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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Remathilis" data-source="post: 7321265" data-attributes="member: 7635">[video=youtube_share;KGPuBOvTIUQ]https://youtu.be/KGPuBOvTIUQ[/video]VIDEO CAVEATS* Rudy is a store-owner who runs a video channel devoted to financial speculation on Magic: the Gathering. His primary audience is M:TG players and speculators.* His presentation style is pretty spastic; it can be a turnoff for some. The short version of his video: someone he knows (and he admits its flimsy friend-of-a-friend sourcing) believes that since M:TG is more-or-less on a downward slope and plateauing (aka, sales are never getting better than they are now); Hasbro might sell WotC off at its "peak" for maximum return on investment. Rudy doesn't mention D&D, but its safe to assume that any sale of WotC could include D&D, and D&D alone (even during the streaming 5e Renaissance) wouldn't be enough to shore up flat-MTG sales.Rudy and his source believes such a sale would take place in 3-5 years; which (at maximum) would be year 9 of 5e's edition cycle. Now, all of this should be taken with a HUGE grain of salt, (and probably a squeeze of lemon) but its an interesting thought experiment; if Hasbro decided to sell WotC (Magic and D&D together) what would happen to them? Go independent? Snatched up by another media company (my money's on Disney <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile    :-)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" /> ) or just left to drift? Could WotC sell Magic/WotC and retain D&D? What happens to the digital initiatives and movies?</blockquote>

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