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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Meech17" data-source="post: 9243848" data-attributes="member: 7044459">I feel like overall there was a big fumble here.June 2022, the Magic the Gathering set Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate came out. It kind of flopped. It was largely a set that got glanced over because the second it launched they were showing off Double Masters, which was coming out just like a month or two later. "Why spend money on this D&D commander set when they are putting out a set with a lot of really expensive reprints and commander staples right around the corner?" Now MTG players are talking about how great of a set it was in hindsight and how it was slept on and everyone missed out on it. (I didn't.. I made an Izzet D20 Tribal deck with Wyll as the commander. It's my most played)Then come spring of last year, Honor Among Thieves comes out. Everyone who watched it generally has good things to say about it. My girlfriend who had never played D&D at the time really enjoyed it. I thought it was great (But I have horrible tastes in movies.. I kind of like the first D&D movie.) However it didn't perform. Not quite a flop, but sadly we're probably not getting a sequel. Then last fall we get Baldur's Gate III and it goes friggin gang busters.. I figure WOTC probably didn't expect anything of it, and were just happy to cash the licensing check. But all three of these things should have come out together.. I mean, they all had to have been in development at the same time right? You'd think there would have been some cross over.. Why no Edgin MTG card? Why didn't any of the Baldur's Gate characters have cameos in the movie? Could you imagine how many tickets they would have sold to Critical Role fans if Matt Mercer showed up for nine seconds in a muscle suit with a hamster? The MTG set should have come out this last summer, paired with a set of Baldur's Gate modules for Adventurer's League. Then BG3 in the fall.. Then the movie would have been primed to be a holiday block buster.I'm probably wrong, but I've been thinking about this a lot lately, as someone who has really enjoyed all three products.</blockquote>

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