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6/29/2025, 7:44:33 PM
>>95978377
UB and SL is the fortniteification of magic
It started with marvelization, with cold snap tying up some loose ends and then time spiral block being the sendoff and break from the old. Lorwyn block was originally intended to have planeswalkers in it, but the design space got a bit bloated and there were some other issues with adding them in then. But you can really clearly see a complete change of direction with Lorwyn block from everything before it.
WotC started doing this trend for a while of limited-run precon products outside of the normal ones. It really began with Duel Decks but then evolved into a regular-release of "party formats" like Planechase, Archenemy, and coopting EDH into regular Commander releases. The interest in older cards (again, thanks to commander/EDH and in part some of the historical interest produced by Coldsnap and Time Spiral) spurred on the From the Vault line.
The hype around these was in part caused by special promo cards included with each that included reprints of (often much) older cards with updated frames and the card text matching oracle text as well as sometimes new art. Then it moved to being giga expensive limited releases.
The rest is history, we did this to ourselves. I am guilty of, back in my more-retarded days, wanting and buying some of these. I got bit by the Phyrexian Negator hype from the Ph vs Coalition duel decks. I apologize for my hand in contributing to this bullshit.
The other thing is that Arena makes it so any autist can sit at home endlessly testing decks for broken combos against hundreds of other people. It's accelerated the evolution of deckbuilding to the point R&D can't keep up, hence banlists exploding after it was released, infinite combos being found regularly within standard, and so on. It makes WotC too much money to kill, but it's going to burn their game out faster.
UB and SL is the fortniteification of magic
It started with marvelization, with cold snap tying up some loose ends and then time spiral block being the sendoff and break from the old. Lorwyn block was originally intended to have planeswalkers in it, but the design space got a bit bloated and there were some other issues with adding them in then. But you can really clearly see a complete change of direction with Lorwyn block from everything before it.
WotC started doing this trend for a while of limited-run precon products outside of the normal ones. It really began with Duel Decks but then evolved into a regular-release of "party formats" like Planechase, Archenemy, and coopting EDH into regular Commander releases. The interest in older cards (again, thanks to commander/EDH and in part some of the historical interest produced by Coldsnap and Time Spiral) spurred on the From the Vault line.
The hype around these was in part caused by special promo cards included with each that included reprints of (often much) older cards with updated frames and the card text matching oracle text as well as sometimes new art. Then it moved to being giga expensive limited releases.
The rest is history, we did this to ourselves. I am guilty of, back in my more-retarded days, wanting and buying some of these. I got bit by the Phyrexian Negator hype from the Ph vs Coalition duel decks. I apologize for my hand in contributing to this bullshit.
The other thing is that Arena makes it so any autist can sit at home endlessly testing decks for broken combos against hundreds of other people. It's accelerated the evolution of deckbuilding to the point R&D can't keep up, hence banlists exploding after it was released, infinite combos being found regularly within standard, and so on. It makes WotC too much money to kill, but it's going to burn their game out faster.
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