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MaRo asks: Do you like having some Magic sets that have a higher power level than Standard-legal sets? (www.tumblr.com)

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izzipurrito asked:

I know this is a big ask, but...

Please no more direct to Modern sets.

If you guys must, at least make it so that it is Standard legal so it is Standard level in power.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It’s not clear and it’s going to just be used to further whatever conclusion they’ve already come to.

Yeah, whatever the results of this poll are, I guarantee Mark/WotC are going to learn the wrong lesson from it. Like when they look "it's too hard to maintain a collection for Standard" to mean "cards should stay in Standard for longer" and raised the format's power level by half.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Exactly. My current take on this is that the % of the customer/player base that wants to collect all or a majority of the cards, wants to know about all the cards as they hit etc is just small enough to not matter to them anymore. Same thing for the 60-card non-rotating constructed player base. Too small to cater to and maybe they figure that group isn't going to quit anyway.

No doubt in my mind that the suits at Hasbro would kill off all competitive events and just sell us scratch lotto cards if they could but they must currently figure that's an end-game scenario. So they begrudgingly have to support constructed play and they went in on Standard because it rotates (i.e. forced buying) and Commander because it's the largest group that actually still plays the game.

The biggest group though, and the one they principally cater to is the Finance/Investment base. The ones who buy 10s or 100s of thousands of dollars of sealed products. That's who they are building this "game" for moving forward but that's a different topic.