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Magic The Gathering has been destroyed?? What lessons can we learn from this and take away in the real world that we are living in day in and day out?

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d01tg0d0wn

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When i ran a card comic shop as my first business Magic The Gathering was my bread and butter. We did massive numbers on this stuff as well as the merch. Sad to see it come to this. I cant imagine what this is gonna do for those shops struggling to get by. Is this the end of the iconic card game? Why do leftists ruin everything. No wonder we loath the left so much

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if it has to go I guess it can teach us valuable lessons on the way out. Zuby is a legend somedays
 
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From what I've read about this case, Magic hasn't been ruined at all. Management nearly doubled revenues from in 5 years from Magic with last year being another record year for them. It sounds to me like some activist shareholders who are purist Magic fans are mad that the company printed cards they said they'd never print again. I don't think the shareholders will win the case.
 
I think the argument they are making is that because they are reprinting certain cards, previously 'rare' cards that shops paid good money for to sell are now worth a lot less. These cards have their own markets so when they do this, they are messing with the buy/sell market. I am not into this, but I guess it's like debasing currency.
 
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Yeah, that is what they're mad about but that market is completely separate to what Hasbro management has an obligation toward.

Imagine Ford getting sued because they sold so many F-150s, Ford doubled their revenue but the used truck market had all their F-150s reduced in price so used car lots sued Ford for producing too many vehicles. It's silly.
 
As a shop owner i can tell u how this worked. If you purchased 10 cases you got one card that was rare guaranteed. I would order 100s of cases and literally another set of 100s of cases for customers. The first 100s were for the rare cards that i opened every pack to find myself. Sometimes we were guaranteed rare cards for certain amount of product orders. It worked like this for comics as well. For instance death of superman variant covers and in the black sealed bag with the logo on it you had to order a piss ton of that comic just for 1 variant. I have 3 and my partner has 2 i think. Those were the days opening packs and packs of cards just for the ultra rare cards or box after box of comics. Thousands of dollars on cards you couldnt sell once opened. Well some you could i guess but more got discarded then sold. Now imagine that the company just reprints them.
 
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If only it could still be a bread and butter. I believe local game shops these days have to diversify, so they have pokemon and even warhammer stuff. Heck Pokemon even outsells MTG from what I hear.
 
@Nink i got screwed by my business partner as i was only 16 at the time so i needed a lot of cash in the bank for checks i wrote. Couldnt get credit. Made mistake of having a single signature on checks and he cleaned me out. What a terrible lesson to learn. Long story short it was for the better or i might not have pursued school and met my wife and had my kids and all that came after. My life today is richer not because of money and things but because of my wife and kids as well as my dogs. Not the cat however that thing i could live without

It was fun while it lasted. I can only imagine what it is like to operate one in these dark woke times and with all the joggers about
 
Its a freaking piece of cardboard, jeez, ever seen the bugmen going to Costco for Pokemon?
 
Maybe but you had to know what to look for. Walmart yes. I was asked if i was in line for Pokemon box sets by a male slightly less then my age. I told him no just returning stuff. He then lectured like he was a drug addict shakin and tremblin for 20 min why i needed to get in the Pokemon racket. All i wanted was my 6.50 back it almost was to much but i endured and got the 6.50
 
Too bad I enjoyed MTG as a kid.

Can't say I'm a fan of their universe beyond approach as it destroys any of the original creativity from their own IP but they are raking in tons of money with it. They now have 'collector booster boxes' that cost like $600+ for 12 packs an you are just throwing your money away hoping to open a card that can sell for thousands. Check out their Lord of the Rings crossover. Unopened collector boxes are now selling for over $3500. They are going a Hobbit crossover come summer which I would actually consider buying a box and holding onto it for a few years only to sell it for a profit. Not to actually open it.

They did a Godzilla crossover in 2020 and released a card that invoked the 'death corona'. They of course removed it from print but I actually want one just because I kept meself pure blooded.

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When i ran a card comic shop as my first business Magic The Gathering was my bread and butter. We did massive numbers on this stuff as well as the merch. Sad to see it come to this. I cant imagine what this is gonna do for those shops struggling to get by. Is this the end of the iconic card game? Why do leftists ruin everything. No wonder we loath the left so much

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d01tg0d0wnEverything from Magic to Warhammer, pro wrestling even comic books themselves have gone to shit because of the fanbase. Can't have anything nice because of the loons that gravitate to these things now. Can't blame corporate for wanting to wring every last shekel out of Magic because the fans will eventually make it unviable anyways.
 
Wizards already made promises when it came to reprints. It was a promise made from backlash of old when MTG was a rather young and growing enterprise. they surely regret making the promise but to reneg on it opens up for controversy from days of old.
 
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