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I think this is bad actually.

Honey I hate to say this but you are the parasite, and so blinded by nostalgia you don't even realise

“Players don’t care unless it’s rare, so no more foil commons and uncommons in play boosters.” “The main driver for tanking foil prices were the Collector Boosters flooding the market with foils.” “Don’t worry. We’re also removing three non-rare foils from collector boosters.”

Gosh im so excited to open a god pack and it be 10 50c bulk rares :)

A lot of words to say profit > people

So now everything is gonna be out of stock instead of just collectors... Cool. Cool.

What is replacing the foil slot if the pack doesn't contain a foil rare/mythic? Is it like the old days where it was a common?

Fewer cards in CB packs and no guaranteed foil I regular Boosters means MSRP will go down, right?

taking two commons from a booster pack i will never buy because it is whale bait is infinitely more irrelevant to me than maybe getting a god pack once every 4 years

It’s always morally correct to steal

Define enshitification.

Yeah I saw that after I posted my original post

Imagine if the replacement pack is another God Pack. Statistically unlikely, but not impossible…

at the discretion of the TO, and only if the player knows about this rule and knows to call the judge when they open the pack

Apparently the official guidance is "stores should give the player who got it an extra pack and not let them use the god pack" so theyve thought of this

Really long time player who's been a vocal hater about a lot of things y'all have done in recent years - a foil in every pack and making foil c/u cards way more accessible was one of the few things I thought you got right, and I think undoing that is a mistake.

So we're doing golden tickets now? Fucking hell "God" packs

What do you mean my sealed pool can't be 18% rare+, judge??

F tier. Who's making decisions at WotC?

This isn’t a good thing :(

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Any scalper stupid enough to buy packs in bulk opening them for a 1 in a 1000 chance of getting 15 rates and mythics is a net good for the community, as it will drag the prices of singles super low

"we expect the first person to open one to briefly lose their mind" the first to open one in their prerelease kit will have to sit through everyone scooping rather than face the guy with 3x the rares as everyone else, but at least the investor bros are happy or whatever

Also if you want to foil out your deck, that inevitably includes commons and uncommons so it’s not great for that either.

So... foil commons and uncommons are now going to be less common than foil rares? That seems... backwards. Just go back to boosters being 11 commons, 3 uncommons, and 1 rare/mythic, with a foil replacing a card of its own rarity. It worked fine for years, you never needed to tinker with it.

This is embarrassing. You should be embarrassed. Your production pipeline being so badly messed up you can't have foil commons and uncommons anymore should be a banshee wail letting you know you are dying.

This is genuinely awful all around.

do you hear that? that’s the sound of the one in four cases (that’s twenty-four (24) collector BOXES, which would run you about $12k if we were to use Reality Shift as a reminder) chance at getting a god pack complain less and c o n s u m e.

Yep, the enshittification will continue until profits improve

I do but I play Magic which seems to put me in the minority of pack openers these days

Been buying 4 to 6 collector booster box every release from OG Eldraine to Secrets of Strixhaven. Was having fun collecting master sets while opening boosters. Was mad at the number of UB sets taking over and the global impact of UB on MSRP of boxes. MSRP is a mess and now this? I’m out.

Why can people who want Japanese cards not just buy Japanese boosters?

This is a horrible change. Cutting cards from an already expensive product so you can add another chase card to in turn increase the price of an already expensive product is just robbing your consumers.

What if this game was *less* about gambling instead of more?

Fair enough, there have to be some people who do. However, I am convinced that the vast majority of people were excited about pulling them because due to their rarity, they fetched absurd amounts of money from the people who are interested in them.

Oh god no. More juice for the scalpers is that really what we are doing now ?

I am so done with opening magic boosters lol

So, with decades of experience printing cards, you "had to" cut some cards because it's just so difficult? Gotta respect treating the people paying for your success with utter contempt, but it does strike me as a bad business decision...

So... foil C and U are now a Collector exclusive? Interesting choice, but fine. Not many of them are used in constructed formats, I suppose. But cutting 3 cards out of the Collector Boosters without replacements or price change is wild! I'd rather take those cut foil C and U than nothing.

Hasbro is more concerned with profit than playability. Has been for years. The weird part is that Collector Boosters are already nearly impossible to find in stock, so these aren't really boosting sales. Maybe it'll lead to more Play Booster sales...

They saw the pokemon scalper fistfights and said “we want some of that”

Because Hasbro is a toy company catering to toy collectors, rather than a Games company catering to game players.

If we wanted to exist in a culture of melodramatic white boys screaming cause they opened a "God pack", we would play Pokemon. This just smacks of how out of touch WOTC/Hasbro is with their actual audience.

I don't like that it's in play boosters though. Draft should stay affordable.

Really? In a format that only allows commons, they find playables? No wai! Thanks for the "um, axchully"

This is bad. No thanks!

I also thank @rebell.bsky.social for this. She was EXTREMELY vocal about players opening play boosters not being able to experience getting a chance at premium stuff.

Your welcome everyone. bsky.app/profile/ment...

It is 1 in a 1000 packs. 1 pack every 33 boxes. But I guess those dumbasses at wizards of the coast should have known better than to cause global warming creating delays in Panama. It's crazy how dumb everyone goes about this company

Like, I'm not saying it is going to cost LGSes hand over fist dollar-wise. The problem is truly that they are struggling to have enough packs for everyone as is and this does nothing to solve that problem and actively makes it worse.

Or any sealed event where a lack of replacement packs means that you have to choose between someone only getting 5 packs to build with or having a significantly better chance of sweeping. Just wait until this happens at a competitive event and watch how pissed it makes people.

It's not a policy. It's at the discretion of the TO, and even then only happens if the player both knows about this rule and chooses to call the judge when they open the pack wpn.wizards.com/en/news/2027...

Those odds for "god packs" is so abysmally low that I find myself just going "... meh". I've already been moving to buy less packs and more singles just due to the general state of the cost of living going up and none of these changes do anything to change my mind. Simply meh.

You want to hand this game over to JUST collectors and frankly I don't want to let you. I don't want this game to go to a few chuds who would sell their mom for a nickel if it meant a dollar more in profit. This is our game too, not just yours. I wish that mattered more these days but I guess not

Can't wait for 2030. Marvel's Leftover Superheroes! 2 cards per pack! Chase 1 of 1 Blackagar Boltagon! Every rare breaks a format completely! Reserve your $5000 scene box with 9 textless art cards before the scalpers buy them all!

And you're getting rid of foil commons and uncommons? Streamline production, go to one type of booster JFC

No. More of this crap should go to collector boosters and stay out of draft boosters. It's a lightning rod for scalpers so regular products remain accessible. If all the dumb special treatments are in regular boosters, we'll have pokemon's problem.

You made awful choices that negatively impact your players! Congratulations! Everyone hates this!

So, basically you want us to pay the same amount for less cards and less foils? Was this supposed to be a positive change?

While you're at it, print enough of them that they don't spike to 4x MSRP before the set even releases.

Less cards for the same price? Cool..... Cool. Cool..cool.

This is… profoundly disappointing. I don’t have any questions, I’m just really upset to see to company behind a hobby I have loved since childhood succumb to profit and greed over community, consistency and integrity… tell me you hate your players without telling me you hate your players…

Removing the guaranteed foil fucking sucks

Please bring back the foil commons and uncommons. I really look forward to get foils of the certain commons and uncommons in each set. Having a foil in each pack is cool. It is disappointing that the only way to get them will be in collector packs. It really feel like a let down.

Also your justification for cutting 3 cards is Youtube videos from content creators??? Smh. You know that's not a majority of your audience right?

Massively disappointed. I won't be buying collector boosters anymore, and I'm a massive fan of them. Wait in line at Microcenter so they are somewhat affordable. I can't justify spending more money on less cards. The math isn't mathing.

hasbro caters to the investors first, the content creators second, whales third, and consumers last.

Disappointed that rares are more likely to be foil but very happy that commons/uncommons are no longer foil. I live in an area where foils are unplayable due to humidity. I think play boosters should focus on actual gameplay first. Cards shouldn't be foil exclusive.

Fomo the Sloppening Now scalpers will buy all the play boosters by the thousands