Interesting article from WOTC
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train
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Well...
It will make it easier for me to collect sets...
It will make it easier for me to collect sets...
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Mikeymike
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I like the smaller base sets for sure, and I think I might even grow to like the larger sub-sets. I think its a good thing - WHICH MEANS IT IS GOSPEL!.
Huh, oh where was I. Yeah, I like it.
Huh, oh where was I. Yeah, I like it.
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Nightstalkers
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Yea, browsed the article before the post... didn't think much of it.
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Apollo
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Pardon the expression, but... duh. Why the sets weren't closer together in size long ago I have no idea.
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Notepad
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Its a promise made on MTG.com, which means by next year WotC will change their mind about it. Anybody remember the laughing stocks known as "Color Wheel" or the promise of "White weenie is coming back" or all the flip-flops on damn near everything they even write about.
You sound like you have a lot of material for more rant columns, SeFRo...
I thought it was interesting enough to link to, 'cause I kinda thought the same as Apollo (though not quite as strongly ) that you usually had to buy 2 boxes of the first expansion in the block to get the cards while a box of the next two almost completed them.
While now a box will fall a bit short even more for the second two, a box will go farther in the first expansion, which I think is a better tradeoff.
But like the article said, I think it had to do with just rounding out the printing sheets or something which is why the first expansion was so big and the second two were smaller.
I thought it was interesting enough to link to, 'cause I kinda thought the same as Apollo (though not quite as strongly
) that you usually had to buy 2 boxes of the first expansion in the block to get the cards while a box of the next two almost completed them.While now a box will fall a bit short even more for the second two, a box will go farther in the first expansion, which I think is a better tradeoff.
But like the article said, I think it had to do with just rounding out the printing sheets or something which is why the first expansion was so big and the second two were smaller.
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Istanbul
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Oh, it's a marketing ploy, all right.
Let's face it...a new expansion comes out (2nd or 3rd set in a block), and you go buy one booster box.
A collector...
...trades his dupes away for the rares he didn't get...trades away a couple of extra cards for the rest of the rares. Sees that he has every uncommon and common, shrugs, and stops buying the set.
A player...
...trades away the rares he doesn't want for rares he does, trades away the uncommons he doesn't want for the uncommons he does, and binders the remainder for trade for future sets. Maybe doesn't even buy a box of one of the two sets.
So after one booster box, both kinds of buyers are satiated.
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Now, let's look at the new plan.
A collector...
...looks at his rares and realizes that even if he trades every dupe away for a card he doesn't have, he'd still only have about 2/3rds of the set. This means he'll either buy another booster box, or trade spares away...and I do mean a lot of spares...for the rares he needs. Will *probably* have every uncommon he needs and every common, but still.
A player...
...has decreased odds of getting the rares and uncommons out of each set that he wants, so he'll have to trade for them. Of course, with larger sets, there will be more in each set that he wants.
This is definitely a marketing ploy to increase demand for packs of the second and third set of each block, and to make each rare a little harder to get - as it is, if you buy a box of an expansion set, you've got a VERY good chance of getting any given rare.
Not that I mind.
Let's face it...a new expansion comes out (2nd or 3rd set in a block), and you go buy one booster box.
A collector...
...trades his dupes away for the rares he didn't get...trades away a couple of extra cards for the rest of the rares. Sees that he has every uncommon and common, shrugs, and stops buying the set.
A player...
...trades away the rares he doesn't want for rares he does, trades away the uncommons he doesn't want for the uncommons he does, and binders the remainder for trade for future sets. Maybe doesn't even buy a box of one of the two sets.
So after one booster box, both kinds of buyers are satiated.
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Now, let's look at the new plan.
A collector...
...looks at his rares and realizes that even if he trades every dupe away for a card he doesn't have, he'd still only have about 2/3rds of the set. This means he'll either buy another booster box, or trade spares away...and I do mean a lot of spares...for the rares he needs. Will *probably* have every uncommon he needs and every common, but still.
A player...
...has decreased odds of getting the rares and uncommons out of each set that he wants, so he'll have to trade for them. Of course, with larger sets, there will be more in each set that he wants.
This is definitely a marketing ploy to increase demand for packs of the second and third set of each block, and to make each rare a little harder to get - as it is, if you buy a box of an expansion set, you've got a VERY good chance of getting any given rare.
Not that I mind.
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train
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They really are hitting into the collectors on this one...
And normally collectors don't have much in the way of extras - they get rid of them as necessary...
I know I don't - I have a trade binder - but then, I'm also a player...
I like the idea of being able to do both - concentrate on getting my set, and play the way I like to...
"Of course I do get quite a few boxes a year..."
And normally collectors don't have much in the way of extras - they get rid of them as necessary...
I know I don't - I have a trade binder - but then, I'm also a player...
I like the idea of being able to do both - concentrate on getting my set, and play the way I like to...
"Of course I do get quite a few boxes a year..."
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Nightstalkers
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I like to play in the T1 casual atmosphere but everyone has the T2 tournaments around here!
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Hmm, get the collectors to sell bundles of old cards for T1 tournaments...
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Hmm, get the collectors to sell bundles of old cards for T1 tournaments...
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Notepad
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>> Interesting perspective regarding the 2nd and 3rd set, but what about the first set? Like I said, I think it evens out...
The key is that they'll put cool cards in the first set, and make their profits there from just moderate Neat Things (tm).
But the Power Stuff (tm) will only be in sets 2 and 3. Just wait and see, this thing will all pan out to WotC's financial favor.
>> You sound like you have a lot of material for more rant columns, SeFRo...
Oh, there will be more of those rants. Rest assured, there'll be more.
The key is that they'll put cool cards in the first set, and make their profits there from just moderate Neat Things (tm).
But the Power Stuff (tm) will only be in sets 2 and 3. Just wait and see, this thing will all pan out to WotC's financial favor.
>> You sound like you have a lot of material for more rant columns, SeFRo...
Oh, there will be more of those rants. Rest assured, there'll be more.