War of the Spark was the culmination of a decade of storytelling. If the MTG crew thinks they can try to force something like that every couple of years and not expect player burnout, they're very mistaken. Nobody is going to take the stakes seriously if there's a multiverse-ending threat around every year or so. That's not the building of suspense, that's the definition of lazy writing. They need to really, and I mean really, slow the pace down.
@AB-gn1ey Sure, it's profitable, but many consumers (myself and most everyone I know) are extremely tired of Marvel movies. After Infinity War, it seems that most people just don't really care about the next major threat or storyline and just want a new IP. I'm not going to take the stakes seriously when time travel AND the multiverse are canon in the MCU- you can't just kill off half the cast, bring them back and expect me to believe that there are real stakes here.
@@AB-gn1ey They still have this card to play (pun intended) once or twice more. I hope they do it now, and maybe do it once more, and then by then people start getting tired.
@@AB-gn1ey It might, but it's not just about how it sells- it's about how much confidence the base has in the product. Artificially high stakes, multiple fake-out deaths, overexposure and powercreep are all things that can cause burnout on their own, and MTG has been rocking all four for some time now. It can sell millions of units and cause the stock to spike through the roof, but as long as this company keeps doing it, consumer confidence and enjoyment will continue to go down. MTG is a game, after all, and if the players don't like the game they will begin to stop playing.
I got a bad feeling about this, something here dosnt feel right. If wotc dosent get its greed in check we may be heading in to boycot territory. I cant help but wonder how that may effect the planed sets. This line up seems interesting but also like wizards plans to stick to its guns in terms of how they have been handleing pricing and pr.
I played magic back when Theros was standard legal all the way until Kaladesh. Magic doesn’t even feel like a thing you can get into anymore, there’s way too many products now, there’s absolutely zero hope of being able to actually collect everything unless you’re just unemployed and sitting on a few million dollars. I remember when expeditions came out in BFZ block , and everyone lost their collective minds because it was so unique, having super rare chase cards in a set. Now every single set has 4 different versions or more of a single card, and it’s just too much to keep up with
I've been playing since nemesis. I remember when planeswalker would be the end, I remember when mythics would be the end, I remember when commander precons would be the end, i remember when compainions would be the end. on and on and on. The cool thing about magic is that it always changes. The Universes Beyond crap is fun and has definitely brought in new players.
Gotta say, I'm really excited for Bloomburrow; wonder who the planeswalker will be there? The great space race set sounds really interesting too. Makes me think of Redline a bit. I also generally really like vehicles, so a set that's bound to have a lot of those could be neat. The key art for the Tarkir set is pretty dope as well. While I'm not a big Assassin's Creed fan, I have played a lot of them throughout the years and really hope they are able to do some interesting stuff with sort of stealth mechanics. Maybe something neat in line with Ninjitsu except more assassin-y? Also hope we see some Apples of Eden stuff in the AC set. And Final Fantasy is something I've played since I was a young kiddo, so I'm excited to see the two collide in a big way. I have stayed away from the other Universes Beyond just because of limited time and money, but I might have to give it a go. Overall, I am pretty excited about most of the sets. And I am glad they are continuing to experiment with varied settings,.
They should spread this out over the next several years. Too many sets are not a good thing. They should keep things in reserve instead of constantly pumping things out. Even the most die hard players can't keep up
@welverin I think he's talking about the 8 to 10 sets in 2024 the sets look great just feel like we aren't gonna have enough time to actually enjoy the sets
Beyond boosters would be great if they included all cards from across the beyond sets, that way you have a chance to build or collect what you missed out on
That could cause massive prices for cards that are new exclusively in that set. But I'm also in agreement that reprints will probably be necessary for UB sets.
I think two to three sets per year would be better. Maybe even returning to the old block schedule, where we would get around six sets per year but only 2 planes.
My thoughts: I missed out on Ixalan as I started magic with the Forgotten realms set and from the cards I’ve seen from the set and the artwork for the upcoming set, I am hyped. Ravnica remastered seems really fun as that was before my time and my commander decks have a lot of cards from these sets. I love fallout and I think it is safe to say I am buying all of these commander decks. Outlaws of thunder junction seems really cool as I often love the villains in mtg and the art showed Rakdos, who is one of my favorite commanders. Bloomburrow gives me major secret of nymph vibes so I am looking forward to that. Innistrad remastered seems like a no-brainer and looks fun. And I am excited for Tarkir as a whole set around dragons will be hype.
I somehow missed hearing about the Final Fantasy set before now. Putting it out there now: I don’t care how expensive they are, what colors they get, or what they do, I’m going to have Squall and Yuna Commander decks.
@@terry4574 Luckily she’ll go back to the command zone and then we can cast her again. And now that I think of it she’s defiantly going to have some kind of death trigger. “When Aerith dies search your library for a card named ‘White Materia’” or something similar. And then Sephiroth will probably have an effect that ether destroys a creature or requires a sac. And then people are going to make whole decks where the whole goal will be to kill Aerith with Sephiroth. I wonder if Cloud will have an effect that triggers on your own creatures’ deaths. FFVII Aristocrats could be a thing.
The judge- human avatar Avatars you control have fear Tap sac or exile target creature you control. If sacced the judge gains indestructible. If exiled return creature to the field except its an avatar in addition to its other types
@@computerwaste5950 Magistrate Tolden, a seven foot albino who speaks every language in the multiverse, and is working on committing genocide one plane at a time.
Out of everything mentioned, these are the things that spiked my interest: Bloomburrow Duskmourn Innistrad Remastered Lorwyn Arcavios I just hope they won’t jack up the prices for all these sets. Or do anything else stupid. Chances are they most likely will do something really stupid. I swear, if they even pull another Magic 30th or another OGL fiasco, I will have nothing to do with this game going forward.
Outlaws of Thunder Junction and Bloomburrow look amazing. Also, I am reminded that years ago they previewed an alternate frame that looked like a poker card. I would wager that’ll be showing up in Thunder Junction.
The Assassins Creed's Beyond Booster makes sense now after they announced the Play Booster. They make the beyond booster non draftable and will probably slot it closer to what the set booster was previous pretty much giving us the dradt and set packs back for universe beyond products
I’m really excited for bloom burrow and ixalan. Everything else seems really dope but I’m hoping these sets will be worth the money I’m willing to spend on them because they excite me the most
As someone who doesn't play magic ~ can you use any of these sets/cards to play in the main game? You can just play a Jurassic park card vs people playing with LOTR cards ect?
My question is how Hasbro manage to convince Games Workshop (a direct rival due to D&D), Tolkien, BBC (or whoever owns the Doctor Who Franchise), Microsoft/Bethesda, Ubisoft, Square Enix to use their most reknown IPs for MTG. These Universes Beyond Sets are Impressive just by existing alone
@@ameliaward7429 That could work with some of them but Square is well known to be pretty stingy when it comes to Final Fantasy (and we all know how their western ventures went so it was no secret the wouldn't want to associate with western companies yet knowing Japanese are who they are), Microsoft is more valued than Hasbro (even more considering they just got Activision Blizzard and thus they have Competition in the form of Hearthstone and could easily revive the defunct Warcraft Card Game project Blizzard abandoned if they wish to enter the TCG Space) and Games Workshop is a direct rival to Hasbro and specially Wizards
@@alpha34098 I don't disagree but the point is that any form of corporate cross-promotion is to reach new paying customers. Even if it is some Godzilla nerd buying an Ikoria pack for nostalgia. All looking to get in on the loot box/lottery pack gravy train. Of course Ubisoft will whore out it's product to get on some of that sweet, sweet etched, serialized lottery action. They would be fools not to. As far as Square goes, ya, it seems out of character but then again, I'm sure MTG is still considered a premium brand in the boardrooms. I could see them making that leap.
@@MommieDovahyes, not sure why he answered a question nobody asked... But since it'll be like lotr, we might get 4 commanders and get boosters. Who knows what commander precons they'll have, I'm guessing the flagship and the latest series, two for 7, one for 16, one for 15.
Several of them look interesting! Love the horror sets, really enjoyed original Tarkir and the second 2 visits to Ravnica! The biggest disappointment is the small none draftable AC set😢
Any thoughts on what the four decks will be? Factions? Like Brotherhood of steel, super mutants, raiders, survivors? Or could it be by city? Capitol Wasteland, Commonwealth, new Vegas, new California Republic?
I imagine factions.. BOS, rakdos raiders, and others. It would be hard to pick any particular factions without focusing on one game, and that game would have to be 4. So maybe the other two are institute and something?
If it's fallout 4 centric, maybe the factions will be Brotherhood of Steel, Underground Railroad, institute, wasteland baddies? Mutants, raiders, ghouls?
Fallout 3 came out when I was in 7th grade and it was my first introduction to the franchise, Iv been a huge fan of it since and Iv put thousands of hours into each fallout game. I am beyond hyped for these decks, I can imagine a lot of cool commander creatures many unique items coming from the franchise that would be great additions as cards. I’d love the iconic Fat Man mini nuke launcher as an artifact of some kind, Laser Rifles or T51 Power Armor. With the doors open to bethesda, I could imagine the cars may even offer a sneak peek into the next game in the franchise. I’d like to see a cross over with elder scrolls in the future, I’m sure many fans would like to see that with its insane amount of potential, but fallout is near and dear to my heart, and Iv really enjoyed getting into MTG so to see something I deeply love collide with commander like 40k and LOTR has, it’s been overwhelmingly beautiful, I’m super hyped man
They should make a Berserk commander set from the Berserk manga. I think it would fit well in the MTG play style. What do you guys think. Also, if you think its a good idea, how do we get wizards the coast on border to make it happen
What I like about this formula of sets is that they try to tell the story of big events through a block like the recent phyrexian saga only to come back to old sets in the future where they can incorporate the aftermath of the new phyrexian invasion into the planes. Ixilan before phyrexia and now releasing Ixilan after phyrexia.
It's a real shame about assassin's creed boosters. It feels like drafting would represent "assassin's creed" really well, with passing information back and forth being very important in AC lore wise with the contracts being hidden in innocuous places. Conspiracy was literally the closest concept to assassin's creed that magic has ever done, and that was a draft centric set. Huge missed opportunity.
Even though not a set but having cards from jurassic park franchise, it's like a dream come true. Was talking to my friend during the early stages of lord of the rings cards were annoucned that i want jp theme dinosaurs for my dinosaur deck. All we need is game of thrones set and I'll be golden.
So no Theros/Zendikar remasters for Arena?!?!?! Pioneer is incomplete without a tribal Eldrazi deck :( Also no Dungeons & Dragons new set :( Ravenloft , Eberron , Dragonlance , Spelljammer , Planescape are all planes which they fit 100% in MtG aesthetics... bummer
In a way though Aurelia is really good against token decks. It says "a player." Which means any player. So when someone has ten tokens, and attacks with say, seven of them, they and everyone around them except you immediately takes 3 damage and you gain three life. That, and you're going to be with bigger creatures than just simple tokens. AND you draw a card. Not awful.
Bloomburrow seems like the kind of plane that chatterfang is from… if I can manage to get more support for my squirrel tribal deck, I’ll gladly take it.
There seems to be an increasing number of crossovers, plane revisits, and now even plane reboots. This doesn’t inspire confidence in me. Usually these trends indicate a decline of creativity and quality and a rise in low effort milking, like the plague Hollywood is infected with currently.
The Beyond booster: it's beyond what you ever thought you would spend on a booster 😂 And yeah. Prolly a small set like Aftermath. That's how they'll sell the tiny epilogue boosters. Attach a cool IP to it
Fallout has me excited, but the AC set is alright with me if it’s a smaller set as long as I can get my sneaky bois as commanders. 😂 That being said, the “Tennis” set absolutely is gonna have New Capenna in it. It already had plenty of vehicles in it and we’ve only visited it once.
DC Comics need an Universe Beyond premier set. Maybe the succes of LoTR will convince them to agree on a 2026 or 2027 project? Who knows. The timeframe would certainly work.
Saying Modern Masters can be format warping is a huge understatement. IMO the last one went way to far in term of free casting, and watching games isn't even interresting at this point. The whole point of a wide format is variety which is the exact opposite of modern.
without any further information, I'm almost certainly going to buy a bundle from thunder junction, bloomburrow, the death race set, and the start wars set. also maybe the next lowryn set.
Super excited for Assasins Creed. It doesn’t like like there doing precons for that right? Should still be fun to pick a commander from there and make a deck with it and some of the other assassins creed cards.
man i hope mh3 has ally fetches. then i can buy the crap outta that set like i did mh2. xD ravnica remaster will hopefully be a great time to pick up shocks too.
Can we not be surprised by things anymore? I don't want to know everything that's going to come out in the foreseeable future and what it's going to be. I want to enjoy what we have now and then be surprised by what comes next when the time actually comes for that.
