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My next Play or Draw article will focus on improving the Core Game. Orgg has written twice on the subject, and my article will encourage other players to join in this opinion and speak to WotC about it.
If you'd like to see the Core Game improved for beginners, please write to WotC. Feel free to use my letter below as a template:
Dear Wizards of the Coast,
It is understood that the purpose of the Core Game is to introduce Magic: The Gathering to new players, and not to be another group of cards for veteran players to collect. However, as a veteran Magic player, I would like to see the quality of cards in the Core Game improved for the benefit of new players.
I applaud the reasoning behind your card choices, which are no doubt the result of solid research. Despite being a good introductory pool of cards, the selection in the Core Game is inadequate to start playing with against other people. How can a beginner possibly hope to stand up to casual players with cards like Eager Cadet and Sea Eagle?
When other preconstructed decks come with rares like Broodstar, Pulse of the Tangle, Joiner Adept, Goblin King or Fleeting Image, what kind of message does that send to a new player who just paid a higher price to get the Core Game and its rares of Vizzerdrix and Trained Orgg? Though it is an uncertainty that a first time player who purchases the Core Game will move on to play Magic, insulting them with poor cards they can't even play with seems like it will quell their desire to participate in games with other players.
The offending cards in the Core Game are as follows: Eager Cadet, Fugitive Wizard, Honor Guard, Index, Patagia Golem, Rod of Ruin, Sacred Nectar, Sanctimony, Sea Eagle and Vizzerdrix. There are much better cards, which are suitable for beginners, that can go into the Core Game. Eager Cadet can easily be replaced by the highly usable Suntail Hawk, for example. Making similar adjustments to the rest of the offending card slots will surely help beginners to feel better about their collections and likely purchase more Magic: The Gathering products.
You made the wise decision to split the less suitable of the Core Game out from the Core set with Eighth Edition. The basis being that the cards were not suitable for veteran players to see in packs. The fact is, many of the cards are not suitable for anyone to see in their collections at all.
The more beginners you encourage to play further, the more players I can interact with. It is a winning situation for not only the company, but the playing community, if you improve the card pool in the Core Game.
Thank you,
-Sean "Sefro" Roney
kwbishop@hotmail.com
If you'd like to see the Core Game improved for beginners, please write to WotC. Feel free to use my letter below as a template:
Dear Wizards of the Coast,
It is understood that the purpose of the Core Game is to introduce Magic: The Gathering to new players, and not to be another group of cards for veteran players to collect. However, as a veteran Magic player, I would like to see the quality of cards in the Core Game improved for the benefit of new players.
I applaud the reasoning behind your card choices, which are no doubt the result of solid research. Despite being a good introductory pool of cards, the selection in the Core Game is inadequate to start playing with against other people. How can a beginner possibly hope to stand up to casual players with cards like Eager Cadet and Sea Eagle?
When other preconstructed decks come with rares like Broodstar, Pulse of the Tangle, Joiner Adept, Goblin King or Fleeting Image, what kind of message does that send to a new player who just paid a higher price to get the Core Game and its rares of Vizzerdrix and Trained Orgg? Though it is an uncertainty that a first time player who purchases the Core Game will move on to play Magic, insulting them with poor cards they can't even play with seems like it will quell their desire to participate in games with other players.
The offending cards in the Core Game are as follows: Eager Cadet, Fugitive Wizard, Honor Guard, Index, Patagia Golem, Rod of Ruin, Sacred Nectar, Sanctimony, Sea Eagle and Vizzerdrix. There are much better cards, which are suitable for beginners, that can go into the Core Game. Eager Cadet can easily be replaced by the highly usable Suntail Hawk, for example. Making similar adjustments to the rest of the offending card slots will surely help beginners to feel better about their collections and likely purchase more Magic: The Gathering products.
You made the wise decision to split the less suitable of the Core Game out from the Core set with Eighth Edition. The basis being that the cards were not suitable for veteran players to see in packs. The fact is, many of the cards are not suitable for anyone to see in their collections at all.
The more beginners you encourage to play further, the more players I can interact with. It is a winning situation for not only the company, but the playing community, if you improve the card pool in the Core Game.
Thank you,
-Sean "Sefro" Roney
kwbishop@hotmail.com