Well crap. Now I'm not going to have anywhere to ask rules questions or scope out cool deck lists for various formats.
In my opinion this has been the best resource for the game. Now I'm just wander around the internet trying to find a substitute. Bullocks I tell you!
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@WarMachinePrime, this. You can buy product if you attend a prerelease. It's been going on for a while now(even further back than Dominaria but don't quote me on that).
The current model is profitable for both WOTC and LGSs. I'm close friends with the owner of my LGS, and he says his biggest sales are at prerelease and street date. After that it's just a steady trickle. So for him the model works.
I'm a singles buyer, so I have to wait until street date to get what I what. Right now I have a pile of singles sitting at my LGS waiting for release date for me to purchase them.
Look, I'm not trying to argue or debate the topic. I just disagree with your sentiment about it. Since opinions don't matter really, there we have it. Two people with differing opinions about nothing that truly matters.
It’s a model WOTC has been using for a long time. I like it, I get stuff early if I attend, if not no big. It’s just one week, are you people like five years old and cannot handle a little wait time?
Plus I feel that it’s good for LGSs, it gives them two weekends of high sales vs. only one.
It states this in the rulings on Urza’s Ruinous Blast.
Also check out Booster Tutor.
Hurricane
Tropical Storm
Squall Line
Silklash Spider
Wind Shear
to name a few
This comment nails it on the head. That and everything SavannahLion said. Functionality has to take precedence over form(IMHO).
I definitely don’t need a lecture on how people are, as someone who owns a business involving customer service I’ve had to learn to edit my behavior both for the sake of my customers and employees. I don’t trust anyone and surely don’t take any crap either.
All your examples are perfectly fine and I agree. I guess I was using “respectful” and “civil” more synonymously. My statement is aimed primarily at the “I don’t want to change my behavior because reasons” crowd.
I agree people can really suck much of the time, but I’ve also learned that treating people well can illicit better behavior from them. I’m generally considered an ******** by people around me, but that doesn’t mean I have to be less mature.
You’re absolutely correct, no need to put yourself in a position to be taken advantage of. I guess finding that balance between being polite and cautious is the key.
That said, it’s not difficult to be civil and use “they” as a neutral pronoun if it’s what people prefer.
And to the people that say “respect needs to be earned”, so how do you treat people before they’ve earned your respect? Are just a jerk to people until they’ve met your criteria? How about treating people with respect until they show they don’t deserve respect.
Whatever happened to treating people how you would wish to be treated?
I treat people how I want to be treated, and then I treat them as they treat me. I give respect, disrespect has to be earned.
On highly anticipated releases he gets 25-30 attendees, at a typical FNM he gets about 8. There’s a lot of variance, and from what he told me is that WOTC tries to send him product to match his higher numbers. In the past they would only send him product to match his lower numbers and that had an adverse affect on his business. Imagine showing up for an event only to be told there’s not enough to go around because WOTC is stingy. At one big pre-release he had to turn away over ten people because of this. People who drove from other near by towns. This doesn’t go over well so WOTC changed their position. According to the owner this is a huge issue in small issolated town with irregular attendance.
To be fair my LGS receives more pre-release kits and promos than he has players attending events. He’ll sell the pre-release kits in bulk for a good price. He sells leftover promos online. Many of the locals will trade in the promos for store credit, and the owner trades quite well to get them. So he ends up with a lot of extra product to sell. It could look shady from a cursory glance but he’s totally on the up and up. I have a feeling that this is quite common in smaller locales.
Note to self, RTFC! LOL
Is this how it would play out?
Is there a way to interupt this loop?
But ultimately it is WOTC's game and they have the authority to rule how they choose. Arena even more so.
Singleton is just a format with its own deck construction rules. Both Relentless Rats and Rat Colony have wording that ignores construction limits, it's really just that simple. The number of cards allowed in a deck is a construction issue, not a format legality issue.
In the end it works that way because they say it does, and within the framework of the Comp Rules they feel confident that this issue is covered.
For clarity it would be nice if they just made a rule that states something to the effect of "if a card says you can have any number of that card in your deck this overrides card limit rules for singleton formats", just because of the hyper-literal rules nit-pickers.