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UtadaWasabi2 said:
Can somebody tell me why is aetherdrift commander precon with pajeeta on the front(living energy) sitting unsold? It is everywhere in every lgs I visit at a very sad price.
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1) Energy is a mechanic with a pretty narrow appeal;
2) The mechanic is traditionally in URW, not URG, so you're not getting access to the full energy support suite;
3) The precon itself is lazy and uninspired "Midrange but with a gimmick" fare;
4) Its competition from the same set was the zombies precon that had two very hyped commanders and a good decklist.
 
The Mass Shooter Ron Soye said:
Some BiC ragebait for you:

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Business Thread 'If You Think ‘Magic: The Gathering’ Is Turning To “Slop”, Its Head Designer Thinks You Might Be A Fascist'


Spencer Baculi | Nov 25, 2025

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A Fire Nation soldier prepares to launch a ground offensive via Warship Scout (Card #244) Magic: The Gathering – Avatar: The Last Airbender (2025), Wizards of the Coast. Art by Brandon L. Hunt.

In one of the most bizarre criticism deflections seen in recent memory, Magic: The...
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"I dont like that fascist content is coming into mtg and the game is becoming more about money than fun"

Wotc: "umm akchually, you're the fascist"
 
Honka Honka Burning Love said:

Whoopsies "We are lazy faggots" has finally come to bite secret lairs in the ass.
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I wouldn't say that.

I've seen some speculation this was driven by Capcom reacting to the negative PR from the initial reveal. Monster Hunter Wilds didn't go over well, so now they're sensitive to the discussions surrounding one of their flagship franchises. On WotC's side, Capcom is a gold mine for IP crossover slop, so keeping them happy is of paramount importance - important enough, anyway, to shitcan this SL after the cards have likely all been printed.

So yeah, I don't anticipate this will happen again, but it happening now will be a thorn in WotC's side for a long time to come since every lazy cash-in SL will be met with cries of, "This sucks, redo it!" and Wizards won't.
 
Maratus volans said:
I wouldn't say that.

I've seen some speculation this was driven by Capcom reacting to the negative PR from the initial reveal. Monster Hunter Wilds didn't go over well, so now they're sensitive to the discussions surrounding one of their flagship franchises. On WotC's side, Capcom is a gold mine for IP crossover slop, so keeping them happy is of paramount importance - important enough, anyway, to shitcan this SL after the cards have likely all been printed.

So yeah, I don't anticipate this will happen again, but it happening now will be a thorn in WotC's side for a long time to come since every lazy cash-in SL will be met with cries of, "This sucks, redo it!" and Wizards won't.
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The timing of this reveal being close to the DOTA 2/Monster Hunter collaboration, since DOTA 2 players are in their own ecosystem and almost only exclusively play/watch DOTA and nothing else, does make it look like Capcom is desperate to get more traffic for the Monster Hunter brand.
 
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Maratus volans said:
I wouldn't say that.

I've seen some speculation this was driven by Capcom reacting to the negative PR from the initial reveal. Monster Hunter Wilds didn't go over well, so now they're sensitive to the discussions surrounding one of their flagship franchises. On WotC's side, Capcom is a gold mine for IP crossover slop, so keeping them happy is of paramount importance - important enough, anyway, to shitcan this SL after the cards have likely all been printed.

So yeah, I don't anticipate this will happen again, but it happening now will be a thorn in WotC's side for a long time to come since every lazy cash-in SL will be met with cries of, "This sucks, redo it!" and Wizards won't.
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Yes and I would say having to redo an entire secret lair because they got so fucking lazy with them that even the retard consumers noticed.

That is how everything works for Magic the Gathering.

Maro : "Idea!"
Community : "Yay we like it"
Maro : "We made money off it, lets run it into the ground and with each new version of it we will half ass it more and more!"

If not for Universes Beyond getting pushed I am kind of Convinced they would have done something REALLY fucking stupid with Sagas in the next year.
 
I’m not a monster hunter fan, I’ve seen a lot of complaints about the secret lair and celebration of the rework, but am yet to really understand what’s wrong with it (other than it being a UB secret lair)
Curious to hear why it’s so hated.
 
alogatog said:
I’m not a monster hunter fan, I’ve seen a lot of complaints about the secret lair and celebration of the rework, but am yet to really understand what’s wrong with it (other than it being a UB secret lair)
Curious to hear why it’s so hated.
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Lots of bad cards, and lots of REALLY bad value.

The Iconic Dragon monster of Monster hunter was a 50 Cent Dragon card.
 
Having zero equipment cards for Monster Hunter is also a massive flavor fail and having no palicoes seems like an odd choice too.
Monster Hunter would also slot in perfectly as a standard set unlike say Star Trek or TMNT.
 
Honka Honka Burning Love said:
Maro : "We made money off it, lets run it into the ground and with each new version of it we will half ass it more and more!"
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If I could like this 100 times it still wouldn't convey how true this is.

Maratus volans said:
Ikoria was a mashup of MH, Pokémon, and Attack on Titan, which...okay, AoT and MH go together fine, but Pokémon is wildly out of place with those two.
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Ikoria has the problem every modern setting has. It's all of those things if they were mashed together and then made incredibly fucking gay.
 
Maratus volans said:
Ikoria was a mashup of MH, Pokémon, and Attack on Titan, which...okay, AoT and MH go together fine, but Pokémon is wildly out of place with those two.
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Actually pokemon... but when you throw the ball a 10 story dragon pops out sounds metal af.
 
Flexo said:
Actually pokemon... but when you throw the ball a 10 story dragon pops out sounds metal af.
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Pokemon already did that but then made it less cool by making them return to normal size when you catch them
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And because the budget for the main game of a billion dollar franchise is just pocket change from Doug Bowser's couch it takes place in an alternate realm so you can't really appreciate how fucking big they are.

Anyway I think we can just cut out Pokemon from the Ikoria description entirely because Monster Hunter covers those tropes with the Stories games

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Maratus volans said:
I wouldn't say that.

I've seen some speculation this was driven by Capcom reacting to the negative PR from the initial reveal. Monster Hunter Wilds didn't go over well, so now they're sensitive to the discussions surrounding one of their flagship franchises. On WotC's side, Capcom is a gold mine for IP crossover slop, so keeping them happy is of paramount importance - important enough, anyway, to shitcan this SL after the cards have likely all been printed.

So yeah, I don't anticipate this will happen again, but it happening now will be a thorn in WotC's side for a long time to come since every lazy cash-in SL will be met with cries of, "This sucks, redo it!" and Wizards won't.
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I am pretty surprised that Wilds has been considered doing poorly, but I guess it probably has awful player numbers since there's no reason to play past about 10 hrs. Just seems like it got a lot of good press when it came out, but I guess the flaws show through.
Honka Honka Burning Love said:
Lots of bad cards, and lots of REALLY bad value.

The Iconic Dragon monster of Monster hunter was a 50 Cent Dragon card.
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There's definitely some that seem off even at face value. Bit overplayed but many would probably think double strike for dual blades, and the fact they put Archaeomancer in a lair at all is really funny. Though I guess it was positive since it was at least ignorable for anyone not interested.
 
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