r/magicthecirclejerking

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I'm a new (9 months) player, so I don't understand maybe the nuances of the game maybe like you guys do. But I always felt like 100 cards was a lot. Whenever I make 60 card decks they feel more concise and thematic and higher probability of hitting combos I want...easier to carry, shuffle, build. Subtle. No singleton rule, etc...

I tend to want to play standard more than not but of course all my friends we all just play Commander. But I started building 60 card "commander" decks to play with my GF for the reasons I listed, and I just wondered if that was at all a thing already anyways.

They would print all the Arena Alchemy cards that conjure bullshit and a booster pack would have 1 conjure card and 7 different cards that can be conjured but they have a silver border, an account stamp and a big old "THIS ISNT REAL, THIS ISNT HURTING THE RESERVE LIST INTEGRITY IN THE SLIGHTEST" disclaimer on each of the tokens.

They would reprint Oracle of the Alpha and the rest of the pack would have the power 9 but exactly as described previously.

And they would all have real magic backs so when you shuffle them in, and no sleeves are used they get properly hidden AND worn down! Just like back in the UNC years of yester, that way unc oldheads would be fully immersed and these new gen zoomer kids who never got to experience the glory days of un can suffer with y'all.

And this set would feature a lot of un cards that do awful inconvenient things like swapping seats and opponents with someone, an enchantment that lets you blindly cast cards from an opponent's hand, doing combat phases back to back each turn and the worst, a magic player having to shower, or even better, if it's a Yugioh players first time playing magic they'll be doubly cooked. The car would get benefits if you've showered today.

I'm new to MTG and would like an easy deck that evryone can enjoy playing againt. I don't know any cards yet, but im looking forward to learning.

Used to date a guy 15 years ago and he was really into Magic as a hobby, he collected the cards and even had a deck and went to a couple tournaments without washing before hand so as a gift I went into a store and the guy behind the counter said to get him the card cause he said it was what all the pros were running at the time and it would be valuable. He seemed to love it and even got me a very expensive gift for my birthday but I still feel insecure because it’s just a dino. Is there anything special about that card?

Chris Cocks: Thanks, Fred. Look, I'll be honest with everyone: Magic: The Gathering is the only reason this company is still alive. We had a great quarter entirely because we keep printing cardboard with Ninja Turtles, Marvel, and Disney characters on it, and nerds keep buying it. We call it our "Playing to Win" strategy, which is just corporate speak for milking our IP until it bleeds.

Our new Magic set sold better than anything else because we mashed it up with other people's franchises. People are also buying our old cardboard at record rates. We even charged 23,000 people to stand in a convention center in Vegas just to buy more cardboard. It's a goldmine.

Outside of the card game, we're burning cash on two AAA video games that we swear are coming out next year. On the toy side, kids don't play with physical toys anymore, so we're desperately trying to sell plastic Grogu dolls and Marvel action figures to nostalgic adults. We are completely at the mercy of Disney's movie slate not sucking this year.

Oh, and we got massively hacked. Our IT and operations teams haven't slept in a month and are having a collective breakdown, but we're pretending it's business as usual. Here's Gina to explain how much money we lost on toys.

Gina Goetter: Thanks, Chris. Yeah, Magic is carrying us. We made $1 billion in revenue, and Wizards of the Coast made $298 million in profit. Meanwhile, our toy division lost $41 million. We're calling toy revenue "essentially flat" to keep the stock price from tanking. We also made $41 million from Monopoly Go, which is basically just a mobile slot machine.

We fired enough people to save $37 million, which we're calling "cost transformation efforts."

We're keeping our financial guidance the same for the year, even though shipping plastic from China is getting ridiculously expensive because of oil prices. We're just going to try and cut more costs to make up for it.

And about that hack Chris mentioned? It was a disaster. It cost us $20 million just to clean up the mess. We literally couldn't send out invoices or ship things properly, so $60 million in toy sales got pushed to the next quarter. We're burying that in the guidance. But hey, we're still paying our dividend and buying back stock, so please don't sell your shares. Back to the operator.