Quote from Gizlivadi »Why do people think it has to be either Peter Jackson or... whatever this is (like Phyrexian Barad-dur?). There's like 3 different LOTR card games that precede or deviate from the movies and are not as garish as some of these. Look at the LCG, MECCG, or the new War of the Ring card game, etc
For most people in 2023, Peter Jackson movies are their only exposure to Lord of the rings/The Hobbit. The movies brought a resurgence of Tolkien in general. IMO, if not for Peter Jackson's movies, there wouldn't be a Lord of the rings mtg set.
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7 mana for 2 cards
3 to cast
4 to activate
It can't pay mana towards its card draw
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They refer to Magic and Monopoly together with that exact same terminology in every earnings report. I'm not saying you're definitely wrong. Just that you can rarely determine exact product performance from their reports because they tend to report products in groups. Additionally, Monopoly is grouped with Magic specifically because it makes way more money than either of us would reasonably expect such an old franchise to make (probably from brand licensing and not simple sales of the actual game itself - but that's just me guessing).
That said, I think we might be able to read between the lines with a couple of paragraphs:
So Franchise Brands, which include Monopoly and Magic, had a down quarter - and that's in spite of growth in Monopoly. So it is probably safe to say that Magic had a down quarter (though the exact extent of how down is unknowable). Based on the middle sentence, it seems that they put a fair share of the blame on the Toys R Us closing, which is interesting and might explain their slight shift away from LGS distribution over the last couple months as they look for a new retail-sized purchasing medium to help buoy their revenue.
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Crush Contraband is a good, budget EDH option.
Maximize Altitude is going to end a lot of limited matches with that Jump Start recast ability.
Selective Snare is unique tribal hate... "hate"?
Burglar Rat is very efficient.
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The deck would be called Demonic Mnemonic.
The key cards should have first letters of D, E, M, O, N, I, and C.
If people ask what's in the deck, you could easily name them with that handy mnemonic.
Because DEMONIC would be the mnemonic for the Demonic Mnemonic deck.
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But if you're gonna get there, this dude could do some work for that deck.
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Many moons ago, I used to have expectations that every set should be balanced among all colors/guilds/whatever.
Then I finally came around to accept that Wizards typically lets story push the card design more than I anticipated, which is why a set can have Urborg while other colors don't get some insane ramp spell in the same set. It's not how I would design a game, but I also don't have a pedigree that includes supporting a 20+ year old game, so I defer to them and accept that there will be ebbs and flows across colors as the story moves along.
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So you're saying I'm going to open 3 of these PR weekend?