Stores in a lot of Canada haven't been able to have people play in their stores for close to a month now due to lockdowns in various provinces and the in store play suspension. I know a few stores that didn't even allow in store play even when they were allowed to by local/provincial guidelines. At first I thought the second wave of lockdowns wouldn't be as bad/long as the first but I'm getting doubtful of when we will see the return of in store play again. It might be a few months still for even small, local level events. I can't see Magic Fests happening again until next year and I'm really starting to miss large events now
I feel that the fact that we have a vaccine is enough to give us hope for this being resolved soon. I myself just wanna be able to grind paper events with friends again, although that might still be a bit. I'm really missing the travel/grind aspect of Magic that playing online doesn't have
It seems at least some part of Canada is breaking a record of daily cases every day so part of me thinks it could still be a bit before we can actually play paper. Especially with lockdowns and curfews being stricter now
sorry for my ignorance, but in the US, are a lot of card stores allowed to have customers inside the store right now or are they forced t be closed? a lot of Canadian provinces are in a second wave of lockdowns so non-essential businesses aren't allowed to have customers inside the store. I've been relying on curbside pickups for a few weeks now
I feel that being disappointed with pioneer is a common theme I've noticed lately. Partially because the format was so stale for a while with inverter and breach being left to run the format for a while. another thing is that there hasn't been many real pioneer tournaments with any kinds of stakes for a while, so there's no real incentive to play the format
take what I'm saying with a grain of salt though, as I'm what you'd call a spike so I tend to care more about competitive formats so I tend to pay ore attention to people with similar opinions as me
Even before Covid, paper standard was struggling in my area. Part of that was because modern has traditionally been the preferred format. This is mostly due to the format being seen as more diverse, especially 4-5 years ago. The other reason is some people just don't like the concept of rotation, which is also why standard is basically nonexistent right now. Nobody wants to pay for paper cards they might not even be able to use in paper before they rotate. I've heard some people say that it might be a good time to get cards that will be around after rotation, such as Zendikar Rising cards and Kaldheim cards
While I understand wanting to discuss the vaccine that is now somewhat available to everyone, please keep discussions to Magic and the impacts of covid on stores/in store play
It seems at least some part of Canada is breaking a record of daily cases every day so part of me thinks it could still be a bit before we can actually play paper. Especially with lockdowns and curfews being stricter now
take what I'm saying with a grain of salt though, as I'm what you'd call a spike so I tend to care more about competitive formats so I tend to pay ore attention to people with similar opinions as me