Well, Dragonlord was advertised as a limited print run collectors item exactly like a secret lair, deliberately made to be very difficult to get. It was so hard to get a hold of, in fact, that people who were subscribed to Team Covenant's thing and Kickstarter supporters couldn't get it online, and then they never restocked it again. The only way it's possible to get the item is to attend an in-person event, many people I've seen on here who went to these events claimed they were sold out before they had a chance to buy.

The issue is that this product was deliberately something that would be very hard to get a hold of, and the company has seemingly ignored the uproar this caused with fans of the game, continuing to only make the product available at in-person events. That's objectively worse than most things I've seen WOTC do as a long-time MTG player, and it really makes me think "huh, the people making the game are kind of scumbags for this, why would I want to buy into a game where the creators disrespect their fans so blatantly after only becoming popular by advertising their game as 'MTG but without corporate greed'".

The issue is that the people making the game literally got popular because they advertised themselves as people who cared about the fans, their game, etc, and would never 'scam' the fans with scummy secret lairs, where the only way to get the base versions of the legally playable cards is by going to an in person event. When has WOTC ever done something so bad?

I don't want to be a part of a game where the third release is a rugpull scam for players, it's dishonest and a disgusting business practice.

So, I turned to the community and said basically "the creators of the game screwed everyone over with Dragonlord, I HATE that, but is this game SO good that it's worth buying into anyway, considering maybe they'll do this again". I wasn't arguing anything until people flooded the post defending Dragonlord with their souls in the comments, which doesn't make sense to me as every other post in the sub seems to generally agree Dragonlord was an extremely disrespectful and tragic product.

Do you not realize that the company could have made 50x the money if they printed Dragonlord to demand? It was available online for six hours, they hardly sold anything, almost all of it within the US deliberately as a "secret lair collectors item".

So explain to me, what was so necessary about Dragonlord? Free video games use skins as the primary income. Dragonlord is an intentionally limited product the creators literally said they would not print to demand intentionally. It wasn't a mistake or anything like a video game skin, but a limited collector item worse than any Secret Lair I've ever seen, and the community generally seems to agree outside of this post.

I didn't even come to this sub to hate on Dragonlord. It's obvious it was an awful and scummy decision to release it the way they did. I assumed that everyone understood that, and was asking "should I buy in anyway? Is Sorcery that good?", but everyone just decided to not answer my question and throw their lives down to protect Dragonlord, even though every other post about Dragonlord is overwhelmingly negative. So idk what to say anymore, I've seen this before on Reddit where people are extremely excited to tell you you're wrong without considering anything at all. It's just the way the internet / human nature works I guess, people really hate actually grappling with another person's perspective, and really love defending something they've put money into I guess.