MaRo wrote:You know how I have the occasional article chockful of new information about Magic that everyone's going to be talking about? Well, today's article is one of those.
Well, this is a self-fulfilling prophecy, because the thing that gets me most talking about this article is how it was supposed to be really big and I almost don't see a reason to care about it at all. It's just advertisement.
The key is that the existing
game play isn't affected. Changing blocks had a significant impact on Standard size and Limited, but this is just about product that packages essentially the same cards without actual changes to the size of the
card pool.
The one information of interest is about Brawl decks - which makes a statement about this format receiving continued support. Some like it. Some don't, but it's a new product and that product will likely by the nature of Brawl also be interesting for Commander players due to the (relatively...) exclusive cards - what do they call them again? Ah, yes, "ancillary".
Commander players will kinda get quintuple releases for cards that don't go through Standard if Brawl cards are designed with singleton/commander game play in mind (assuming every seasonal/auarterly set receives Brawl decks and we continue with annual Commander products and they are about equal in quality of cards they add for commander players - the lack of quantity might mean it's more doubling/tripling over the course of a year, but it's both an increase in quantity as well as frequency, which both actually is big news IMO).
But all that Brawl deck stuff? That was in a throwaway line and leaves the rest of the article as something that doesn't touch me. And maybe that's actually fine. In a way it's very good that I don't care about/mind/take not of the changes that are made to the product if the changes are made to cater to a different kind of customer. I don't get anything out of the booster changes, but that's fine if the part of the game I care about doesn't need to be changed in a detrimental way for that.
Businesses gotta experiment to improve, but the part that was not broken didn't get broken in the process. That's fine.
In all seriousness, at $20-25 a pop that is a lot of money! He didn't specify how many are in a box, but if we assume a 24-pack box @ $20 is $480!! The only positive is that you are getting at least 2 Rare/mythics and a 1-in-10 chance of getting a borderless planeswalker in the showcase slot [only 30 showcase cards as pointed out above, and there are 3 planeswalkers], so the value is likely there if you hit a good showcase or planeswalker.
