Quote Originally Posted by Koby View Post
Ya it's a bogus "market research" example. More akin to the chicken & the egg.

R&D makes Blue good stuff for years.
R&D asks players, "o hai guys, you can haz guilds?"
Everyone picks Blue.
R&D is reinforced that Blue is indeed the nutter butters, continues to make awesome Blue cards.

Let's try another example, with an audience of American sport spectators:
"What's your favorite sport?"
A: American football
B: Basketball
C: Baseball
D: Real football
E: Figure skating.

Looks like it would be overwhelming sports with balls in them. What a shocker!
To be fair, it's not clear here that people are choosing these guilds because "zomg blue!" as opposed to opting for the flavors of the guilds. I chose Izzet because I liked their flavor, even though Golgari was my favorite guild mechanically in the first Ravnica.