WotC being sold to a different company could (hopefully) be a great solution!

Best I can think of is a big investor who's well known amongst the community to come save the day. Which is the biggest longshot in the multiverse. To buy work and purge those woke employees.. including maro

Yikes! That’s bad

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Becomes easy to wax nostalgic for those older sets and simpler times of magic.

Totally agree! Spoiler season used to be exciting, now it’s just endured

Not to mention 3rd part proxies are starting to look all too much like the real products.

I watched GPs and SCGTour like every weekend for years - it was so fun!

Really? That’s unfortunate to hear, but unfortunately not too surprising. They gotta expand their vision more longterm!

And (I know ... I might get some crap for bringing THIS franchise up) but My Little Pony as well, the merch offerings for fans is lacking IMO and the latest shows are definitely a mixed bag quality wise as if Hasbro is trying to grab what made FiM, the 4th generation of the franchise, successful, and continue to let the proverbial slippery eel fly out of its hands.

Thank you! The PT was such a great goal and spectator event, I really hope they can successfully bring it back!

Nice. I’m all about genuine cards as well!

Same here. Playing with genuine cards is one of the great joys of this game.

its the same thing for many of us

Hopefully they can increase that profit on growth of the game and not short-term gimmicks that damage the game and company long term

@@MagicMetalMoney considering they haven’t invested in creating a superior product in 30 years and are now laying off employees, hoping for better outcomes seem naive and requires a level of faith even real magic users seldom achieve… sell n make plausible proxies n play freely

They could easily make more unique products such as figures,shirts,counters,mats etc rather than focusing on cards so much. The reprints across the whole board needs to substantialy slow down in fact I believe a reserve list is needed after so many printings of a card now. As a former collector of unique cards such as fnm,Player rewards,gameday,judge promos and unique promos designed for prereleaae I would go to those events and try and collect play sets of each. Not much of a motivator swaping out for prize packs which are now just a cheap version of the other 5 versions already availble. Wotc also needs to quite making commander players their main focus, too many commader decks . Notice the best commander decks this year with any real value are not ones made for a set release. Wotc needs to visit their past and use it as a role model or they are doomed for failure.

The foil curling is soooo bad. Like how is this still a problem literally years later?

@@MagicMetalMoney how is it a problem for them when Pokémon solved that problem 30 years ago?

@@joebaumgart1146 Great question... lack of care, I suppose?

Every 5 minutes… 🙃

Resurrect the PT!

no one cares about the pro tour other than a handful of players. What they really should've have been doing was continuing the long term viablility of the FNM Draft/Standard cycle (which actually allows the protour) but the power creep and release of so many sets have literally killed that part of the game. That kills new players entering and leaves just whales/collectors and you're average addict giving them money along with the casual commander scene which they're also killing off due to power creep. Casuals are in it for fun and all these losers who must win muh mtg and buy every power card to give them an advantage are pretty much all that's left of the casual scene. There's too many other things to compete for that time now so you're average player which used to probably account for 70%+ of the player base has left or stopped buying.

You too! 🎉

Lol

Just playing limbo! How low can you go?

They Come Straight From WOTC Printers....

lol right right. NOT proxies.

No, they’re the same. Confusing but those are the rules lol

@@MagicMetalMoney I thought as much but wanted to confirm. Guess I don't need Prime now. 🙂

Which Optimus Prime? The one from Brothers War is actually different.

@@joebaumgart1146 The Darksteel Colossus copy, thought it'd be funny to run in Jhoira alongside the Iron Giant himself.

Haha thanks! 🧙‍♂️

S4L - Slivers for Life

@@MagicMetalMoney NEVER!!!

@@eviljigglypuff2254 lol fair

Welcome aboard!

I haven’t even looked at Dominaria Remastered yet. 5 card packs?? WHY!?!

@@MagicMetalMoney that's the March of the Machines: Aftermath. They're gonna give us 4 uncommons and a rare/mythic in a pack. So 5 cards per pack, 24 packs and $120+. It's an insult...

@@a.khaosnarine9118 not a magic player or collector here. If all cards are uncommon, aren't they common? Are these cards of another set? How many cards rarity are there(no alrernative arts or different holografics, just for a play standpoint)?

@@a.khaosnarine9118 geez… that’s bad

@@jacopodondi2372 magic has gotten sad interms of game play and value. Nothing is actually rare now... I mean nothing. Imagine Foils and alternate art work for some cards are cheaper than the standard version...

If you're trying to keep up with standard or drafts, just not possible. Sucks to have to update your deck every few weeks or so. We're not made out of money and the amount of players leaving the game makes these events less enticing altogether. They're cashing in on the casuals and eroding the base that's stuck with them for decades.

@@JupiterTarts if your only keeping up with standard there were only 5 sets, so shouldn't have been hard to keep up with.

@@JupiterTarts also i would note that no they are not betraying long time players for casuals, here is what people are not getting, they have products for all the different types of players. That is the point in so many different products they are each filling different and overlapping demands. Deck building in commander is more fun right now than it has been since the earliest days of discovery because there are so many cards to explore. Here is something to note and this comes from many lgs around me, i have about 15 or so just in the county i live in, casual players spend much much more money than competative players. Casual players and collectors tend to buy more sealed products, where as competative players tend to buy just the few singles they want for decks. I would also correct you in that i have been playing since alpha. Most of the players I know have been playing that long or near it. Not a single one of them had a problem with any products other than the 30th crapiversary. Most players also don't consume online creator content. They have barely any idea of the drama online other than for the crapiversary and most of them don't know about that. They are enjoying the products having fun and playing. Too many content creators have been indulging in the online negativity because it is getting them views. This is making the active community more angry than the overall community really is in general and this is unfortunate. People have themselves so worked up they are looking for any reason to be upset and over looking all the great things that came from this year. 4 or 5 years ago, i had 5 commander decks, that was all that was really worth building generally because decks would get to similar, repeat to many cards and strategies, not to mention many cards were very expensive because there were not enough reprints. Now with the variants, reprints, and many new cards it is a commander brewers dream come true. I have over 90 decks now. Since i have all the options each of my decks can feel unique, have its own look and strategy. The state of commander has gotten so so much better. Now standard players, well thats hard standard has been dying for years, this year doesn't have anything to do with it, and the volume of product is unrelated as most of it is not playable in standard. Arena hurt standard as you can play at home, the pandemic hurt standard because no imperson play. I think however standard started dying years ago. People like me, and there are many, after years of playing got tired of rotations and cards losing most of their value after rotation, and not getting to play with our favorite cards from years before. Now for myself, i was generally bored with 60 card magic. I would have never come back after the original innastrad rotation if it wasn't for commander getting more and more interesting. I had commander decks before this point to maybe catch a game before or after a draft but they were jank and not really thought out just fav cards slammed together. For me around the time that innastrad rounded out, commander was becoming more interesting and thoughtful. I fell in love with singleton as it let me explore more of magic to create the repetition and reliabillity that comes with 60 card decks. Commander is just a better format than any of the 60 cards in every way and the decks allow for more exploration and personalization in my humble opinion. If 60 cards is your jam don't let me stop you, just mostly wanted to point out, that i and people i know are long time players and we like the volume of products, it makes casual much better. This really shouldnt have any bearing on standard other than design is recently eternal first but at the same time they say that most of the cards in the standard sets are dumbed down for standard. Sorry this was long but I wanted to be clear. Lastly i would add casual players are spending the most money, so in turn they should have the biggest voice.

I haven’t bought a sealed Magic product since Kamigawa. Most of my cities play groups have all switched to proxies along with the LGS’ since they don’t do WPN events.

@@hiddenleaf414 not sure why anyone who wanted to hasn't been using proxies as long as thet have ever wanted to. I don't play proxies because I like owning the real card but either way is a fine way to engage with the game. If someone doesn't want to spend money or can't afford to, proxies let them play the game. For myself i don't play proxies because i enjoy owning the cards

Terrible take. Many people are not willing to pay so much money to play a game with no official support.

@@DeathGripsFan69 I'd take this over the current trajectory. Maybe even community-supported going forward. We create a DAO and a crypto governance token $MTG and pay the committee through defi.

i don't know what information you read to make you decide to go to an inferior product .

Never played digimon, but a few people at my LGS love it

It was actually the predatory attack on dnd that made me turn away from hasbro as a company in general. The wallet is more important then the experience to them for sure

@@MagicMetalMoney It's by far the best TCG and it will take 2023 by storm by dominating the market.

Geez, that’s a rough hit. They gotta turn this ship around!

Lmao I love this idea

This is a perfect example of how more is less for them. They gotta pump them breaks!

35 SLDs??! Doesn't sound like you saved any money😂

Haha I’m trying to do better! Got a bunch in the pipeline!

You sound like a hasbro executive

@@moodlampActual LMAO hopefully I have better quality control than their foils!

Would’ve been fascinating to see magic 30th at a cheaper price point such as $10 a box. I bet you’re right, people would’ve probably loved it.

@@MagicMetalMoney for 10 bucks; id probably get 2 boxes. ive had gold bordered cards in the past. i hated them lol

Yugioh has a reprint set with gold bordered cards that are legal to play every year. One booster box is ~$20, and it is typically a rather successful product. Not as collectible, maybe, but a lot more generous and accessible.

Right. We cannot allow any LGS to make money, either with singles or with sealed product. Amazon dumps take care of the sealed product, Secret Lairs deal with the singles. Down with the LGS!

@@kurtilein3 simple solution: give LGSs shipments of secret lairs and bring back MSRP

@@kurtilein3 Translation: OH NOOO I CAN'T SCAM KIDS ANYMOREEEEE, I USE LGS's AS A SCAPEGOAT

That’s a great perspective 🙂 Game play wise, I agree. We’ve had a lot of great constructed and limited formats over the last couple years.

Ok Chris Cocks.. We know it's you buddy. Cut the act.

The irony. Now you can leave

The best game run by the worst company. It’s truly tragic irony

Ironic that you say that WOTC has those politics when its Hasbro the ones that do.

@@jironamos7650 No it isn't. Wotc was like that long before Hasbro bought them out.

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