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Got this because I don't like carrying cash (weird because I'm pretty into privacy, but I have a minimal wallet and am scared to hold lines up at stores lol)
It actually has to be broken to open which I love. The "MTG Fund" part was a joke at first but it's been a while since I was excited for a set and actually wanted to spend money on it. Bloomburrow seems promising, loved Redwall as a kid.
Might just be product fatigue. I've been very into pauper commander lately which holds me over
I feel this completely, been waiting for what feels like years to actually want to spend money on this game other than random old frame singles I like. Similarly excited for Bloomburrow I think mostly because it feels like Wizards getting back to an actual fantasy motif again with some novel lore.
To expand a bit on your point on product fatigue, I’ve noticed “moving on” from new releases much much quicker these days. MKM hasn’t even been out that long and it’s already spoilers and news on OTJ and the other releases coming soon. I’ve mentally checked out of MKM already whereas before we’d have 3 months to just think about it and get to know it.
Separately, even the products designed for “me” like Ravnica Remastered with all the old frame cards are just priced too high, with no way to get some of that back by buylisting anymore it seems. $150 is so outside my impulse buy range that I invariably just pick up singles again. It could be different if I had a local playgroup again big enough to draft with but without that I just don’t feel any desire to buy sealed products or crack packs like I used to.
I super relate to the fast turnover. I want to enjoy a set and have time with it and actually learn the cards and get a feel for them. Chase some. Have my opinions changed on some. Then later, slowly get excited for the next set.
Feeling like I can't keep up has me just ignoring whole products and sets
I used to draft for a few weeks after each set release but nothing since March of the Machine has held my interest. I know a lot of people hated it but I still miss All Will be One draft. Short matches, little text, and all about when and what you swung. Did the prerelease for Murder and it felt like each card had a book on it and 6 different set mechanics to deal with.
Complexity creep is a problem in my opinion... yeah, some cards are fun and have to have quite a few words, but being able to play without reading and rereading is also nice. And keeping track of board state gets tiring
This is me trying to get into cEDH, and more and more cards being kinda pushed into it. There are so many interactions, so many triggers, my mind just shuts off, and I feel extremely bad losing one game after another because I was just overloaded with information. To point of seriously considering quitting MTG altogether and picking up something simpler, like plastic models.
@UnPassive @MacedWindow to many old school players there are two big factors in what has changed:
* too many card variants, so you can't recognise cards by the art any more.
* too many cards being released each year. Heavily invested players used to be able to keep up with knowing the text of every card in standard. But there are more cards instandard now (all big sets) and standard legal cards are only a portion of new cards.
People didn't need to read every cardthat was played years ago, because they already knew most of them.