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Chris Cocks confirms Spider-Man set will be first of multiple major sets WotC collaborates with Marvel on in coming years.

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[–] SlippiHUD@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

🎡🎢Push it. Push it real good.🎢🎡

Man, am I glad I've bailed on Hasbro owned hobbies.

[–] itsJoelle@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Strangely enough, I’ve come to enjoy 3d printing warhammer over magic and d&d.

[–] lovestha@mtgjudge.social 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

@itsJoelle @SlippiHUD 3D printers are very bad at making mtg cards ;p

[–] SlippiHUD@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

I bet they're great at making YuGiOh Tablets

[–] mike@mtgzone.com 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I think this is just unfortunately where the game is going. They'll put more and more money and set design effort into these and less into the standard sets.

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Well we are getting 5 standard sets this year…

[–] mike@mtgzone.com 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I don't think it's the volume of sets that will suffer, but the quality of the set design in those sets. I feel like if resources are allocated more towards the UB cards we'll see all the cool and interesting mechanics and cards printed in those sets and then Standard becomes the afterthought.

[–] Artemis201@mstdn.social 5 points 3 weeks ago

@mike @nokturne213 I fully agree from this, especially with corporate's push to minimize costs (aka employees).

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I agree. I wish the UB sets would end. LoTR made sense. Even 40k had an mtg feel and it brought two great groups together. But, and I say this as someone who has been watching Doctor Who since Tom Baker, they have gone too far.

As great of a set as Bloomburrow is, Duskmourn was that bad. It is selling like shit. They should have dropped DSK instead of making it earlier.

[–] mike@mtgzone.com 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yea I agree w/ all that. I was actually very excited and bought into LTR but these future UB sets are just not close enough to the in-game lore imo.

DSK seems like it has some fervent draft fans but I also think it's not a very interesting or fun set. The set's setting and lore also seem at odds with Magic historically.

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 weeks ago

They tried the horror thing with Midnight Hunt/Crimson Vow, and it failed. So they tried it with Markov Manor, and it failed. So they tried it with Duskmourn and it failed.

Each set has had some good cards, but as a whole the sets suck. Both full cards lists and story.

[–] lovestha@mtgjudge.social 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

@nokturne213 @mike We are? Oh, I hadn't realised that :(

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 weeks ago

Duskmourn was bumped up to make space for Foundations.

[–] dabu@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks, I hate it

[–] lovestha@mtgjudge.social 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

@andrew Anyone know where Hasbro has said this? As it obviously goes against WotC saying they know how to predict how much to print....

[–] lovestha@mtgjudge.social 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

@andrew Elsewhere a friend dup up: it was in the earnings call.

So yeah, this directly contradicts WotC's position that they know how much to print. WotC just flat lying to us.

[–] Artemis201@mstdn.social 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

@lovestha @andrew in Hasbro/WOTC's eyes, "the right amount" and "sell out immediately" are likely the same thing