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I haven't bothered with the story in ages, but didn't they cuck her out to Kaya or some dumb shit already?
They had Kaya free all the spirits the Orzhov had on contract after Kaya killed the ghost council, an exorcistic proclamation to free the ghost slaves. This event should have lowered the power of the Orzhov in the entire plane because without these contracts, they are just lawyers/bankers and worse law mages when compared to the Azorius. I doubt wotc thinks about the story beyond "cool moments" and creating characters to virtue signal.
 
That's the most annoying part of all the diversity crap, far too often it kills what can otherwise be a good storyline.
I mean Ravnica 3 was doomed from the start really, having to set up the Guilds to unite against Bolas meant they had to very quickly wrap up every "Badguy" in Ravnica. No matter what Teysa did (given that when we last saw her she got Caught by the Ghost Council and imprisoned) to do it one set was going to be fucking garbage to start with.

Of course Ravnica 2 was fucking trash because they threw out the entire ending of Ravnica 1 for "drama" and retconned the plane to have a billion times more guildless than it was portrayed as originally.
 
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Lmaooooo nigga broke AND at mythic now… but at least wotc gave us the most requested commander in ANOTHER reprint of talrand :/
 
So here's the problem with this set. I don't know who it's for.

EDH players don't usually like sealed, and they buy singles. So it's not really for the vast majority of EDH players.

It's too expensive to shotgun over and over to get good at it in draft. So it's not for limited players.

It's not for standard because it's reprints, and aside from having some modern playable cards it really isn't going to make a splash there aside from drawing the price down.

Stores can't crack it for singles because it's not the 2000-2010s and the expected value of the packs are going to be very low and opening them will drive the prices of the reprinted cards down due to the supply/demand curve.

It must suck to be a distributor or store owner. If this is the best WotC can do.
 
So here's the problem with this set. I don't know who it's for.

EDH players don't usually like sealed, and they buy singles. So it's not really for the vast majority of EDH players.

It's too expensive to shotgun over and over to get good at it in draft. So it's not for limited players.

It's not for standard because it's reprints, and aside from having some modern playable cards it really isn't going to make a splash there aside from drawing the price down.

Stores can't crack it for singles because it's not the 2000-2010s and the expected value of the packs are going to be very low and opening them will drive the prices of the reprinted cards down due to the supply/demand curve.

It must suck to be a distributor or store owner. If this is the best WotC can do.
It's for me to con several friends into doing a virtual draft of and then play on Cockatrice; unfortunately this doesn't actually make WotC any money and it's generally not as good as just doing a cube draft.
 
I mean Ravnica 3 was doomed from the start really, having to set up the Guilds to unite against Bolas meant they had to very quickly wrap up every "Badguy" in Ravnica. No matter what Teysa did (given that when we last saw her she got Caught by the Ghost Council and imprisoned) to do it one set was going to be fucking garbage to start with.

Of course Ravnica 2 was fucking trash because they threw out the entire ending of Ravnica 1 for "drama" and retconned the plane to have a billion times more guildless than it was portrayed as originally.
I quite liked the original Ravnica, the concepts for the Guilds were good in most cases even if some received a lot more development than others in the fluff. For a magic based society it worked quite neatly.
 
So here's the problem with this set. I don't know who it's for.

EDH players don't usually like sealed, and they buy singles. So it's not really for the vast majority of EDH players.

It's too expensive to shotgun over and over to get good at it in draft. So it's not for limited players.

It's not for standard because it's reprints, and aside from having some modern playable cards it really isn't going to make a splash there aside from drawing the price down.

Stores can't crack it for singles because it's not the 2000-2010s and the expected value of the packs are going to be very low and opening them will drive the prices of the reprinted cards down due to the supply/demand curve.

It must suck to be a distributor or store owner. If this is the best WotC can do.
The purpose of this set is to reprint cards from nonstandard sets, EDH staples and cards from the precons. That wouldn’t be so bad, but they do so in the worst way possible where you have multiple versions of the same card, which many versions have ugly or tokenistic art. WotC doesn’t care about the LGSs and small businesses. They wouldn’t be churning out so many exclusives and crap if they did care.

They’re not going to stop printing as many products as they are, they’re not slowing down in any way like people believed they would. It’s just going to keep going the way it is because they know that even if worse comes to worse they have plenty of people willing to still shell out the money to consume products. The same people who saw them making characters in the LotR set niggers and said “I’m going to buy 2 cases because it makes these people mad”.
 
They’re not going to stop printing as many products as they are, they’re not slowing down in any way like people believed they would. It’s just going to keep going the way it is because they know that even if worse comes to worse they have plenty of people willing to still shell out the money to consume products. The same people who saw them making characters in the LotR set niggers and said “I’m going to buy 2 cases because it makes these people mad”.
When did they start with all this "multiverse" capeshit? They already had an infinite amount of settings from planeswalking alone.
 
The walking dead cash grab secret lair sold like crazy because retards see it as the second reserve list that they can get in on.
The magic finance community has been the best thing for Hasbro and the worst thing for the game. They're knuckle dragging pay pigs.
 
The fact that people got so mad because they couldn’t afford reserve list cards, but also get mad at the possibility of cards like the ur-dragon being reprinted says a lot about the playerbase. There’s this inherent greed that hasbro has zeroed in on where the playerbase is angry that cards like the ABU dual lands and gaea’s cradle can’t be reprinted because of an arbitrary policy from WotC, but also will ask for the toppest top dollar for a foil collector’s pack variant of a card.
 
The fact that people got so mad because they couldn’t afford reserve list cards, but also get mad at the possibility of cards like the ur-dragon being reprinted says a lot about the playerbase. There’s this inherent greed that hasbro has zeroed in on where the playerbase is angry that cards like the ABU dual lands and gaea’s cradle can’t be reprinted because of an arbitrary policy from WotC, but also will ask for the toppest top dollar for a foil collector’s pack variant of a card.
I'm going to play devil's advocate and say that Duals should be reprinted just to give access to Legacy/Vintage but not necessarily power 9 and other cards. Also, the over reprinting of new cards is lame as they're never allowed to breath before being tanked.

Though that's never the argument they make, they just bitch about dumb shit and jerk off about a 5% difference in price about some shit they'll sell on ebay and then be surprised how they lost money on the 15% fees or whatever ebay charges.
 
I'm going to play devil's advocate and say that Duals should be reprinted just to give access to Legacy/Vintage but not necessarily power 9 and other cards. Also, the over reprinting of new cards is lame as they're never allowed to breath before being tanked.

Though that's never the argument they make, they just bitch about dumb shit and jerk off about a 5% difference in price about some shit they'll sell on ebay and then be surprised how they lost money on the 15% fees or whatever ebay charges.
If you are breaking reserve list for Legacy/Vintage Access you kind of have to do the full power nine because the Moxen and Lotus are a huge part of Vintage.
 
I'm going to play devil's advocate and say that Duals should be reprinted just to give access to Legacy/Vintage but not necessarily power 9 and other cards. Also, the over reprinting of new cards is lame as they're never allowed to breath before being tanked.

Though that's never the argument they make, they just bitch about dumb shit and jerk off about a 5% difference in price about some shit they'll sell on ebay and then be surprised how they lost money on the 15% fees or whatever ebay charges.
Reprinting them to be more accessible is good, but these people would hurry to buy as many products as they could that contained these reprints to sell for as much as they can. If not that then they’d cry about how they’re losing money because they can’t flip them for as much as they want. It’s a perpetual cycle and the only thing good to come from it is watching retards cry over losing money.
 
If you are breaking reserve list for Legacy/Vintage Access you kind of have to do the full power nine because the Moxen and Lotus are a huge part of Vintage.
Make Legacy accessible and keep Vintage the Mr. Money Bags Big Dick format, it's not that hard. The difference between Duals and any other card is you can hate out any other strategy without building a deck that either wins against duals or loses against decks with duals. The accessibility of answers also relies on duals in many cases, so they're really the only thing that really warps formats on the reserved list, as decks will run far more of them than any Power 9 card even.

Reprinting them to be more accessible is good, but these people would hurry to buy as many products as they could that contained these reprints to sell for as much as they can. If not that then they’d cry about how they’re losing money because they can’t flip them for as much as they want. It’s a perpetual cycle and the only thing good to come from it is watching retards cry over losing money.
That I agree with.

I'm not opposed to cards being expensive, but the whole "buy the dip" and quick tendies shit is annoying. It's why I'm not a fan of collector packs and serialized cards, it's very artificial, while something like a card naturally growing in price because it turns out better than people expected is fine. I'm also more of a fan of lottery cards like priceless treasures (or whatever Kaladesh had was called) as it's a reprint that's unique, offers something for people to chase, and doesn't completely tank the value of the reprint. It's also just unique enough to make it feel like there aren't a million variants and really the error Wizards made was adding so many in each set as opposed to slowly adding them across sets over time.

Sometimes, less is more.
 
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