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There's also the whole Masterpieces shebang which can also include Modern staples.
I wish Wizards would get their heads out of their asses and started making supplementary products aside from Modern Masters that introduced new cards. But despite regularly being asked for that, they continue to come up with excuses.
I made a poll on Twitter regarding that topic - feel free to retweet to reach as many people as possible.
It's cool that they've done things like bring back leagues, and are ending the 1-2 month delay for new sets to appear in MTGO - which was just beyond insane, but a lot of this feels like too little too late.
If they're really going to push Frontier over Modern... that's a lot of people who bought into Modern and aren't necessarily going to transfer over. I dunno, I like what the new team is doing, they seem to have far less of the head-ass-insertion issues the old one did, but a lot of straws are piled on that camel's back right now, and if they decide to follow the path of least resistance - "we'll make MTG just like Hearthstone, then people will love us again!" they're going to fail, badly. If they follow the path of second least resistance - franchising MTG into other properties like TV/Comics/RPG's/video games, they're not going to have as much success as they think because story has always been something less than even half of the regular player base has even pretended to care about.
I was under the impression that Frontier is a store-created format, and has very little to no support from the mother ship.Quote:
Originally Posted by morgan_coke
This is correct. Maro has stated that his preferred "Post Modern" Format would not included fetches. (Likely stating at Origins.)Quote:
Originally Posted by rufus
They could also just ban fetches in said format to prevent the trouble of having to deal with fetch reprints in the future.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dice_Box
The fetch/dual paradigm really makes multicolor mana bases much stronger, but shuffling all the time is not great in a paper game.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barook
It also makes Wastelands much more powerful. They could help Modern with this one simple trick...
No chance in hell of that ever happening. Modern would cease to exist before that happens.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barook
I was talking about the Post-Modern format, call it Frontier or whatever silly name Wizards comes up with.Quote:
Originally Posted by jmlima
Fetches in Modern are here to stay, simply because they're guaranteed sells.
On a different note:
Hex now offers weekly tournaments that pay out 1k $ cash total. Makes me wonder why they can do it while Wizards can't on MTGO.
One of the challenges that MTGO has is that it's competing with the 'core business' of paper magic so there will always be internal tension at WotC.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barook
Well, the official reason given by WotC why they can't do cash prizes on MTGO are gambling laws. Yet Hex doesn't seem to care about that.Quote:
Originally Posted by rufus
As far as paper vs online goes, WotC sucks at maximizing profits because they're a terrible company with a good IP.
Still rings true :|Quote:
Originally Posted by PirateKingTo their credit, at least they're consistent in their incompetence.Quote:
Originally Posted by DiceBox
I... what? They do exactly this. On top of all the reprint sets, we're looking at three such products just in the last year:Quote:
Originally Posted by Barook
1. Conspiracy 2
2. Commander 2016
3. (Upcoming) Archenemy Nicol Bolas
And each year we end up with more Conspiracy / Commander / Archenemy / Planechase / whatever.
Archenemy Nicol Bolas has 0 new cards
And none of them are Modern-legal. You're missing my point.Quote:
Originally Posted by MaximumC
Modern legal supplementary sets has been the obvious choice since Modern's inception... but they just don't do it. It would make so much sense: get cards into Modern, cards that would benefit the format, without upsetting Standard.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barook
It's a real frustrating problem. WotC has this baffling duality going on in their approach to Modern.
1.) Modern is being pushed out of the spotlight.
2.) They maintain the old systems that were put in place to keep Modern approachable.
I understand they wanted Modern to be easy to understand. To keep things simple, they just said "No supplementary sets, no exceptions." That sucked, but I could at least understand it. But now that Modern is off the Pro Tour, and there will be no Modern GPTs, why the hell don't they let the players do something to improve the format?
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It's like they said, "Hey, we don't like this format anymore, so we're abandoning it."
And the players are like "Fine, we'll take care of it, because we like it. Here are some things we could do to improve it..."
WotC - "NO! We give up, AND we won't let you try to fix it!"
http://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post...rn-legal-cardsQuote:
Originally Posted by T-101
http://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post...-safeguard-for
tl;dr: WotC are lazy fucks.
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Originally Posted by Barook
LOLLLLLLLLLLLL. Oh, what a comedy show they are.Quote:
Testing for Standard is a way to safeguard for Modern.
its totally unheared of the new cards may become broken, if paired with older cards. /sQuote:
Originally Posted by jmlima
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Originally Posted by Claymore
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Originally Posted by WOTC