Hates what Hasbro does to MTG, to D&D, to the toy division..It's a bad company in general with great IP

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anecdote from a friend who looooooves TCG, it’s pokémon, and it will always be pokémon cards. Sure MTG is big but won’t come close to pokémon

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MTG previously was a product with a huge moat - it was self-moating. It had been continually worldbuilding since it's inception. Now that it's just a vehicle to sell shit based on other IP, there's literally nothing special about it. Hasbro destroyed the moat on their own property. We've seen Palworld basically ripping off Pokemon and mostly getting away with it, Hasbro has made MTG vulnerable to some other company creating an alternative TCG that steals the rich rule system of MTG but fixes all the 'problems' it has. It could be a new TCG based on an established fantasy or sci-fi IP, or it could be an entirely newly written lore, in either case Hasbro will be absolutely fucked if/when this happens. Once MTG has a serious competitor, resale value will plummet and people will cease buying new sealed product to speculate on valuable pulls.

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They should diversify, like Hitachi. I'll that my MTG Wand and activate my land card, if you know what I mean.

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Im from the imner city and went to school in the suburbs for math and bball. Them guys in the burbs showed me mtg and sid meier civilization and i was hooked. I remember having a crazy black deck "i think" that was ridiculous. Hope those fellas are doing good. Great times and i learned a lot from being around them.

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MTG is printed in EU for that market, Japan for Asia market, and US for NA market. The tariffs are about the core toy business which has been pulling the company down since COVID disruptions and shipping costs skyrocketed, then tariffs impacts. That has hopefully been sorted through now.

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They reprinted and sold (reserve list) mox diamond in their from the vault relics series with a proper mtg card back and it’s tournament legal. Remind me how much they got sued for?

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Arent MTG printed in usa? That wouldnt be related to tariffs

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Well, their insane set printing cadence will bring a lot of revenue in the short/mid term (especially from those one-off buyers of non-canon sets like LoTR or Spiderman, who don't even play MtG). But I can tell it creates a lot of fatigue (if not disgust) in the active long-term players, especially now that these new sets all go through the Type 2 (Standard) format. Their lack of testing of legacy/vintage card interactions also fucks up eternal formats, where people don't exactly welcome this new barely tested garbage turning the game upside down. Shit like these Modern Masters or whatever it's called. Edit: Actually meant Modern Horizons. I don't care anymore, stopped playing MtG competitively around Lorwyn (the first one). We can make our own rules while playing in a pub.

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https://preview.redd.it/ywzkvbgymjig1.jpeg?width=607&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ed595f74fd2b2ee9e47f777e02e2fc88a702e9d1 Buy MTG to bet on people buying the wrong stock ticker

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