It’s literally the same as them telling us “only 7% of people really dislike UB, trust us we do the research.” It’s just some C-suite exec paying for surveys to get the results they already decided on being true.

I think my issue is it’s only one or the other. In its arcane signet mode it’s narrowed to only creatures. If you don’t need the mana you need to connect on damage. I think about something like The Great Henge is ubiquitous because it does both of those things and more for basically the same MV.

Continuing the times honored tradition of people being real fucking bad at evaluating cards.

It really feels like this was the only one allowed to be cool af, while the rest were designed to be basically unplayable in constructed.

It feels like a Timmy trap tbh.

You’re a fucking embarrassment.

In many ways I think the reason we have UB at all in standard is literally to both fulfill that want for less overall products, for products to be more expensive to offset that loss and maintain standards power level. They can justify everything to designers, shareholders and customers equally.

The concept of having a minimum of four premium sets this year (up from two last year) is just completely lost on people.

They can’t understand the want for less product naturally means some product lines HAD to become more expensive as Hasbro/WotC are a corporation after all and line must go up.

I think when the first set launched I did the rough maths on how much product you’d have to open to have a mathematical chance at opening all of the special commander showcase variants and it was north of $10k worth of product.

A lot of people are very purposeful in magic with what arts or frames they choose for their decks and while I can agree it does help with some aspects of keeping game pieces affordable, it comes at a cost of alienating everyone but the whales.

My biggest issue with the game is the art style, and the fact that if you want a cool version of your commander, that’s gonna cost you several hundred dollars because they’re purposefully extremely rare pulls. When even your 1v1 format is based around commanders, that’s a bad look imo.

Are you even reading what you’re typing? How is poor little Chris Cocks supposed to afford eggs if he has to pay employees money? Now you want more employees?! Untenable. /s

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If standard wasn’t dead before it is now lolol. Solid decision making skills.

Does LotR cost just as much as Spiderman? As Avatar? FF? 40K? It’s almost impossible to imagine these all costing the same for Hasbro/WotC, but yet more muddy we really just don’t know and that’s going to heavily favor the corporation because the public is just kind of in the dark on the reality.

Well, when CAN these UB designs be reprinted? Can they at all? Did they have to be UW versions, etc?

We have no idea what these contracts actually say and that lets WotC/Hasbro really a lot of leeway into how they want to publicly frame these partnerships.

I think when you let a Hasbro like corporation set those terms for the first time in a new marketing space, this is the inevitable solution they design.

The ambiguity even from the jump with the walking dead imo played a big part in how the next contracts were probably written.

It was something new and new something I think we really don’t see replicated in other TCGs, so “the established rules” or norms didn’t exist. Where as the agreement for Coca-Cola sponsoring part of a movie is they get to put their product in plain view; that’s the deal. That’s the established norm.

I don’t think it’s reasonable but I think the cover it’s given is just the ambiguity around the topic.

Ever since the beginning of UB, multiple aspects of this new ‘thing’ were muddy, probably a little bit incidentally and little bit purposefully.