matter if wotc sells more commander precon. Everyone must discard commander precons and accept old precons because signofzeta said so. His multiple and long rants are worth more than the opinion of everyone else.
Ok, so everybody likes Commander, and that whoever prefers 60-card base rules deserve nothing. Not only that, everybody wants precons to cost $50 and not $15.
It's not about Theme Decks, Intro Packs, and Planeswalker decks anymore. It is about losing even more 60-card base rules precon options in favor of even more Commander decks, and also having more expensive precons outnumber the cheaper ones.
WOTC can release 100 Commander decks in a single year, and I wouldn't care about it. The only time I care and rant about it is if WOTC would rather release more Commander decks while releasing even less 60-card base rules precons, y'know, Theme Deck, Intro Pack, Planeswalker deck, Duel Deck, Event Deck, Clash Pack, Arena Starter Kits, Challenger decks etc. If WOTC can only limit themselves to a certain number of precons per year, and they would rather have almost all of them be Commander decks, while leaving close to nothing for 60-card base rules precons, I will rant about it.
2020, the first year that the set associated precons became Commander decks, we got 13 60-card base rules precons and 9 Commander decks.
In April of 2021, at the time I first ranted about this, we had 4 base rules precons and projected to have 15 Commander decks. We now have the Arena Starter kit and Pioneer Challenger decks, so the number of 60-card base rules precons went up to 10 instead of the 4 Standard Challenger decks we got, which made me start the rant.
Now the rant in this thread is what happens when the Pioneer Challenger decks fail. 2022 will project to have up to 20 Commander decks, while 2022 will guaranteed to have 4 60-card base rules precons. I don't know if there will be a 2022 Arena Starter kit, and I don't know if another set of 60-card base rules precons replace the failed Pioneer Challenger deck. I will rant if they are replaced by Commander decks despite already having 20 of them.
I'm ranting about how because everybody likes Commander, which is false, they get everything, while those who don't get nothing. Sure we get Challenger Decks for the Standard players, Pioneer Challenger decks for pioneer players, and NOTHING for casual 60-card base rules players, but what's to stop WOTC from going Commander, Commander, Commander, more Commander, and even more Commander, while those who prefer 60-card base rules precons get absolutely nothing?
Commander products print money and Wizards/Hasbro are 100% about the money.
I only buy singles and have fun playing the game with my friends. I more or less completely stopped caring about new releases.
Night's Reach is alive. Bolas had defeated her and stripped away most of her dark power, and stolen her genuine porcelain mask (her "divinity counter") but she had fled again. I imagine the Sisters can restore her, and probably have. But all I can be sure about is that she survived.
If you didnt die on camera for everyone to see, you are not dead.
Can't wait for the Star Wars crossover so I can play an Emperor Palpatine commander deck...
There better be a card called "UNLIMITED POWER!!!"
If they can do a Gangster setting then a Western set is more possible. It will show us how they will creatively work around the guns aspect of a genre that predominantly features guns.
With Neon Dynasty looking the way it does, a western themed set certainly won't be too high tech or "futuristic" for Magic. It looks like they're pushing REALLY hard to expand Magic from only being fantasy style stuff. I'm definitely not a fan of it moving in that direction and like I said earlier in the thread, that's coming from somebody who prefers sci fi stuff.
Sometimes I feel the need to recall that the story of Invasion block involved an airship, an army of genetically modified clones and people in mech suits fighting off an alien invasion.
That's true, but the overall aesthetic of everything was still very not sci fi looking.
Futuristic tech in a premodern setting? Kinda sounds like Steampunk…
Yeah, the early stuff was bordering on high tech stuff was done in a similar vein as maybe steampunk (or aetherpunk with Kaladesh which is my favourite), where it's high tech and they have airships, phyrexian mechs, Urza has power plants beaming with energy and stuff like that, but it's still rooted in fantasy and not "futuristic high tech" if that makes sense.
For KND they could always approach it like how FF8 did with Squall's sword-gun thing. I mean it's totally possible to have a firearm of some sort especially after that many years of societal development.
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More likely neon laser beam blasters than Final Fantasy style sword-guns from how it looks so far lol.
If they can do a Gangster setting then a Western set is more possible. It will show us how they will creatively work around the guns aspect of a genre that predominantly features guns.
With Neon Dynasty looking the way it does, a western themed set certainly won't be too high tech or "futuristic" for Magic. It looks like they're pushing REALLY hard to expand Magic from only being fantasy style stuff. I'm definitely not a fan of it moving in that direction and like I said earlier in the thread, that's coming from somebody who prefers sci fi stuff.
Sometimes I feel the need to recall that the story of Invasion block involved an airship, an army of genetically modified clones and people in mech suits fighting off an alien invasion.
That's true, but the overall aesthetic of everything was still very not sci fi looking.
If they can do a Gangster setting then a Western set is more possible. It will show us how they will creatively work around the guns aspect of a genre that predominantly features guns.
With Neon Dynasty looking the way it does, a western themed set certainly won't be too high tech or "futuristic" for Magic. It looks like they're pushing REALLY hard to expand Magic from only being fantasy style stuff. I'm definitely not a fan of it moving in that direction and like I said earlier in the thread, that's coming from somebody who prefers sci fi stuff.
The Brothers' War and Dominara United are the only things I find interesting, the rest looks pretty terrible to me. I particularly don't like how futuristic Kamigawa is compared to other Magic sets/planes. Kaladesh should be as sci fi as it gets. Pretty disappointed it's not fantasy styled.
New Capenna looks too "modern" too from that image and I don't like gangster/mob stuff in general.
And Lord of the Rings in modern???....... oh boy......
This all looks pretty bad to me.
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Commander products print money and Wizards/Hasbro are 100% about the money.
I only buy singles and have fun playing the game with my friends. I more or less completely stopped caring about new releases.
There better be a card called "UNLIMITED POWER!!!"
Yeah, the early stuff was bordering on high tech stuff was done in a similar vein as maybe steampunk (or aetherpunk with Kaladesh which is my favourite), where it's high tech and they have airships, phyrexian mechs, Urza has power plants beaming with energy and stuff like that, but it's still rooted in fantasy and not "futuristic high tech" if that makes sense.
More likely neon laser beam blasters than Final Fantasy style sword-guns from how it looks so far lol.
That's true, but the overall aesthetic of everything was still very not sci fi looking.
With Neon Dynasty looking the way it does, a western themed set certainly won't be too high tech or "futuristic" for Magic. It looks like they're pushing REALLY hard to expand Magic from only being fantasy style stuff. I'm definitely not a fan of it moving in that direction and like I said earlier in the thread, that's coming from somebody who prefers sci fi stuff.
New Capenna looks too "modern" too from that image and I don't like gangster/mob stuff in general.
And Lord of the Rings in modern???....... oh boy......
This all looks pretty bad to me.