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2017/2018 is when MtG started going off the rails for me. Just look at how many sets are released per year and it is easy to see the problem of over monetizati

2017/2018 is when MtG started going off the rails for me. Just look at how many sets are released per year and it is easy to see the problem of over monetization: https://onlyontuesdays27.com/2022/10/18/30-years-of-magic-the-gathering-products/ https://onlyontuesdays27.com/2022/10/18/30-years-of-magic-th... That doesn’t include other supplemental products such as secret lairs or commander decks. Not only are there many more sets per year, but the power creep is quite insane meaning that if you want to be competitive you need to constantly keep up with the new sets and buying new cards. I will say that the draft experience has gotten better on average. I don’t know if it is priced into Hasbro’s stock price, but they are still sitting on a golden egg of the reserved list. If they reprinted the reserve list I’m guessing they could easily rake in a few hundred million for basically doing nothing, and would in general improve customer relations.

bsder 4y ago
> 2017/2018 is when MtG started going off the rails for me. Maybe a little off, but probably not by much. MtG cards seemed to be calibrated such that if you preordered the "box set" (whatever it was) directly at retail prices (not speculative ones), you would wind up with a net profit if you went and sold the cards as individual pieces. This has been increasingly less true over time. And some of the current box sets seem to be a significant loss. > If they reprinted the reserve list Every collector would head for the exit, MtG card prices would absolutely collapse, and the system would pretty much curl up and die.
- graybies 4y ago
  They just did reprint reserved list cards in mtg 30th. Revised dual lands did take a significant hit to price. If anything I saw more people buying revised duals because of this.
  - __turbobrew__ 4y ago
    Yea I don’t buy the “reprinting the reserved list will crash everything to 0”. Many old cards hold their value even after they are reprinted. Anything originally printed in 1993/1994 holds tremendously more value than reprints: see anything from legends, arabian nights, alpha, beta, unlimited, antiquities. Yes maybe original revised dual lands go down to $100 if they are reprinted, but they are definitely not going to be $5.

bsder 4y ago

> 2017/2018 is when MtG started going off the rails for me. Maybe a little off, but probably not by much. MtG cards seemed to be calibrated such that if you preordered the "box set" (whatever it was) directly at retail prices (not speculative ones), you would wind up with a net profit if you went and sold the cards as individual pieces. This has been increasingly less true over time. And some of the current box sets seem to be a significant loss. > If they reprinted the reserve list Every collector would head for the exit, MtG card prices would absolutely collapse, and the system would pretty much curl up and die.

graybies 4y ago
They just did reprint reserved list cards in mtg 30th. Revised dual lands did take a significant hit to price. If anything I saw more people buying revised duals because of this.
- __turbobrew__ 4y ago
  Yea I don’t buy the “reprinting the reserved list will crash everything to 0”. Many old cards hold their value even after they are reprinted. Anything originally printed in 1993/1994 holds tremendously more value than reprints: see anything from legends, arabian nights, alpha, beta, unlimited, antiquities. Yes maybe original revised dual lands go down to $100 if they are reprinted, but they are definitely not going to be $5.