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Do you think Wizards will ever again print dual lands that are better than shocks?
The whole point of this endeavor is to make large sanctioned paper legacy a possibility again, with stores getting wotc rewards for hosting legacy tournaments. That will never happen as long as a) wotc refuses to acknowledge legacy events with legal proxies and b) duals (which practically every legacy deck requires) cost $500+ per land and rising every year and c) the duals remain substantially superior to all alternatives, so much so that players playing shocks instead of duals lose 10% of the games they play purely due to not being able to afford duals.
You can tackle any of those 3 issues, a) asking wotc to sanction and reward stores for holding legacy tournaments even if they allow proxies, b) asking for the reserve list to be done away with, or c) asking for new duals that are much closer in powerlevel to the original duals (they make your opponent gain a life or peek at a random card in your hand when they enter the battlefield untapped) or as Mr. Safety proposed below, asking that the fastlands be errataed to be made fetchable.
I would prefer a and b but wotc has not budged on either issue for the past two decades. They strenghtened the reserve list in 2010 so it's not going anywhere. This thread is about c, either asking wotc print new duals that are much closer in powerlevel to the abur duals and make them uncommons so that people can readily access them, or errata existing duals to make them fetchable.
Would anyone here mind if Wizards printed the following cards into a legacy and commander only set such as Commander Legends 2?
Selesnya Garden
Forest Plains
When ~ etb, it enters tapped unless you either have each opponent gain a life or reveal a card at random from your hand to everyone
Boros Garden
Mountain Plains
When ~ etb, it enters tapped unless you either have each opponent gain a life or reveal a card at random from your hand to everyone
Golgari Garden
Swamp Forest
When ~ etb, it enters tapped unless you either have each opponent gain a life or reveal a card at random from your hand to everyone
Izzet Garden
Island Mountain
When ~ etb, it enters tapped unless you either have each opponent gain a life or reveal a card at random from your hand to everyone
Dimir Garden
Swamp Island
When ~ etb, it enters tapped unless you either have each opponent gain a life or reveal a card at random from your hand to everyone
And a cycle of these same lands for the other 5 guilds as well.
Does anyone think doing so would violate the reserve list in any way? If not, then why aren't we asking Wizards to do just that?
With duals that close to the originals in power level, I wouldn't even bother taking my duals out of their binder. Why play with $1000 cards and risk getting them damaged or stolen when alternatives exist that are 99.9% as good. I am sure lots of other players will find these duals close enough to the originals that they wouldn't feel like they are handicapping themselves by playing them instead of the $500-1000 duals, where as Shocklands costing you 10% of your life total each time was an actual drawback that costs people games fairly often.
Another approach is...
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Grizzlenasty
To put them even closer to ABUR duals in powerlevel while not exceeding them, they could add a negative "Once upon a time" style clause. - If it's your first landdrop of the game, opponent gains live, may scry1, you reveal the top card of your library, exile the top card of your library face down.. yadayada.. thousand possibilities with little to no drawback while 1) not violating reserve and 2) not outright costing you games like shocks and 3) technically still being worse then real duals
Thats a great idea. A minor drawback that only occurs the first time you cast a land of that type, or better yet, a minor drawback that only occurs if that land is your first landdrop of the game.
This would be a great way to ensure the prestige format of magic, legacy can continue to exist as a paper format with sanctioned events and a healthy player base with annual growth, rather than a stagnant player base that will eventually cause the format to die out entirely the way that vintage has, all while also making wotc some money (legacy players buy cards and secret lairs as well).
Yet another...
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Mr. Safety
...option would be to errata all of the different dual lands to their corresponding land types, ie Woodland Cemetery is now a Forest Swamp. Honestly, it would make a lot of sense to do this, it's a logical move. It wouldn't be perfect, but a land like Blooming Marsh would be practically identical to Bayou because legacy runs on such a low land count.
Fetchable fastlands will never be quite as good as duals, but a list with a 1 of fetchable fastland along with 4 on color fetches, 4 prismatic vista and 5 basics will perform just as well as an identical list with reserve list duals instead of fastlands 99% of the time. And that will be good enough for people on a budget.
Do you think Wizards should errata some of the older lands to make them fetchable, and would that make legacy friendlier to cheaper non reserve list manabases?
I actually really love the idea to errata some of the other dual lands to have the land types added to them.
Changing all the infect creatures and Inkmoth Nexus to make them Phyrexians is a functional errata. It makes them all die to Engineer.
If that is okay, then erratating Blooming Marsh to be a forest swamp is no different.
If they’re willing to errata all the infect creatures for flavor reasons, even if it hurts infect players, they could easily errata these lands to make them more playable and useful in the eternal formats.
The main reason not to would be because they wont make as much money as they would selling players new duals and secret lair shocks every few years. But if the players demand them to, they *might* just to make the players happy.
It wont violate the reserve list and will have zero impact on the price of duals but it will make everyones non dual lands more useful.
That will make...
1. A lot of wotc customers happy.
2. Bridge the gap between the powerlevel of budget legacy/modern decks and nonbudget decks.
3. Make a lot of the nonreserve list duals lands from core sets that stores are sitting on more valuable and increase their sellable inventory.
4. Lead to some modern and pioneer players trying their hand at legacy and potentially rejuvenate an eternal format.
I dont know why people keep claiming wizards doesnt care about legacy. Yes they wont violate the reserve list due to fear of a lawsuit, but thats not evidence that they dont care about legacy.
Legacy players are among Magics longest and most loyal customers.
Legacy, Vintage and commander are the only eternal formats. God knows Vintage is never going to be a paper format again but Legacy very well could. The majority of legacy decks do not require any reserve list cards to build, except for the dual lands.
Eternal formats show the history of the game and people are more willing to spend money in older games and in older formats that they grew up with. MtG being a 30 yr old game is precisely why people are willing to spend more money on it than they would be into a 5 yr old tcg. So a errata like this that could make legacy far more accessible to more players without violating the reserve list would be a wonderful thing for both the format’s accessibility and also for hasbro in the long run.
Making loyal long term customers happy is a good thing for a company like hasbro to do every once in a while.
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Do you think Wizards will ever again print dual lands that are significantly more powerful than the shock lands or triomes?
Legacy is dying, in a large part because dual lands cost $500+ and the only other fetchable lands that come close (shock lands), make you sacrifice 10% of your starting life total every time you play one untapped. Commander decks also cost massive amounts due in large part to requiring $500 duals. No, the issue isn't simply the reserve list. More than half of all legacy viable decks do not require any reserve list cards except for the duals. If Wizards ever releases duals that are not as devastating to your life total as shocklands are, they would lower the barrier of entry for legacy quite significantly. Players on a budget won't mind playing slightly inferior dual lands as long as the deck doesn't end up losing a large percentage of games due to the budget card. Where as losing 2 life every time you play a land is going to decrease your win percentage substantially. Having your opponent gain 1 life (or take a peek at a random card in your hand) every time you play a land is not going to cost you anywhere near as many games.
Yes Wizards promised to never reprint dual lands. But that doesn't mean that they can't print duals that are a lot more powerful than the shocklands in some product that is only legal in legacy and commander, such as one of the universe beyond sets.
How about a legacy and commander only fetchable shockland that only shocks you for 1 life to play untapped? Or better yet, one that makes your opponent gain a life? Or makes your opponent scry a card, or reveals the top card of your library to your opponent in order to play it untapped? Or perhaps fetchable triome lands that can be played untapped by having your opponent gain 3 life? The options are literally limitless. And all of these would be significant upgrades to the shocklands and closer to dual lands in power level. They would also be extremely affordable since the whales and investors would prefer the superior duals even if they cost 20x as much as these lands. So these lands would strictly be sought after by players looking to enter legacy or commander on a tight budget.
Is there anything stopping Wizards from releasing such lands in a Universes beyond (legacy and commander only) set? If not, I think it's just a matter of when, rather than if. Do you agree?
What fetch able lands would you like to see?
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What fetch able lands would you like to see?
None fetches are a bad design decision
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Universes beyond cards only being legal in legacy and commander seems like a huge sign than Wotc actively cares about these formats, atleast enough to design an annual set of cards just for them. Printing reasonable dual alternatives would be an even bigger sign that they want to see legacy as a format be affordable once again.
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None fetches are a bad design decision
I think you misunderstood the question. I am not asking what fetchlands would you like to see. I am asking what duals would you like to see that are much closer in powerlevel to the reserve list duals while not being identical (in order to provide an entry point to legacy for newer players).
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I think you misunderstood the answer. I do not want more lands that can be fetched and make fetchlands more powerful.
This reasoning doesn't make sense. None of the current legacy decks play all 4 copies of any dual land. So whether 4 fetchable duals exist or 8, fetches would not be any more powerful and there is absolutely no reason to think that the number of duals and fetches in decks would increase.
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I think you misunderstood the question. I am not asking what fetchlands would you like to see. I am asking what duals would you like to see that are much closer in powerlevel to the reserve list duals while not being identical (in order to provide an entry point to legacy for newer players).
I think you misunderstood the answer. I do not want more lands that can be fetched and make fetchlands more powerful.
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Clark Kant
I think you misunderstood the question. I am not asking what fetchlands would you like to see. I am asking what duals would you like to see that are much closer in powerlevel to the reserve list duals while not being identical (in order to provide an entry point to legacy for newer players).
You already got the answer to this from user "Purple Blood" in the MH2 preview thread, why do you need to make another thread about it
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I don't see how that is a solution. When it comes to competitive play, its obviously not a solution because no matter what its a competitive disadvantage. When it comes to non-competitive play, proxies are already commonplace so this changes nothing as anyone would rather just proxy a dual than play with suboptimal cards.
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Yes, they will--when sales start to flag.
But really, there's no reason why they couldn't make better duals--e.g. ETB gain 1 life, ETB mill you or your opponent, ETB scry 1, or a 1/1 dual creature with haste (well, that may not be better, but it's interesting and close to Dryad Arbor's model).
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There is no reason for WotC to cater to the non-modern eternal community because it's small and they don't make much money from them since they buy singles only.
You can see it pretty clearly that they just port everything in legacy they like to modern in MH2.
Just like vintage, legacy will die/become a proxy/big boys only format.
For commander it's not so much of an issue since there are already a shit load of other lands available and it's a singleton format.
If it ever comes to it, I'd rather think they just ban the reserved list since there are a few cards on that which are stupidly priced.
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It is absolutely clear they won't dismiss the vast amount of money they could make by reprinting RL cards some day. Hasbro has explicitly set them the goal to significantly increase the game's profits and the direction the game has taken for the last 2 years shows it. I'm pretty sure they are considering an abolishment or at least a redefinition of the RL. Just sell it as a move to make the game "more accessible" or some other PR-bullshit and no one would ever be upset.
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WOTC are already doing better every year, year over year, selling regular stuff, in spite of how messed up formats were for that stretch from war of the spark onwards for a few years. Nobody cares about paper legacy or vintage outside of boomers who don't buy sealed product anyways, and everyone else interested will completely shift onto mtgo if they haven't already. They have already printed a ton of alright alternatives that satisfy 90% of the edh player base, which leaves the tiny demographic of sweaty cedh players who actually care about getting duals, but they are putting things like tabernacle, bazzar, workshop or twister into their decks, or are just straight up proxying already so duals aren't that big of a deal.
They don't really have a reason to stir that pot and print duals/ reserve list like cards unless it is as a saving grace for when they go on a streak of screwing up for 5+ solid years of printing terrible sets/ products that destroy format metas among countless other terrible decisions that threaten to completely ruin the game. But that would basically require them to basically do a blunder on the scale of making a Secret Lair: Misogynistic Racist White Supremacists product containing a Hitler/ Trump meld card with art by Noah Bradley in it.
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The other option is to print different fetches. Tap, pay 1 life, search your library for a land that can produce Black and Green...rather than a Swamp or Forest. Then cards like Blooming Marsh, Woodland Cemetary, and even cards like Hissing Quagmire are available.
My opinion is that WOTC is actively trying to make the RL go away for competitive play's sake, but to do it in a way that doesn't affect collectors as much. How they do it is beyond me, but i genuinely think they will.
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Universes beyond cards only being legal in legacy and commander seems like a huge sign than Wotc actively cares about these formats, atleast enough to design an annual set of cards just for them.
You got that wrong. Commander is the most popular format by far and thus they're catering to their cash cow. High-powered Commander products also being Eternal-legal is just a side effect, not a sign that they actively care about Eternal.
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The other option is to print different fetches. Tap, pay 1 life, search your library for a land that can produce Black and Green...rather than a Swamp or Forest. Then cards like Blooming Marsh, Woodland Cemetary, and even cards like Hissing Quagmire are available.
My opinion is that WOTC is actively trying to make the RL go away for competitive play's sake, but to do it in a way that doesn't affect collectors as much. How they do it is beyond me, but i genuinely think they will.
This runs into the same problem as printing better shocks, as it doesn't replace duals.
But it does give the added bonus of being completely broken and allowing you to run 20 copies of any land do y long as it produces a colored mana
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Mr. Safety
The other option is to print different fetches. Tap, pay 1 life, search your library for a land that can produce Black and Green...rather than a Swamp or Forest. Then cards like Blooming Marsh, Woodland Cemetary, and even cards like Hissing Quagmire are available.
My opinion is that WOTC is actively trying to make the RL go away for competitive play's sake, but to do it in a way that doesn't affect collectors as much. How they do it is beyond me, but i genuinely think they will.
Dropping Vintage and Legacy as sanctioned paper formats would do the trick. (Let's be honest, if they make new fetches/duals they will be with Commander in mind and make them nearly useless for 60-card Magic, because that is where the money is.)
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Wrath of Pie
Dropping Vintage and Legacy as sanctioned paper formats would do the trick. (Let's be honest, if they make new fetches/duals they will be with Commander in mind and make them nearly useless for 60-card Magic, because that is where the money is.)
Didn't they already do this?
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Didn't they already do this?
Not officially, they're still keeping up the pretense of relevance.
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I agree that Wizards will do whatever makes them money and also that the only format with duals they care about is Commander. And they've already printed functional duals for commander, the Luxury Suite, Morphic Pool cycle.
I would expect more like that, maybe ones with the actual land types. Especially if they just bite the bullet and ban fetchlands in every format like they should.
But I think in terms of duals they'll break the reserved list before obsoleting the original duals, because the only function Legacy and Vintage have is as prestige formats to flash big dollars at. So they might just go back to what the reserve list was before the Negator kerfluffle and only print a super limited amount of promo duals and other RL cards.
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FourDogsinaHorseSuit
This runs into the same problem as printing better shocks, as it doesn't replace duals.
But it does give the added bonus of being completely broken and allowing you to run 20 copies of any land...
The point would be to open up almost the entire history of different dual lands to be fetched, which makes having dual lands not as important. If players don't need duals then the duals should drastically drop in price. This would make a bunch of lands functionally identical to dual lands, which is what needs to happen for competitive play if the RL stays in place. That is just my opinion, just something to banter about. I think it would shake up the entire paradigm of the game because it would go from having the most optimal mana fixing with fetch/dual mana-bases, which still isn't perfect, to everyone has perfect mana for whataver you want to do. I think Hearthstone gives us a small glimpse of what that would look like.
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Mr. Safety
The point would be to open up almost the entire history of different dual lands to be fetched, which makes having dual lands not as important. If players don't need duals then the duals should drastically drop in price. This would make a bunch of lands functionally identical to dual lands, which is what needs to happen for competitive play if the RL stays in place. That is just my opinion, just something to banter about. I think it would shake up the entire paradigm of the game because it would go from having the most optimal mana fixing with fetch/dual mana-bases, which still isn't perfect, to everyone has perfect mana for whataver you want to do. I think Hearthstone gives us a small glimpse of what that would look like.
Except those lands aren't better than duals, so unless you're already maxed out on duals you still won't be picking any of them up.
Instead you've made Cradle, sanctum, and coffers fetchable
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That's a fair point.
Another option would be to errata all of the different dual lands to their corresponding land types, ie Woodland Cemetery is now a Forest Swamp. Honestly, it would make a lot of sense to do this, it's a logical move. It wouldn't be perfect, but a land like Blooming Marsh would be practically identical to Bayou because legacy runs on such a low land count.
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Mr. Safety
That's a fair point.
Another option would be to errata all of the different dual lands to their corresponding land types, ie Woodland Cemetery is now a Forest Swamp. Honestly, it would make a lot of sense to do this, it's a logical move. It wouldn't be perfect, but a land like Blooming Marsh would be practically identical to Bayou because legacy runs on such a low land count.
Again, even if Blooming Marsh was a budget Bayou, I would lose a non-zero number of games where I draw the Marsh and it enters tapped. So even if all the checks/fast lands were fetchable, you won't be picking them up. The only way to make people not play duals is to either print some super strong dual hate (A special price of progress that deals 3+ damage for each land with multiple land types maybe, or a mini Helldozer) or ban them.
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Fetchable horizon canopies.
Thats how you get everyone to change.
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Fetchable horizon canopies.
Thats how you get everyone to change.
Sounds dope to me.
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Given that they went out of their way to ban them in Historic, and will probably soon add Prismatic Vista to that list and maybe even Guided Passage, I think it's safe to say that Wizards recognizes that fetchlands are just bad game design, and responsible for almost all of the cards that have been banned in Legacy for instance in the past decade or so- Astrolabe, delve cards, Deathrite, Top, W&6 etc. would all still be legal if fetchlands were banned instead. Hell even Survival would be pretty fair.
It seems silly then to imagine them printing more of the fucking things
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That's a fair point.
Another option would be to errata all of the different dual lands to their corresponding land types, ie Woodland Cemetery is now a Forest Swamp. Honestly, it would make a lot of sense to do this, it's a logical move. It wouldn't be perfect, but a land like Blooming Marsh would be practically identical to Bayou because legacy runs on such a low land count.
I actually really love the idea to errata some of the other dual lands to have the land types added to them.
If they’re willing to errata all the infect creatures for flavor reasons, even if it hurts infect players, they could easily errata these lands to make them more playable and useful in the eternal formats.
The main reason not to would be because they wont make as much money as they would selling players new duals and secret lair shocks every few years. But if the players demand them to, they *might* just to make the players happy.
It wont violate the reserve list and will have zero impact on the price of duals but it will make everyones non dual lands more useful.
That will make...
1. A lot of wotc customers happy.
2. Bridge the gap between the powerlevel of budget legacy/modern decks and nonbudget decks.
3. Make a lot of the duals lands that stores are sitting on more valuable and increase their sellable inventory.
4. Lead to some modern and pioneer players trying their hand at legacy and potentially rejuvenate an eternal format.
I dont know why people keep claiming wizards doesnt care about legacy. Yes they wont violate the reserve list due to fear of a lawsuit, but thats not evidence that they dont care about legacy.
Legacy players are among Magics longest and most loyal customers.
Legacy, Vintage and commander are the only eternal formats. God knows Vintage is never going to be a paper format again but Legacy very well could. Eternal formats show the history of the game and older games gain more respect. MtG being a 30 yr old game is precisely why people are willing to spend more money on it than they would be into a 5 yr old game. So a errata like this that could make legacy far more accessible to more players without violating the reserve list would be a wonderful thing for both the format and for hasbro in the long run.
Making loyal long term customers happy is a good thing for a company like hasbro to do every once in a while.
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That's a fair point.
Another option would be to errata all of the different dual lands to their corresponding land types, ie Woodland Cemetery is now a Forest Swamp. Honestly, it would make a lot of sense to do this, it's a logical move. It wouldn't be perfect, but a land like Blooming Marsh would be practically identical to Bayou because legacy runs on such a low land count.
Mr. Safety, is there any possibility that you could update the thread title to...
Do you think Wizards should errata some of the older lands to make them fetchable, and would that make legacy friendlier to cheaper non reserve list manabases?
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Mr. Safety, is there any possibility that you could update the thread title to...
Do you think Wizards should errata some of the older lands to make them fetchable, and would that make legacy friendlier to cheaper non reserve list manabases?
It's absolutely naive to expect something like that.
Creature type erratas are one thing, fully functional erratas something else.
They only rarely do functional errata, mostly when they screwed up the wording on a new card (Hi, Hostage Taker) or a new card/mechanic is introduced that plays badly with something they don't really care about because it was printed in Visions or some other ancient set.
Sometimes they get the bright idea to "restore a card to it's intended functionality".
That is either completely irrelevant or busted like Flash or Time Vault.
Adding basic types to random duals also has much more implications and many more interactions then being fetchable.
As previously stated, fetches themselves are terrible and created more and more issues as the years go on.
At least they started to realize that and banned them in Pioneer.
Pioneer itself shows their current "long term plan" for eternal formats.
Every few years introduce a new "eternal" format with an arbitrary cutoff date and push that.
Then they ramp down the support for older "eternal" formats and let them die/let people be priced out.
As result people switch to the newer format and have to buy more cards.
It's much easier and profitable for them to just let Legacy die then support it longer.
Considering some recent printings I wouldn't be surprised if they are actively trying to kill it.
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Just for funsies, consider:
Mangrove Forest
Land - Forest
Uncommon
T: Add G or U or B
Somewhat less fetchable, way better than a dual (it's a triple!), doesn't violate the reserved list, and at uncommon it's not going to break the bank.
Not unlike Murmuring Bosk, really, so there's some precedent along those lines, even if this is strictly better than that.
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Making loyal long term customers happy is a good thing for a company like hasbro to do every once in a while.
I assume "long term customers" means Vintage and Legacy players? Hasbro will "once in a while" release a Modern Horizons-type set to distract those customers with shiny new toys. This of course lasts for 5 minutes, then threads like this one pop up.
Hasbro only needs to put out a Horizons set to get some cash from Eternal players because most already have cards and rely solely on the secondary market for new singles. The money comes from new players who buy packs for Standard. I'm 100% sure that such net-new players' spending dwarfs the average Eternal (minus EDH) players' spending on sealed product.
TLDR, It's been said so many times before,Hasbro doesn't care about Vintage and Legacy because they can't monetize this market.
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It's absolutely naive to expect something like that.
Creature type erratas are one thing, fully functional erratas something else.
Changing all the infect creatures and Inkmoth Nexus to make them Phyrexians is a functional errata. It makes them all die to Engineer.
If that is okay, then erratating Blooming Marsh to be a forest swamp is no different.
Errata only the duals like Blooming Marsh where it makes sense to do so and keeps the duals inferior to the reserve list cards. Hell package the errataed lands together into a secret lair and lots of legacy players would buy them as cheap alternatives to $1000 dual lands ($4000 for a playset).
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At least they started to realize that and banned them in Pioneer.
Pioneer itself shows their current "long term plan" for eternal formats.
Every few years introduce a new "eternal" format with an arbitrary cutoff date and push that.
Then they ramp down the support for older "eternal" formats and let them die/let people be priced out.
As result people switch to the newer format and have to buy more cards.
It's much easier and profitable for them to just let Legacy die then support it longer.
Considering some recent printings I wouldn't be surprised if they are actively trying to kill it.
You had me until here. Pioneer isn't indicative of any eternal plans and they've basically dropped off a cliff.
Also between premodern, old school, middle school and whatever else the community is making more non-rotating formats then anyone else
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You had me until here. Pioneer isn't indicative of any eternal plans and they've basically dropped off a cliff.
Also between premodern, old school, middle school and whatever else the community is making more non-rotating formats then anyone else
Well, I would agree that Pioneer is a special case.
They were basically forced to create it to take the steam of Frontier.
However, they also cannot sanction too many formats a time to not fragmentize the player base too much.
At this point it think I would have made more sense to bring back Extended.
That is reasonably "eternal" while also offering the possibility to get rid of degenerate cards by rotation.
Small community formats will always be a thing but most of them don't get enough attention or die due to the community being shit at managing anything.
RIP Highlander, screw Commander.
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Changing all the infect creatures and Inkmoth Nexus to make them Phyrexians is a functional errata. It makes them all die to Engineer.
If that is okay, then erratating Blooming Marsh to be a forest swamp is no different.
Errata only the duals like Blooming Marsh where it makes sense to do so and keeps the duals inferior to the reserve list cards. Hell package the errataed lands together into a secret lair and lots of legacy players would buy them as cheap alternatives to $1000 dual lands ($4000 for a playset).
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Errata only the duals like Blooming Marsh where it makes sense to do so and keeps the duals inferior to the reserve list cards.
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inferior to the reserve list cards.
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You already got the answer to this from user "Purple Blood" in the MH2 preview thread, why do you need to make another thread about it
I don't see how that is a solution. When it comes to competitive play, its obviously not a solution because no matter what its a competitive disadvantage. When it comes to non-competitive play, proxies are already commonplace so this changes nothing as anyone would rather just proxy a dual than play with suboptimal cards.
Please just stop posting lol
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The whole point of this endeavor is to make large sanctioned paper legacy a possibility again, with stores getting wotc rewards for hosting legacy tournaments. That will never happen as long as wotc refuses to acknowledge legacy events with legal proxies and duals and cities and cradles cost $500 and rising every year and the duals remain substantially superior to all alternatives. You can tackle any of those issues, asking wotc to sanction and reward stores for holding tournaments even if they allow proxies, asking for the reserve list to be done away with, asking for new duals that are much closer in powerlevel to the original duals (they make your opponent gain a life or peek at a random card in your hand when they enter the battlefield untapped) or asking that the fastlands be errataed to be made fetchable.
Fetchable fastlands will never be quite as good as duals, but a list with a 1 of fetchable fastland along with 4 on color fetches, 4 prismatic vista and 5 basics will perform just as well as an identical list with reserve list duals instead of fastlands 99% of the time. And that will be good enough for people on a budget.
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Zoid
At this point it think I would have made more sense to bring back Extended.
That is reasonably "eternal" while also offering the possibility to get rid of degenerate cards by rotation.
God no. Very happy they went with a nonrotating format instead of reintroducing extended.
They consistently print as many degenerate cards every year as rotate out so that reason doesnt make sense.
The whole appeal of nonrotating formats like legacy, modern, pioneer, commander and historic is that your decks and cards continue to be legal no matter how much time has passed since you first started playing magic. This is why Brawl will never be as appealing as Commander, and its also why magic players that rotate out of standard stuck around to keep playing modern and legacy decades later, because their favorite cards and decks from when they first started playing magic are only legal in those formats. Pioneer is still new. Modern took some time to accumulate players as well. Give pioneer another decade to accumulate a critical mass of magic players whose favorite cards and decks that they are most nostalgic towards are all from pioneer legal sets, and it could become the next modern.
Wizards unfortunately did sabotage Pioneer by adding nonpioneer legal cards to Historic instead of just expanding Historic by releasing older sets until all Pioneer legal sets make their way onto arena.
But I expect this will be fixed in the next few years quite easily. They will eventually print a Pioneer Horizons set, might even give it a name like Historic Pioneer. The paper version of the set will include all cards that were added to Historic on Arena, while the Arena release of Pioneer Horizons will include all Pioneer cards that havent been printed into Arena yet. Then, they can simply rename Pioneer into Historic or vice versa and this new format will thrive. Hell it will probably even displace modern as the most popular nonrotating 1vs1 format if Arena continues to grow.
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The whole point of this endeavor is to make large sanctioned paper legacy a possibility again, with stores getting wotc rewards for hosting legacy tournaments. That will never happen as long as wotc refuses to acknowledge legacy events with legal proxies and duals and cities and cradles cost $500 and rising every year and the duals remain substantially superior to all alternatives.
Ok
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You can tackle any of those issues, asking wotc to sanction and reward stores for holding tournaments even if they allow proxies
Doesn't seem likely because then what's the incentive for wotc
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asking for the reserve list to be done away with
Has already been tried ad nauseam
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asking for new duals that are much closer in powerlevel to the original duals (they make your opponent gain a life or peek at a random card in your hand when they enter the battlefield untapped) or asking that the fastlands be errataed to be made fetchable.
This isn't a useful suggestion, as people keep trying to explain to you while you just outright ignore them over and over
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Fetchable fastlands will never be quite as good as duals, but a list with a 1 of fetchable fastland along with 4 on color fetches, 4 prismatic vista and 5 basics will perform just as well as an identical list with reserve list duals instead of fastlands 99% of the time. And that will be good enough for people on a budget.
"Fetchable shocklands will never be quite as good as duals, but a list with a 1 of fetchable shockland along with 4 on color fetches, 4 prismatic vista and 5 basics will perform just as well as an identical list with reserve list duals instead of shocklands 99% of the time. And that will be good enough for people on a budget"
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The whole appeal of nonrotating formats like legacy, modern, pioneer, commander and historic is that your decks and cards continue to be legal no matter how much time has passed since you first started playing magic. This is why Brawl will never be as appealing as Commander, and its also why magic players that rotate out of standard stuck around to keep playing modern and legacy decades later, because their favorite cards and decks from when they first started playing magic are only legal in those formats. Pioneer is still new. Modern took some time to accumulate players as well. Give pioneer another decade to accumulate a critical mass of magic players whose favorite cards and decks that they are most nostalgic towards are all from pioneer legal sets, and it could become the next modern.
The idea that people like eternal formats because it lets people continue to play the same archetype they loved from a separate different format is kind of a myth I think. Most of the viable decks in legacy/pioneer/modern bear no resemblance to any archetype from old standards/extendeds (barring a few particular exceptions like maybe Goblins and Enchantress). As the formats grow bigger (more powerful / bigger card pool) it becomes less and less likely that any given standard deck will be able to "cross over" into a given eternal format and it even becomes less likely that individual cards from standard are even good enough to compete.
People like eternal formats because
1. They want to be able to buy into a format and have their deck be relevant for an extended period of time (not necessarily using cards they already happen to own or have used in the past)
2. They want some kind of tournament support for it so they can actually play
When modern was introduced it was 32 sets which is (almost?) exactly the same size as Pioneer when Pioneer was introduced so in terms of the cardpool being stable (and early format bans etc) they aren't too different.
The big difference is
- Pioneer now is competing with modern to some extent which has had players committing to it for many years prior, so even if their introductory offerings are comparable Pioneer would still have a lot of "catching up" to do in terms of appeal
- Modern mostly had tournament support due to quite significant initial commitment from WOTC and this hasn't been possible for pioneer because of COVID
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Wizards unfortunately did sabotage Pioneer by adding nonpioneer legal cards to Historic instead of just expanding Historic by releasing older sets until all Pioneer legal sets make their way onto arena.
If you're just saying "pioneer would be more popular if it was on Arena instead of Historic" then sure
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But I expect this will be fixed in the next few years quite easily. They will eventually print a Pioneer Horizons set, might even give it a name like Historic Pioneer. The paper version of the set will include all cards that were added to Historic on Arena, while the Arena release of Pioneer Horizons will include all Pioneer cards that havent been printed into Arena yet. Then, they can simply rename Pioneer into Historic or vice versa and this new format will thrive. Hell it will probably even displace modern as the most popular nonrotating 1vs1 format if Arena continues to grow.
I think the chances of this happening are close to zero
EDIT: upon further reflection I have revised my initial knee-jerk reaction to the somewhat more moderate "very unlikely"
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- Pioneer now is competing with modern to some extent
"some"
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So, the Reverberate fiasco taught us nothing
They don't print cards that mimic "Good Cards(tm)" from the RP, they tried it with Fork-but-not and their social media messaging was all "so, we got in trouble for Reverberate" and they spent a lot of time talking about how they aren't gonna do that anymore. I promise you if they took enough shit for Reverberate being too close to Fork to generate public apologies then they'll never do anything that edges too close to duals.
Even if that weren't true, 4DogHorse is right about not wanting to make fetchlands more better
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The best idea in this thread was the fetchable duals with only one basic land type. But if I had to bet, WOTC would say that would violate their RL policy.
If that's true then the only way they could make it work is through extremely inelegant means. For example, printing fetchable dual/tri-lands that had a requirement to enter into play untapped that were specific but trivial for certain decks to achieve. A ridiculous, specific example would be something like "enters untapped if [you are playing legacy format / you have X card in your deck / other stupid condition]"
I don't like any of these options to be honest. In the end I couldn't really care less considering the only time I'm playing Legacy in paper is at my LGS that allows proxies. I would assume most people are in that boat or exclusively play online.
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Purple Blood
The best idea in this thread was the fetchable duals with only one basic land type. But if I had to bet, WOTC would say that would violate their RL policy.
If that's true then the only way they could make it work is through extremely inelegant means. For example, printing fetchable dual/tri-lands that had a requirement to enter into play untapped that were specific but trivial for certain decks to achieve. A ridiculous, specific example would be something like "enters untapped if [you are playing legacy format / you have X card in your deck / other stupid condition]"
I don't like any of these options to be honest. In the end I couldn't really care less considering the only time I'm playing Legacy in paper is at my LGS that allows proxies. I would assume most people are in that boat or exclusively play online.
Bosk already exists and the RL list is just a wink wink fiction.
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Bosk already exists and the RL list is just a wink wink fiction.
Yeah but it makes you take damage. It would have to be Bosk without the damage but with the other clause.
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Of course they will print better duals than shocks one day. They will straight up reprint ABUR duals and sell it to you via Scamalot Lair...
it's not like they've never removed cards from the Reserve List before. 23 if I'm correct.