That is why people complain more, and IMO have more reason to complain. A new player trying to compete in Standard has never faced the issues a new player trying to break into Modern faces.
Before Tarmogoyf and with the exception of Morphling that was considered ridiculous at $35, you couldn't sell Standard cards for over $20. After Tarmogoyf, $20 is now considered a steal for a 4x Standard staple.
Not to mention the constant pre-sale scams like Tibalt, the Fiend-Blooded at $40 or Chandra, Torch of Defiance at $60. And of course, all these cards have something in common, for a hint look at the set symbol.
No wonder Standard attendance is decaying.
If Cocks' vision of having Magic compete in the esports arena is to be realized, MaRo, Stoddard, Forsythe, every single member of the FFL and the art directors all need to go. NWO needs to end, memerange magic needs to end, and playing Magic competitively needs to become something someone can choose to do with little barrier to entry, so as much as it may upset bottom liners the era of >$200 Standard decks needs to end.
There are only 2 eternal formats, legacy and vintage. Modern is a constructed format on WotC's own page, and frontier would be as well. You start at magic origins because fetches are AIDS and it seems heavily likely that fetches will never be standard legal again. Fetches are the most powerful cards they have printed since power 9 and company hands down with what they have enabled over their tenure. Not to mention let's keep the delve cards out; the larger the card pool, the better delve cards get. DTT and cruise don't need to grace any format other than vintage ever again.
Extended was tried. It really was a great format until they started rotating it, then it started to die slowly after that. It would be the same now. It would be played only when people needed to play it to try to make it to the pro tour and that's it. That's horrible. It would be only worse now with the way that design and development has made the game.
Modern is an "eternal" format; it never rotates--i.e. the modern-frame cards can be played "forever" and the card pool will continue to grow. "Frontier" would be an eternal format in the same sense and would have the same reprint, pricing, and other problems that Modern has 5-10 years from now except it will be Gideon, Ally of Zendikar and Jace, Vryn's Prodigy instead of Tarmogoyf and Liliana of the Veil.
Extended was a format for 15+ years and survived multiple rotations; the rotations were in fact what keep it from getting stagnant. The rotations didn't kill Extended--Wizards killed it by changing it to a four-year format and then no longer supporting it and adopting another non-rotating format (Modern), which now suffers from the same issues with accessibility as Legacy and Vintage before it.
I fail to see how adopting yet another non-rotating format--essentially just taking Modern and pushing the starting point 10 years into the future--solves much of anything. Looked at another way, if Frontier supplants Modern the way Modern supplanted Extended because Modern is inaccessible, you've essentially just taken Modern and "rotated out" the pre-M15 cards anyway.
Let's just skip the nonsense and acknowledge what's actually needed: a rotating format with a 6-8 year time horizon (i.e. they need to just bring back pre-2010-style Extended) . This would be great because it would remain fresh and reasonably accessible to new players while allowing somewhat more enfranchised players (but not so enfranchised that they're playing Modern, Legacy, or Vintage) to keep playing their standard cards that have zero application in Modern, Legacy, and Vintage.
Lingering Souls and Intangible Virtue were so oppressive together that they were banned in ISD block constructed. Hopefully they don't put them both in here.
It would be two uncommon cards; you'd likely see only one of each show up in a given draft, so this shouldn't really be that big of an issue.
"Memerange magic?"
Do you really run into that many vampires, werewolves, and zombies in multiplayer? The Inquisitor seems like it could easily be something else.
Modern is an "eternal" format; it never rotates--i.e. the modern-frame cards can be played "forever" and the card pool will continue to grow. "Frontier" would be an eternal format in the same sense and would have the same reprint, pricing, and other problems that Modern has 5-10 years from now except it will be Gideon, Ally of Zendikar and Jace, Vryn's Prodigy instead of Tarmogoyf and Liliana of the Veil.
Extended was a format for 15+ years and survived multiple rotations; the rotations were in fact what keep it from getting stagnant. The rotations didn't kill Extended--Wizards killed it by changing it to a four-year format and then no longer supporting it and adopting another non-rotating format (Modern), which now suffers from the same issues with accessibility as Legacy and Vintage before it.
I fail to see how adopting yet another non-rotating format--essentially just taking Modern and pushing the starting point 10 years into the future--solves much of anything. Looked at another way, if Frontier supplants Modern the way Modern supplanted Extended because Modern is inaccessible, you've essentially just taken Modern and "rotated out" the pre-M15 cards anyway.
Let's just skip the nonsense and acknowledge what's actually needed: a rotating format with a 6-8 year time horizon (i.e. they need to just bring back pre-2010-style Extended) . This would be great because it would remain fresh and reasonably accessible to new players while allowing somewhat more enfranchised players (but not so enfranchised that they're playing Modern, Legacy, or Vintage) to keep playing their standard cards that have zero application in Modern, Legacy, and Vintage.
Hopefully Crucible of Worlds or Chalice of the Void. Guessing Crucible since there isn't a mythic artifact yet.
Possible 201/202 (among others): Voidslime, Wall of Denial, Wayfaring Temple
Given what's already been spoiled I'm not sure how that's a safe assumption at all.
It would be two uncommon cards; you'd likely see only one of each show up in a given draft, so this shouldn't really be that big of an issue.