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Never forget, Maro stated 75% of their surveyed players of the game didn't know what a Planeswalker is. Easily 95% of that same data...

Like or dislike as you will - the empirical evidence is that it is a good way to sell large numbers of little pieces of paper for decades.

Its wildly wildly different from housing. Magic IS accessible. You used to be able to buy a standard deck for $40 bucks. Or premade...

I expect someone said so in the prior pages, but... Hopes for gains in the secondary market help drive the primary market. The...

In a reasonable system, the value you get from the cards you buy is in the enjoyment you get from playing with them. That's how toys...

This ignores the entire history of the very much working ecosystem of Magic, like 'this worked for decades' kind of thing with year...

I think there's a strong argument for this not being a reasonable system.

Exactly. But I'm only buying from the retailer if I think what I bought will have value. I.e. Box set costs $50, between playing...

I don't think they have made a choice not driven by greed in a decade, maybe longer. The worst part, is Maro knows better, lost his soul.

We had done glazers going into bat for WotC. Few doomers in other threads. Just a reminder Hasbros an American Corporation. Set...

That's fine if you're trying to sell a single sword, but if you're a sword-seller and you want to keep selling swords regularly into the...

Would you, as a consumer, buy a new set at 100$ if the last one was firesold off at 50$ due to overprinting? Would you, as a...

IME, this seems to be the current corporate culture in general. In the industry I'm in, I see it all the time. Manipulating budget...

I believe it's going to be Dark Sun AND something Ravenloft... Evidence for Ravenloft-related content is that it seems to be pushed in...

I'm happy to share. I think that WotC had to face a thing that had little to do with sales, when it came to those slipcases. I think we...