>>150091289
This,
There was a lot of talk about Final Fantasy bringing people into the game and yet in the next month all that happened was even less people showing u[p as everyone who was disgusted with Crossover in the Standard format lost interest.
It really feels like their are two impulses in conflict at Wizards.
One that wants to turn the game into mainly a collectors product, with a ruleset (Commander) as a value add, to which Crossovers and limited time printings are the method.
And another that desperately wants magic as it was to remain important since that's what they grew up with (Standard, Modern, Legacy Pipeline), but has no clear way of doing that besides constant compromises that fucks with it like a man allowing drastic invasive surgery to extend the life of his dying father.
