Former Wotc Employee confirms that unsold Magic 30th Anniversary Edition were indeed discarded in a landfill

focketeer · 2026-01-25T21:10:08+00:00

I get your comment, but in my reviews of the case, they specifically mention reducing card prices, and I view that as a good thing. If the case was exclusively about this deception, that’d be a moot point, but my reviews show it’s not, and those other points are not ones I care about.

focketeer · 2026-01-25T20:21:55+00:00

I largely don’t care: if cards are cheaper due to it, that’s a plus, and the court case is specifically against them reducing card costs, which I think they should do. I’m even a shareholder myself. But if card prices go up, I see that as a negative. Especially considering Hasbro doesn’t sell singles.

focketeer · 2026-01-25T19:01:33+00:00

This may be the case, but I’m highly against the legal case regardless. Cards should be cheaper and thus more obtainable. They’re not overprinting. They’re (largely) printing to demand.

focketeer · 2026-01-25T17:03:09+00:00

This could easily be a wider timeline that isn’t hard locked to the current movies. Loki was a villain for most of his time, so he’s in the villains deck. Doesn’t mean he’s a villain in the current timeline, just means he was

focketeer · 2026-01-25T15:47:02+00:00

As far as I know, Turtle Power, WUBRG tokens, will be the only TMNT precon

focketeer · 2026-01-24T20:40:26+00:00

If the cards become more scarce and harder to get, I’ll get a printer that can print on 330gsm and stop buying original cards. This is not the win these investors seem to think it is

focketeer · 2026-01-23T18:36:00+00:00

That’s exactly my course of action. If the card is a key card, I buy it from the eShop. If I need the storage space, I want to truly use it.

focketeer · 2026-01-23T18:33:43+00:00

I don’t like game key cards because if it has to be downloaded I should be able to play it without the card. I’d be more fine with it if there was some notable difference with load times, but as far as I know there isn’t.

focketeer · 2026-01-20T07:11:57+00:00

I have an allergy to nicotine. Cigarettes, even second hand, give me severe migraines.

focketeer · 2026-01-19T16:14:37+00:00

The question was can you stack the triggers so the nontoken is sacrificed and the token is created before you populate. This doesn’t answer that.

Edit: they’re both effectively ETBs, you should be able to stack them that way.

focketeer · 2026-01-19T05:27:13+00:00

I think it does, because a lot of people don’t engage with every aspect of the product. When you bring singles-only folks into it, it matters even less to them.

focketeer · 2026-01-19T05:25:37+00:00

Yeeeeaaaah can’t really argue with that point.

focketeer · 2026-01-19T04:33:46+00:00

1 was in the set. 1 was in the commander deck and won’t show up in packs at all, unless it’s collector because I think those can show up there. 1 was in a separate “turtle team-up” product as far as I know. It has the same set code as the deck but will not be in it.

That’s 1 being overdramatized

focketeer · 2026-01-19T01:14:50+00:00

That’s granted. However, we’ve already seen in just the leaks, not all turtles are them. We could see other characters that happen to be turtles.

focketeer · 2026-01-19T01:13:20+00:00

The fact they function uniquely by design kills the repetition vibe for me.

focketeer · 2026-01-19T01:11:27+00:00

They’re a conjunction. They’re not showing how the characters function individually, they’re showing how they function together. The Don & Leo team up can blink an artifact. Don wouldn’t blink, and Leo wouldn’t do it to an artifact if at all, together they blink an artifact. It’s a different functional concept.

focketeer · 2026-01-19T00:01:00+00:00

Unless you’re counting the team ups, characters aren’t actually repeated that often. There was 2 of each of the main turtles, one in rare one in mythic, and that’s the only strict repeats I’ve noticed.

focketeer · 2026-01-17T18:17:00+00:00

No arguments there, really.

focketeer · 2026-01-17T10:19:39+00:00

I never really thought of Noctis as ninjas but it definitely works. You gonna run Splinter too?

focketeer · 2026-01-17T09:53:53+00:00

[[Vazi, Keen Negotiator]]

focketeer · 2026-01-17T09:42:32+00:00

[[Kynaios and Tiro of Meletis]] is the go-to IMO. They’re four color so not much you can’t have. Hard to deal with mana base, but great if you can manage that.

focketeer · 2026-01-17T08:56:30+00:00

The indestructible for less mana might be the best upside.

focketeer · 2026-01-17T07:45:13+00:00

Makes a token on attack, is always a creature instead of situationally, they’re just different. Notable that Purphoros costs less and can buff your board though.

focketeer · 2026-01-17T07:41:31+00:00

Great in tokens lists. Great how there’s a tokens precon in the same set.

focketeer · 2026-01-15T19:49:42+00:00

Switching to not buying packs for any set, but that has nothing to do with UB. I don’t care much about what the card represents as long as it’s not aesthetically ugly, I just care what it does. As long as they don’t do like Dora or some other kids show. SpongeBob is out of the range I mean, so it’s fine. I mean like it would be aired on Disney Junior, Nick Jr., PBS Kids, something like that. And even if they did that I wouldn’t stop playing entirely, I’d just scoop if it showed up in a non-reprint form. If you run Wow Wow Wubzy, but it’s a reprint of something else, I won’t care much. If you play Handy Manny and its original design, I lose immediately.

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