MtG just made 3 UB sets per year Standard/Pioneer Legal and the Vorthos are mad

Yep next year there will be 3 MtG setting sets, Aetherdrift (Kaladesh, Amonkhet, and a jungle plane race), Tarkir, and Edge of Eternity (space opera at the edge of the Blind Eternities with Tezzeret), and 3 Universes Beyond Sets no D&D sets sadly, Final Fantasy, Spiderman, and unknown one although it's most likely Star Trek.

Standard/Pioneer was the last refugee of the Vorthos, so they are not happy about UB intruding upon it.

Thoughts?
 

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Parmandur

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Scribe

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3 MtG setting sets, Aetherdrift (Kaladesh, Amonkhet, and a jungle plane race), Tarkir, and Edge of Eternity (space opera at the edge of the Blind Eternities with Tezzeret)

Sure.

3 Universes Beyond Sets no D&D sets sadly, Final Fantasy, Spiderman, and unknown one although it's most likely Star Trek.

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That stuff all needs to stay in Commander, if it needs to be added at all. (Hint: It really doesnt need be there, but Money must be Printed.)
 


Staffan

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Yep next year there will be 3 MtG setting sets, Aetherdrift (Kaladesh, Amonkhet, and a jungle plane race), Tarkir, and Edge of Eternity (space opera at the edge of the Blind Eternities with Tezzeret), and 3 Universes Beyond Sets no D&D sets sadly, Final Fantasy, Spiderman, and unknown one although it's most likely Star Trek.
Having a Spider-Man set indicates that they're going to milk their Marvel license for every penny that it's worth. If it was going to be one and done, it would be a Marvel set (or set of Commander decks, like 40K or Doctor Who), but having Spider-Man indicates that there's at least an Avengers and an X-Men set coming up, with the potential for lots more if they want to dive deep.
 

Vael

Legend
Having a Spider-Man set indicates that they're going to milk their Marvel license for every penny that it's worth. If it was going to be one and done, it would be a Marvel set (or set of Commander decks, like 40K or Doctor Who), but having Spider-Man indicates that there's at least an Avengers and an X-Men set coming up, with the potential for lots more if they want to dive deep.

Previous info had indicated more than one set, and the fact that Spider-Man gets his own (well, more the Spider-verse, I guess) does imply probably 2 more. At least I'm hoping the Mutants get their own, because that's where my primary interest in Marvel comics is.

I have noticed that the straight to Modern sets have had a lot of broken powerful cards. The One Ring, a bunch of stuff from each Modern Horizons sets. So I do hope that letting UB into standard might fix that, but I dunno.

I have to admit, starting the Marvel crossover with Spider-man would work better on others, I'm into X-Men and all the merry mutants, so I'm kinda more interested in the non crossover sets coming out in 2025. Unless that last set is Star Wars or Star Trek. Then ... hoo boy.
 

Staffan

Legend
I have noticed that the straight to Modern sets have had a lot of broken powerful cards. The One Ring, a bunch of stuff from each Modern Horizons sets. So I do hope that letting UB into standard might fix that, but I dunno.
Alternately, they'll keep making higher-powered Universes Beyond cards which will then "infect" Standard.
I have to admit, starting the Marvel crossover with Spider-man would work better on others, I'm into X-Men and all the merry mutants, so I'm kinda more interested in the non crossover sets coming out in 2025. Unless that last set is Star Wars or Star Trek. Then ... hoo boy.
Spider-Man is a smaller sub-property (lore-wise) than the X-Men (which would likely include other mutants) and the Avengers (which sort of includes the whole non-cosmic MCU through osmosis), which might explain why they start with Spidey.
 

Helena Real

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It really is a disgrace, and it does feel like the last straw in what has been years and years of seemingly one bad decision after another at WotC. They're burning MtG's IMO cool AF lore for some supposed gain that will only be temporary at best and, at worst, it'll dilute the game's identity to the point of irrelevance.

MtG's core design is, at this point, outdated and deeply flawed, so at least from my perspective its lore was one of its only redeeming qualities—and they're throwing that away so, what's left?
 

Yep next year there will be 3 MtG setting sets, Aetherdrift (Kaladesh, Amonkhet, and a jungle plane race), Tarkir, and Edge of Eternity (space opera at the edge of the Blind Eternities with Tezzeret), and 3 Universes Beyond Sets no D&D sets sadly, Final Fantasy, Spiderman, and unknown one although it's most likely Star Trek.

Standard/Pioneer was the last refugee of the Vorthos, so they are not happy about UB intruding upon it.

Thoughts?
In other news, the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe (and you really don't want to know what those borogroves got up to!)
 

Previous info had indicated more than one set, and the fact that Spider-Man gets his own (well, more the Spider-verse, I guess) does imply probably 2 more. At least I'm hoping the Mutants get their own, because that's where my primary interest in Marvel comics is.

I have noticed that the straight to Modern sets have had a lot of broken powerful cards. The One Ring, a bunch of stuff from each Modern Horizons sets. So I do hope that letting UB into standard might fix that, but I dunno.

I have to admit, starting the Marvel crossover with Spider-man would work better on others, I'm into X-Men and all the merry mutants, so I'm kinda more interested in the non crossover sets coming out in 2025. Unless that last set is Star Wars or Star Trek. Then ... hoo boy.

There was a survey asking about Star Trek UB so I think that is what the third set is.
 

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