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<blockquote data-quote="Art Waring" data-source="post: 8840078" data-attributes="member: 7037141"><p>During covid paper mtg was in crisis mode for wotc because no one was able to play in person in stores. Locally all the LGS' except one closed for good after the first year of covid (and they were all heavily reliant on paper mtg to survive). So yes partly covid but it was also several company decisions after the fact.</p><p></p><p>Add to that the bottleneck in card production at the time, right before they changed to the current print schedule (massive prints and amazon dumps are standard practice now).</p><p></p><p>Wotc decided to drop paper tournament support, and earlier FNM, and other support for LGS' while simultaneously ramping up their mtg arena online. They pushed players online to keep profits coming in (because paper mtg's growth was stunted by C-19), and they never changed the model back to support standard in store formats.</p><p></p><p>Additionally, their straight to amazon dumps, undercutting LGS' have hit the stores <u>hard</u>. LGS' aren't seeing any support from mtg right now, and a lot of them have been burned on overpaying for sealed product when it gets dumped later on amazon at reduced price, sometimes at half the price they paid.</p><p></p><p>That was all on the LGS side.</p><p></p><p>On the player side, increased production of sets (now every six weeks i think?) effectively priced a lot of people out of standard, primarily because everyone has to replace their cards every few months rather than around once a year. Mythic chase cards are also designed to be "staple" cards, pushing prices ever higher, right up until they get banned a few months after release (more card bans in last two years than in the entire history of mtg).</p><p></p><p>Players trying to keep up are forced to spend more than they ever have on mtg, but have learned the hard way that sealed product never gives you a return on investment. You can crack a whole case of booster boxes and might not get the mythics you were looking for, or only get one or two of the card when you need a playset, for a whole case. This pushes more players into the secondary market instead of opening sealed product, where wotc makes nothing at all on secondary card sales.</p><p></p><p>Their strategy then went on to include more "staples" <em>and particularly</em> commander staples into new standard sets, forcing EDH/ commander players to keep buying new product as well. </p><p></p><p>---> <strong><em><u>Not to mention FIRE design</u></em></strong>, where new cards are now outpacing older ones, staying with older cards will eventually leave you out of the loop. Standard will keep pressing forward, because its primarily played online now, but as a paper format is is effectively dead until they choose to support it again.</p><p></p><p>EDH/ Commander are the only games I can find locally now at any LGS' (and that's ok), they aren't even doing booster drafts at any of the nearby stores.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Art Waring, post: 8840078, member: 7037141"] During covid paper mtg was in crisis mode for wotc because no one was able to play in person in stores. Locally all the LGS' except one closed for good after the first year of covid (and they were all heavily reliant on paper mtg to survive). So yes partly covid but it was also several company decisions after the fact. Add to that the bottleneck in card production at the time, right before they changed to the current print schedule (massive prints and amazon dumps are standard practice now). Wotc decided to drop paper tournament support, and earlier FNM, and other support for LGS' while simultaneously ramping up their mtg arena online. They pushed players online to keep profits coming in (because paper mtg's growth was stunted by C-19), and they never changed the model back to support standard in store formats. Additionally, their straight to amazon dumps, undercutting LGS' have hit the stores [U]hard[/U]. LGS' aren't seeing any support from mtg right now, and a lot of them have been burned on overpaying for sealed product when it gets dumped later on amazon at reduced price, sometimes at half the price they paid. That was all on the LGS side. On the player side, increased production of sets (now every six weeks i think?) effectively priced a lot of people out of standard, primarily because everyone has to replace their cards every few months rather than around once a year. Mythic chase cards are also designed to be "staple" cards, pushing prices ever higher, right up until they get banned a few months after release (more card bans in last two years than in the entire history of mtg). Players trying to keep up are forced to spend more than they ever have on mtg, but have learned the hard way that sealed product never gives you a return on investment. You can crack a whole case of booster boxes and might not get the mythics you were looking for, or only get one or two of the card when you need a playset, for a whole case. This pushes more players into the secondary market instead of opening sealed product, where wotc makes nothing at all on secondary card sales. Their strategy then went on to include more "staples" [I]and particularly[/I] commander staples into new standard sets, forcing EDH/ commander players to keep buying new product as well. ---> [B][I][U]Not to mention FIRE design[/U][/I][/B], where new cards are now outpacing older ones, staying with older cards will eventually leave you out of the loop. Standard will keep pressing forward, because its primarily played online now, but as a paper format is is effectively dead until they choose to support it again. EDH/ Commander are the only games I can find locally now at any LGS' (and that's ok), they aren't even doing booster drafts at any of the nearby stores. [/QUOTE]
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