Postby Mongrel » Sat Feb 10, 2024 1:34 am
Looking at cards for the first time in ages, I noticed Wizzerds decided to drastically reduce the number of Planeswalker cards they release (to one per set) because after only about 15 years, they discovered that the design space for them is vastly smaller than other card types. Which... yes, but also you never lost your completely petrifying fear of making any which cost less than 4 or the very occasional 3, and cards which cost MORE than 4-5 generally have to be pretty good to see play in any competitive format?
One thing about that which is really funny to me for very petty reasons, because in those 15 years the dipshits never actually figured out how to make a cheap burn-deck oriented red planeswalker, Chandra or otherwise? LMAO.
Also it seems like overall prices for Magic cards have declined in general over the past few years? I mean reserved list shit still rises but it seems like nearly everything reprintable has declined, including high end promos (except, notably, weeb-art promos).
Interesting.
Anyway, I didn't see a single thing that made we wish I was still playing? I mean, even discounting the fact that Wizards has become a ghastly corporate cesspool for the moment and just looking at it as a game. It was always a gag that cranks would scream Wizards had "run out of ideas" but every card I read seems like such a retread that you wonder if they really have. Course it could just be Corporation Disease making their brains flat rather than Magic not having any design space left, but does that really matter to the end consumer?
