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Power creep. I stopped playing in 2004 or so, and the number of expansions since then has been a tad more than 20. And the number of traits and abilities has sk
by belmead 1y ago
Power creep. I stopped playing in 2004 or so, and the number of expansions since then has been a tad more than 20. And the number of traits and abilities has skyrocketed.
- mcphage 1y ago> Power creep. You say that, but back in the day I played red, and the quintessential red card—Lightning Bolt—is now considered too powerful to keep in print.
- dbbr 1y agoAckchyually, they just reprinted Lightning Bolt for one of the most recent sets: Final Fantasy (just came out in ~June 2025). https://gatherer.wizards.com/FCA/en-us/40/lightning-bolt https://gatherer.wizards.com/FCA/en-us/40/lightning-bolt
- Crushable-E 1y agoThis is only in the through the ages set and is not standard legal. These through the ages cards are only reprints for formats like commander where it was already legal.
- mcphage 1y agoThey do reprint it periodically—seems like it gets a bunch of specialty versions. But it hasn't been printed in a standard set in almost 15 years, as far as I know.
- wredcoll 1y agoI mean, there's a dozen or so cards from the first set that have never been reprinted.
- mcphage 1y agoLightning Bolt got reprinted for a number of years, before they rebalanced the game. It’s not one of the Power Nine :-)