Would be cool if the outside would stop interfacing with me.
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IMO I think we ultimately see 3 UB sets per year, 3 "in universe" i.e. Magic sets per year, and 2 Horizons/Remastered type sets per year. You can't really pump a set shorter than 6 weeks, and it seems like 8 or 9 sets is the upper bound on what they can release each year.
Going down to 3 Standard-legal sets will be weird, unless they plan to push UB into Standard.
@meant2live218 @mike maybe 3 standard sets plus the permanent standard set that they announced would work. If that's just 200 or so evergreen standard cards it would provide that extra bump
Wasn't there a time when that was how it was done? I remember reading Maro say that 2 large sets per year were too few but 4 were too many. When they eliminated small sets/blocks? Shortly before Guilds of Ravnica I think.
I know for a while we had Core Set + 2-set blocks, but I wasn't playing then and don't know if they filled the gap with something else.
@morphballganon @meant2live218 Standard has had way too many cards compared to standard of old. Remember when Standard was Block + Core + 1 Large set after rotation?
That is 3 large sets + 2 small sets.