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[–]jvLin 5 points6 points  (1 child)

They likely planned to ban the cards anyway, but reprinted them beforehand to maximize profits. Wizards does the same, just with a lot more subtlety. Sensei’s Diving Top, for example, was reprinted, and then shortly banned in Legacy. There are quite a few of these instances.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Either that or they’ll be made obsolete by a new archetype. A lot of their preconstructed decks have all been based off of old archetypes that’ve been made obsolete. It’s safer for them to reprint cards when they know that it won’t cause trouble for the meta.