The problem I see with this many products coming out, is a spoiler-fatigue that I already had during 2019. But now, they really upped their game.
In summer, we will have 6 weeks of spoilers: Core 21, Jumpstart and then Double Masters. How am I supposed to keep up? I already feel left behind, because in comparion to six years ago, there are more than double the number of products coming out this year.
2014 we had 11 products in total. Less than 1 each month. This year, with all the Secret Lairs, even more Commander products etc., we have 23 products
as of now already announced and some of them even released. And certainly there will be even more Secret Lairs to be announced in the next months and maybe more new products for Fall/Winter this year? Even if I'm being generous and count all the Secret Lair products as one and integrate the Commander Precons into the sets they are released with, we're still at 13 products. Again: As of now!
This Masters set is just the tip of the iceberg of the flood of spoilers and I don't like that we're sliding from one spoiler season into the next. It was already hard to keep up with the double spoilers for Ikoria/C20. And I fear that it won't get any better.
And sorry, but the sentence from the announcement sounds like they are mocking us:
This is, admittedly, a strange time to be announcing a new product, but even as we all deal with the realities of how COVID-19 is shaping the world, it's good to have something to look forward to. And we think Double Masters is going to be something to look forward to.
Like... we already have two products that we could look forward to in summer? Yet, they announce another one? After they said they would stop making Masters set for a while, 1 1/2 years ago? Nice move, WotC...
Yes, it's cool to get a reprint set, and I really like seeing
Mana Crypt dropping in price already. But how many more products can they throw at us in a single year until the playerbase is too overwhelmed with new products?