Lord of the rings may seem innocent because it's a similar ish setting but next year they are putting spiderman and spongebob in. peter griffin probably before too long.
Yeah, this is the core of it. LOTR was basically fine on its own, but part of a trend that now brought us marvel set(s?) and now 1/2 of new sets will be outside IP.
Every expansion that is based on an IP like lord of the rings in another expansion that doesn't build on the lore of magic the gathering. Wizards of the coast are also starting to do more crossovers in the future, which again makes the problem worse.
Its a case of the company prioritizing short term profit from a IP linked set over the long term experience of the player base.
Lord of the Rings and the Forgotten Realms are fine, they take up a set that could be a new plane or an expansion of an existing one but at least it's thematic sword fantasy. But add to that, Fallout, Warhammer 40k, Doctor Who, Transformers and some I probably forgot, it starts to be a bit much (most of those are Commander only I think, but still...)
If that was all restricted to Secret Lairs, low volume, collector bonuses, it wouldn't be a big deal, but no, you need to have Optimus Prime fighting a Hive Tyrant
I recently started playing MTG A I was kinda confused about how people hated LOTR crossover. do you know why ?
Lord of the rings may seem innocent because it's a similar ish setting but next year they are putting spiderman and spongebob in. peter griffin probably before too long.
MTG has a ton of in game lore to build from. Just feels like a cash grab to start pulling in other IPs.
The LOTR set also had some really overpowered cards and mechanics. The One Ring is still the most common card in modern.
The chud types were also pretty salty about black Aragorn and there’s no shortage of those assholes in the MTG community.
Not a MTG player myself but they probably don't want the game to turn into the Fortnite of card games.
Yeah, this is the core of it. LOTR was basically fine on its own, but part of a trend that now brought us marvel set(s?) and now 1/2 of new sets will be outside IP.
It's hardly outside IP; didn't Spider-man beat up Yawgmoth alongside Urza?
Every expansion that is based on an IP like lord of the rings in another expansion that doesn't build on the lore of magic the gathering. Wizards of the coast are also starting to do more crossovers in the future, which again makes the problem worse. Its a case of the company prioritizing short term profit from a IP linked set over the long term experience of the player base.
Lord of the Rings and the Forgotten Realms are fine, they take up a set that could be a new plane or an expansion of an existing one but at least it's thematic sword fantasy. But add to that, Fallout, Warhammer 40k, Doctor Who, Transformers and some I probably forgot, it starts to be a bit much (most of those are Commander only I think, but still...)
If that was all restricted to Secret Lairs, low volume, collector bonuses, it wouldn't be a big deal, but no, you need to have Optimus Prime fighting a Hive Tyrant
And to be clear, it's not like people are psychotic about the crossovers. Pretty sure the reason is that Hasbro is doing an extreme number of them.
Yeah, true. Like half the expansions they have planned currently are crossovers iirc