So I've only been playing MTG for about 4 years now, so I'm a relative newbie to everything, but to those of you who have been playing for longer, how often does it get this shitty, and how long does it last?? Formats are completely busted wide open, with Standard especially has been near unplayable for over half a year, Arena got predatory af, WOTC has been pricing up the game worse than ever, and the story got completely dog after Ixalan.

I don't enjoy playing Commander and draft has never really been my forte, so what should I really do? Invest an unhealthy amount of money into Modern? Just wait for things to turn around? I haven't spent a dime on the game since Throne of Eldraine and my wallet has been thanking me, but I'm still dissapointed as Magic had been a fantastic experience for me the past few years.

Is there any other paper card games I could be looking into rn? Honestly my experience with TCG's is limited to just Pokemon, Magic, and Hearthstone so I'm willing to try anything, it's just depressing to watch something seemingly fall apart so disastrously as this.

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  • YeForPrez2020 [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Yeah it honestly feels extremely bizarre. I remember being excited when I heard about play design being created, and to be honest, Dominaria and both of the Ravnica sets were really fun (outside of a few completely busted cards like Teferi and Arclight Pheonix). Shoot, even the Ixalan sets weren't too bad. But for some reason- likely a decision made from Hasbro- everything has been spiraling out of control since Eldrain, from broken cards by the handful instead of a rare exception, greedy cashgrabs and upcharges for necessary reprints, everything now being sold by Hasbro or Amazon instead of through LGS's. WotC's catering towards whales has gotten depressing at this point.

    • DefinitelyNotAPhone [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      As dumb as it sounds, Magic and the surrounding secondary market for it unironically helped radicalize me, because I realized just how fucking stupid it was that this wonderful game was at the mercy of a bunch of assholes that didn't care about it in the slightest trying to get rich. MtG with no profit motive would be an infinitely better game.