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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 8853205" data-attributes="member: 58197">A true hard reset -- like, Wizards declares all past sets null and void and starts printing new cards that are incompatible with old ones -- would kill Magic. There is a whole ecosystem built up around the game which would collapse overnight, taking thousands of FLGSes with it. People would lose their livelihoods. I honestly think you would see literal riots outside WotC's offices.Furthermore, all the invested players would then ask themselves: Do I want to start over from scratch, or just walk away? An awful lot would pick door number 2. And those are the "whales" that have always driven Magic's profits. It would be like 4E, but a hundred times worse, and there's no OGL for Magic; there would be no Pathfinder to take in the players who walked away and keep them engaged with the game.Now, that's for a hard reset. A softer reset, as [USER=6807152]@Scribe[/USER] points out, happens with every Standard rotation... but that matters less and less as Standard dwindles. Wizards desperately needs to revive Standard or find another way to put card rotation back into the game.</blockquote>