Winter is over - Current State of TCG Market 

Flesh and Blood is definitely one of my favs. There is a pretty underground game “Back Alley Mages” I think is really fun, and has potential for an up and coming comer. It has different mechanics that could really make every game different. Personal opinion of course

Sorcery feels like early MTG nostalgia bait, i might be wrong but the art feels like something that would grab a magic player attention. Not that it is a bad thing but it's not my jam.

Louie has the same rules as Rudy. “Thou shall do your best to not utter the word Yugioh” 😂.

Sorcery FTW!

I'm glad Magic is doing well for you. It's very much on the decline in my area. Tournaments don't fire anymore. FNM drafts sometimes fire though.

::record scratch:: "the average consumer doesn't want to have to buy things online?" really? I did not know that. If true, this changes my whole perspective on the LGS economy.

Nice to see this kind of content again instead of mtg

My money is on Pokemon and MTG only. Lorcana, Star Wars are all license products. They can lose that license and it's all over. It has happened before, and it will happen again. I have seen more Metazoo in the wild than Sorcery. In fact, I have never seen a single Sorcery player much less than a Sorcery card in an LGS. Your store may be the only one. One piece and flesh and blood will be ok. They are in LGS, and in valuable LGS display cases. There are players.

7:20 - I think I spit out my coffee....young players care absolutely 0 about the vintage market and history. And that's not me being condescending, it's just not what they care about at all. No 15 year old is going to spend $500 for a dual land...

There are too many games and not enough money to go around and finance all of them. The market can't support them all

I have no doubt most of these new TCGs will do great over the next 2-3 years, but how many will last beyond that? I can see Lorcana and One Piece going the distance, but not much else. FaB has already moved beyond the early TCG danger zone, and with their recent launch into Japan, I can see the game getting even bigger. However, it still seems to struggle in the US, despite the huge tournament events. Its biggest issue right now is probably limited appeal to collectors and casual players. I'm curious if the rumored PvE format will help the game grow here in the US? Interesting times for TCGs, in any case!

As far as mtg vintage cards goes I max out around $300 a card, anything beyond that I remind myself that it's a piece of cardboard and going higher than that seems silly. I own some OG duals, wheel of fortune, and some other lower end pieces like some Forks.

> The idea that the average player of MTG in my store has probably never played a 1:1 Magic format 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Good on you for adapting and not complaining. thats how you run a successful business.

Lorcana is going to be negative value for card shops. This is not a good thing.

I can certainly vouch for MTG doing great right now, my LGS has wait lines for commander night as every seat fills up by literally 4pm and we play until 1am, also firing pioneer standard and pauper events regularly, but to agree with you - everyone shops the binders and display cases, nobody is cracking packs, they all want singles...

Love Star Wars Unlimited

What should I do if I have a great idea for a tcg based on WoW?

Great analysis! One of these days I'll make the trip across state lines to patronize your store. Keep up the good work!

My fallout box shipped today that was 229 shipped. Let’s gooo!!!!! It’s guaranteed a serialized card too!

I recently came back to MTG solely because commander, I used to play 2 and 4 player casual 60 card decks back in the late 90s when I was 10 til 12. I’m absolutely loving the fun and casual commander play that I’m doing weekly at my lgs. What an awesome time to come back to the game!

Keep Crushing Louie

You mentioned a Lorcana reprint, is this just a guess of does distro have additional TFC Locana?

The problem with Sorcery is too difficult to get I understand it being a collectible but at some point you have to have readily available product at a reasonable price to build a player base

Good luck with the WOTC Pokemon collection!

Really enjoyed the video and your thoughts. FaB has an uphill battle for sure without an established fan base like lorcana and One Piece. The latter just needs to deal with supply issues. And the altered tcg cards are just so ugly. Why did they have to put a QR code on a card?

I’m glad you mentioned Star Wars. Something about it really connects with me. I’m not even a Star Wars person but it has me watching the movies now and getting into the story.

Good vid! Sorcery forever!

Guess the card win the card!

I bought the starter decks of sorcery over winter and so far I've only played it twice. The game is dope, I'm a grid believer, but i can't get anyone to play consistently.

I wish you were in NOVA and not WV so I could play Sorcery at GG. I got a strong 30 mile limit, but it would be fun sometime to meet and play.,

I'm so in on Star Wars Unlimited!! It's so fun to play!!

Altered is gonna be dope!

Mate, I have a LOT of Single Cards from my Commander collection, and I've thought about selling them. What is the market like at the moment? For example, how would you price a collection?

Well let's be truthful wizards of the cost has shot its self in the foot with fallout ny local store can even get any boxes they had to cancle most of there orders

I have been playing magic for 20+ years. I would agree that buying singles and commander decks is the only way to spend money on magic right now. I play commander only now and only buy singles. I have started to teach my kids magic and they are way more excited to play Universes Beyond stuff then regular magic stuff. They were very excited about Marvel.

Thunder Junction is such an awkward follow-up. Not to be negative, but to be objective. We get List cards, a Bonus Sheet, and an Extra Bonus Sheet...and that will cause ridiculous amounts of variance in Sealed/Draft as well as between boxes for those who live cracking packs. I'd still rather open Wilds of Eldraine, Brother's War, March of the Machine, etc...where there's a bonus sheet and good list value. As for Vintage Magic...probably not. If it's playable in Commander probably. It's tax season and we are seeing movement on duals, like every year around this time. But they're less likely to shell out several thousand dollars on Moxen when that literally funds a Cedh project. Aka they're more likely to care about foil Gaea's Cradle than a Time Vault.

I have to disagree with you on your take that there are too many card games. TCGs need to have something for everyone and need to have their own little niches with communities and such. I think your doing it right though promoting and pushing the games that you the shop owner believe in and your local community want to play. While I say more is good, I also agree that LGS can't do everything. I noticed that Yugioh and the Bushiroad games weren't on your list that your store carries. Any reason why?

Edit: I apologise in advance for the long rant. I'm aware it sounds angry and judgemental but I don't really want to yuck anyone's yum. Until recently I had a kinda passive outlook on commander as a concept overall. I never got the appeal and even though I tried I never got into it so I just didn't care about it. However, as time goes on I feel a growing resentment to this format as it seems to have taken over the public discourse regarding Magic to the point where it seems like it's all Magic is. My problem with that is the fact that it's not like many people think. This is not due to the casual nature of the format making it more accessible and many people liking it as a result. Yeah, that might have been the case for some time and for many people but currently I'm witnessing the trend of a huge influx of new players who are mostly very young who are introduced to the game by other relatively new players who are not much older and that leads to many people only being taught the game via commander. Basically never knowing that there are other (and subjectively better) ways of playing that can be just as casual and wacky and multiplayer as commander. So seeing this influx of players whose idea of Magic hardly expands outside of the boundaries of commander (if at all) many content creators only (or mostly) make commander focused content which is then consumed by these same players who only know this one way of playing the game. This way the idea that there is basically nothing else to Magic other than commander is perpetuated and becomes a feedback loop which only grows with time and by making commander look bigger than it is, it actually makes it bigger with time. However, as I said this doesn't feel natural. It feels parasitic on the game. The fact that commander is the only format with cards continuously printed specifically for it, the fact that the only precon decks sold at this point are commander decks, the fact that there are commander decks for Modern Horizons III (?!), and the fact that in many cases one can find it difficult to find someone to play a casual game of Magic with unless it's commander all feel so wrong to me. I understand what people see in it but I don't understand how it came to be that people think that the things they like about commander are only available in commander. Kitchen table Magic in my opinion is infinitely better because it doesn't have the restrictions commander imposes on players. You want to play a 100 card singleton deck? No problem. You're not required and allowed to play a 100 card singleton deck only though. You can play a 60 card deck with 4 copies of everything, you can play an 87 card deck with 2 of's, 3 of's and 4 of's. It's entirely up to you. You want to play with 3 other people? No worries-you can play with 5 other people if you want and it can be free for all or teams ot one against the rest or whatever you want. Ban list? Nope, there isn't one. Play 4 sol rings if you want, let's see how you'd fair against another busted and absolutely bonkers brew that one of your friends has concocted. Commander is restrictive and boring and I'm really getting angry at the fact that it's obscuring the real freedom and fun that Magic can provide for players. It's not even that commander itself is bad-it's the constant noise being made about it forcing wizards and basically all of youtube to cater to a player base who largely is under the impression that there is commander and there is competitive Magic with nothing inbetween. Also I'm aware I absolutely overreact but I needed to vent my frustrations in a single comment that I can refer to in the future. After all everyone can play whatever they like however they like and I'm actually more sad than angry about everything I said.

Glad to see you embrace the Sorcery fanboy sticker. The game is the best thing to happen to TCGs since Magic in the 90's People will discover it and start playing in due time.

Have you heard of wonders of the first?

I wish you and FAB never got a divorce 😢

More NomNom please

Star Wars Unlimited is the underrated gem!!

"Spring State in my store" would have been a fitting title. 👍

Tbf, neither of the other 2 FFG Star Wars card games were TCGs. I'm all in with SWU

I'm not spending a dime until Pokémon Pee & Poop comes out.

Don't buy reserved list...I want them all lol 😜

I'm betting that no one will care (or at least be alive to care) about vintage Magic in 40 years. Wotc doesn't want older guys in their hobby anymore and I stopped supporting them 3 or so years ago because of it. Magic isn't for us and I'm happy to spend that excess cash on games who want everyone's time and money. I would say Sorcery is easy to teach and to learn but harder to understand. You really have to get the concept of the game into someone's head before teaching them and I've found that if they're not open to it then learning will be rough. It's not a competitive game (you can play it competitively) and there's a lot of imagination involved. I'm extremely competitive, probably not the best loser and yet I don't care one bit when I lose a Sorcery game. When I teach someone, the first thing I try to explain is the golden rule.

Bandai and not printing enough..

This whole thing came across as totally snotty.