Sovarius wrote:
niheloim wrote:
I personally think the reserve list could go away without any real issues. player perception is the big problem- no one wants to think wizards is greedy or a bunch of liars, and the reserve list helps keep those accusations at bay.
Why do you think that? I don't think the amount of money they could sell sealed product for (especially at the small amounts they do 'master' sets at already) to have a net gain after litigation. Then, you have a lot of collateral trust issues that would hurt business i think.
thats what I said. The cards would not be reprinted in any numbers or formats to matter, rather the impact on good-will the reserve list has would be gone.
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niheloim wrote:
However, if the policy ever starts to impact EDH like it has vintage and legacy, I suspect we might all of us change our tunes.
Not me. Reserve List hasn't priced me out of legacy and i could have made more jumps into vintage-only staples by now if i chose.
Of course some people still play vintage and legacy. Just as some play EDH with the high dollar cards. But as it currently stands the reserve list has no impact on the most popular formats- EDH, Modern, and Standard. The one format it potentially could affect is EDH. If that happens in the same way as has happened with vintage and legacy, the good-will the reserve list garners would be diminished.
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Like i said here before, there's so little on the reserve list a commander player needs. People need to accept that cards are a luxury. The more people priced out of RL cards in commander means the more people you will play against who do not have them, anyway, meaning you don't need them.
On a related note, i kind of wish people would just stop trying to build 3 color decks and suck it up and play tier 2 decks in legacy that don't need duals. Or play a small number of shocks and INN duals and just suck up to Wasteland. I sort of think eventually people are so priced out of duals, that there enough people in a tournament (not GP/Open size, but you know, local) also playing with shocks you can get by a little easier. I mean i have more duals more than most of the people around me combined, but if they all wanted to play legacy and stop whining about the price points, they'd all be on the same disadvantage with shocks. Do you lose to people with duals? Yes. Idk, oh well. When i didn't have expensive or fancy cards i still played for fun. Though of course i get it, i would not pay $30 for a tournament with any real frequency if i expected to lose, which is also why people are adamant about having duals and not playing monocolor.
I know, i'm crazy, and people shouldn't have to subject themselves to a losing position, but still.
I've found that some 2-color decks are hurt more by not having duals. In a three color deck you can get away with the lesser dual lands because your decks is more color diverse. In a 2-color deck not having one color in sufficient amount can lock you out of a significant portion of the deck.
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niheloim wrote:
there are a lot of cards I pass up because I'm not willing to pay for them. theres a reason I dont run Time Stretch in more decks, and its not because I'm anti-extra-turn. its a dollar rare selling for 10.
Then it's not a dollar rare. I don't understand that part. But i mean i get it, if you mean "it's not $10 to me, i don't get $10 of use out of it". $10 is not at all "a lot" but it sure is if you have handfuls of $10 cards per deck and want several decks.
I thought it would be obvious that I was referring to a personal estimation of the worth of Time Stretch, especially given I'm willing to pay for more expensive cards. This being indicative of the nature of the issue. EDH is playable by so many because there are alternatives to expensive cards. This is not true of all formats.
Still, price is not the same as value.
There are some cards that are overpriced. There are some cards that are overvalued. Supply and demand matter, hence Ghostly Prison being more expensive than Propaganda...