When did the decline of Magic begin?

Planeswalkers
With that said, MTG is still good to this day

>>715372268
Not just good, it is

F L O U R I S H I N G

>>715372445
Tarkir was a good set, Edge of Eternities might be a good set, we'll have to see how it plays.
I'm very excited for Lorwyn once we make it past the barrage of UBslop.

after 4th edition. it was shit after that

When they canned the artist for pic related
Also every cross-over set after LotR. LotR gets a pass because Magic was heavily inspired by it, but anything else is shit

>>715372162 (OP)
>When did the decline of Magic begin?
right here
>>715372268
>MTG is still good to this day
L O L

>>715372681
Tarkir was a good set, Edge of Eternities might be a good set, we'll have to see how it plays.
I'm very excited for Lorwyn once we make it past the barrage of UBslop.

>>715372162 (OP)
When cards got valuable and they removed the ante.

>>715372681
Has anyone ever used Thassa's Oracle for anything other than the instant labman effect? Genuine question, since I don't really play constructed. I think you could remove the put in top/bottom part out of it and just check if you instawin and it'd be at like 99% effectiveness

>>715372681
>saved enough words
Absolutely dystopian, no wonder mtgbabs are always whining about yu-gi-oh, their reading is actively inhibited by wotc

Modern Horizons was the straw that broke the camels back
art started being dogshit in kaladesh and battlebond was the tipping point into Korean MMORPG splash art tier slop

After Return to Ravnica.
Truly it was when the 3 set blocks stopped and the game turned into commmmmanderrrrrrrrr.
FUCK COMMANDER.
>have to use the same auto include cards that say commander on them or you can't compete
>its supposed to make more cards viable and fun but it feels like the opposite where nothing is good enough for commander unless its a combo

I played from the release of Onslaught through to Ravnica when I was a little kid
The decline started when I learned how to actually deckbuild through buying singles online instead of frankesteining shitty decks with a bunch of stray cards from packs and trading with my friends. Aesthetics and lore wise I feel like the game was already in decline when I picked it up, Kamigawa was good but Mirrodin and Ravnica were both really lame compared to the older sets that were around when I started playing.
On another note, last I played planeswalkers and the commander format didn't exist, both of those seem like they'd be extremely annoying from what I've seen

???
>>>/tg/

I don’t remember what came first, but if it wasn’t reducing and then ultimately removing the block format, then catering to UB crossover slop definitely did it

>>715372162 (OP)
I play Commander

Banding cards

Nigger are you just gonna post this thread every fucking day? It went to shit with Planeswalkers. Now fuck off to /tg/ if you want to talk about Magic.

>>715372618
Did they ever reprint this card under a new name so you can still play it?

>>715373091
Quite literally never.
If they were so deadset on keeping the instawin, they could have just had it read "if X is greater than", not including equal to. But never forget that wotc deliberately prints broken, unfun cards to sell packs.

You cannot convince me that this new set is not just old rejected Unfinity cards.

It's not just shit, it's FUCKING shit!

>>715376670
AMOGUS

>>715374638
Why would they change the name instead of jsut ordering a new art like they do all the time?

>>715372162 (OP)
>When did the decline of Magic begin?
1998

>>715374638
IT'S RESERVED LIST, YOU FUCKING RETARD

When they sold out their artistic and creative license for cheap pop culture cash grabs because
>I KNOW THAT ONE OMG SPONGEBOB

>>715372162 (OP)
Super Rares or whatever they're called

>>715373934
commander is fun, but it turning into a cashcow made wotc shit out cards designed around commander.
for me the real horror is:
>venture into the dungeon/take the initiative
>the ring tempts you
powergap
>companions

>>715376670
>Amogus card
lmao they’re really scraping the bottom of the barrel

>>715372493
>Marvel UB coming
>then Avatar UB coming
>finally we arrived at Lorwin
Speaking of the story, what happened after the 2nd mending happened and phyrexians were rekt? what's the big menace now?

>>715376874
They banned it because of the name and art, last I checked.
>>715377183
I'm an ultra casual edh-with-friends on the weekends player. I dont know what the reserve list actually does, let alone what's on it.

>>715372162 (OP)
Covid was when it went off a cliff. They used it as an excuse to kill big events and lots of LGS’s slowly followed. Now the game is excluded on edh, and the constructed formats have been left to rot

>>715372162 (OP)
With the creation of the reserve list.

>>715379937
>big menace how
>Phyrexians got rekt
>Nicol Bolas got rekt
>Eldrazi got rekt

Is there a big menace left?

>>715380303
Evil jace from bizarro world.

>>715379937
>what's the big menace now?
Univers Beyond is the big manace. Don't you see how it's pushing out the original setting?
This will all culmiante in Magic's OC character killing all the invaders 10 years from now

>>715380645
gay

every big franchise is declining and its all for the same reason
the wider audience, the problem of magic (and dnd) is that in their case its working. you now can have heckin negan from the walking dead throw thors-hammer(marvel®) at post malone.
everything is turning into one blob. it wont be long and we will all drink from the same toilet everytime we go online. its grim.

>>715379937
>>715380303
Nicol Bolas is back again. Was only away in his "eternal imprisonment" for 6 years.
Other than that, the story of every set in the past two years has ended, in one way or another, with the writers saying "Beware of Jace". They're basically writing him as a modern version of Urza now. He was the reason why Nicol Bolas was freed and also the story is dropping hints about the Fomori, some sort of ancient civilization that left its mark on many different planes and was once at war with the Eldrazi.

Oh, and Tezzeret has some bullshit time/reality-altering stone now.

>>715381831
I didn't read the stories but my understanding based on what I read about it is that Jace kidnapped a creature so that it would be a guide to the realm where Bolas and Ugin were stuck and when he freed them, he somehow became a pure being of mana. Some sort of demigod.

They're doing some sort of planar chaos 2.0 bullshit with Jace. Lorwyn will play into it.

I feel like Eventide was the last good expansion. After they added mythics, everything went down in the shitter.

>>715381486
sad but true

>>715382701
Uuuuuuh SOVL?