I think that’s the final nail in the coffin for me. I don’t wanna play pop culture soup, I wanna play magic. Im out.
I have a Cube which will never contain UB cards, and I’m now in the process of converting all my existing decks for different formats into a “Modern Pre-Horizons” Battle Box since that was my favorite format ever.
Will probably spend some money in this, but after that I’ll never upgrade those decks again, and with more focus on UB there will be even less things I care about to put on the Cube.
This way I can keep good memories from those times, have ways to play the game with friends, and never again bother with WOTC’s bullshit.
We Weiss Schwarz now.
This aside, I stopped playing standard a decade ago. There were no bans for years, then kaladesh and innistrad 2 came along and fucked that all up. I was running pummeler but caught the collateral ban from temur energy. I tinkered to limp it along until I built something else, but then another two decks got smacked down a month or two later. I basically lost all confidence that the decks I was spending money on would be viable for any period of time. (in fairness, pummeler was 30 bucks when I built it, but it’s the principle of the thing). Moved to modern. Then MH2 Uhh… Yeah that was kinda bad. Always played edh, but that became the only format I played. And now…
I was an incredibly reliable consumer. I bought a box of almost every new set, and supplemental products that interested me or had cards I wanted. Then with it being eternal spoiler season, I couldn’t even keep up with which was which. I haven’t spent a dime on mtg in probably over 3 years. And I’m sad about it. I loved it. I loved cracking packs and setting interesting cards aside and doing a pass through my decks to see if anything could be swapped out. But now it feels like too much effort, which is crazy because mtg can be a high effort hobby. I have all my commons and uncommons sorted into 3 20k count boxes because it makes searching easy for building. Now I haven’t touched them in ages. Still some unsorted piles but I can’t even make myself give a fuck.
I’m still gonna throw money at Johannes Voss on patron and Kickstarter because DUH, but I’m afraid wotc has lost me.
