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Next Steps in Revitalizing Standard: Play (wpn.wizards.com)

submitted 1 year ago by andrew@mtgzone.com to c/mtg@mtgzone.com

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Wizards announced new efforts to promote Standard play that start next year. Some highlights:

Special promos for new weekly Standard events at LGSs
$75k Standard Open at MagicCon Chicago, which is "the first large, open field Standard tournament in quite some time"
Pro Tour Outlaws of Thunder Junction (second PT in 2024) will be Standard

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[–] calvinball@mtgzone.com 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Until they do something to make standard more affordable I don't think they'll succeed in this revitalisation. Either you print new standard challenger decks every year that actually contain all the game pieces needed for a Tier standard deck, or people will continue to play non rotating formats where the decks are as expensive as standard but will last them a lot more years than standard decks

[+] lovestha@mtgjudge.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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[–] calvinball@mtgzone.com 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You're right about the premium treatments and the pricing. I don't think the fact that 4 out of 10 tier decks are under 200 bucks will bring more people to standard though: if you're on a budget you look at the standard metagame and see that you can sleeve up mono red aggro for under 100$. But at the same time you see that you'll never be able to afford other tier decks like golgari or esper midrange, which are about 500$. If you don't have access to the option of creating the tier deck you want, only the tier deck you can afford, it creates a feeling of being locked out of (part of) the format, and creates resentment toward those that càn afford a golgari midrange deck.

[–] tasthesose@dice.camp 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@calvinball @lovestha this is how it felt getting into magic in the late 90s working for two weeks pay to buy my first box - Ice Age - it was complete shit and I didn’t buy another box of magic for 20 years because of it. Talk about resentful - playing against people with amazing decks and I’m sitting on a box of hot dog water ice cubes. :)

[–] calvinball@mtgzone.com 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm glad you learned early not to buy boxes then :D

[–] tasthesose@dice.camp 2 points 1 year ago

@calvinball it surely saved me oodles over time - I wasn’t tempted again successfully till the Lord of the Rings cards - the artists really did amazing jobs and I wanted to at least get this set while it’s around. :)

[–] heavy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

I don't have the most experienced perspective, and for several reasons I prefer standard to the wider formats, but I like the effort they're putting forward. At the end of the day, I'd like it to be less cost intensive to get into competitive play, but I think that's a non trivial problem.