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Originally Posted by Darkwolf71  It's too obvious that this was part of the marketing scheme from the get go. |
I'm not entirely convinced that this is the case. If
WotC had planned up front to have the power cards be a major part of the marketing strategy, I think the PH sets would be releasing later this year, instead of January 2009.
Judging from the simultaneous release of the PH and Martial Power decks in January, compared to the April release of the PH2 decks the month after the release of the PH2, my suspicion is that these cards are a relatively late addition to the planned product line. Supporting this is the fact that the cards do not yet appear in the product section of the
WotC web site, nor on Amazon. (I'm also guessing that there is no picture of the cards in the Spring 2009 catalog, and I'd be interested if thalmin could confirm or deny that guess.)
So my theory is that while the idea of power cards was probably floating around all along, they weren't part of the initial release schedule and have now been added (or brought forward) based on demand.
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