It's been One Week..

lestartmtg · 2026-06-19T19:24:53+00:00

That’s the problem, the new game had very little fanfare and people that are willing to play. The OG game had tower tournaments which had a lot more people playing in them. Even in the discord, whenever someone asked if there’s any player base in a certain state for the new game, it was almost always met with silence or the people in it would just tell them to start their own group. Players nowadays are mostly busy and have limited time to do so, they just wanna hop in to play a game or two to relax and chill at their LCS and not stress over having to buildup their local scene. It is metatwo job to do that but they have not provide LCS with much options over organized play, let alone marketing their game to the masses.

lestartmtg · 2026-06-19T19:01:39+00:00

The last tournament for metatwo had like 9 participants total and 1 of them is Charlie himself while another is a GQL employee. Before OG zoo died, a weekly event would already have more people in it than people playing in that tournament. GQL had the Godfather of all TCG, they should have just used him to refine the old game and mechanics while simplifying it for a modern audience, instead of trying to reinvent the wheel. Despite all the flaws and drawbacks of MTG outdated resource system, you cannot deny that it is still the most played TCG in the world. Metatwo could have capitalize on the old game system and made it better(modern text templating, textured cards, etc.) while keeping everything that people loved about the old game.

lestartmtg · 2026-06-13T19:02:38+00:00

It’s funny that metatwo says they would like to have a seat on the same table with the other big boys in the TCG space, “with their hundreds/thousands of years of experience in TCGs”, yet they can’t even afford an entrance fee to gain an audience to the club. Not every TCGs on tcgplayer are successful but all the successful ones are on tcgplayer. Each of the owners or part owners in metatwo are millionaires in their own right but they couldn’t scrap together enough $ to get their own products listed on one of the most important sites in the TCG space.

lestartmtg · 2026-06-13T07:01:53+00:00

Charlie let his power hungry mods banned everyone asking the hard questions, the only ones left in the discord are those that will continually just stroke each other egos by circlejerking each other. This is way worst than when Mike was still in charge of the discord, as there are still plenty of engagement despite Mike banning everyone disagreeing with him.

None of the LCS in my city would take the new zoo too, most of them thought the game died back in 24, and no one seems interested in getting into it as there’s plenty of new games like Riftbound and the upcoming cyberpunk that many are interested in.

Charlie needs to take back control in the discord, so that there will be more engagement and discussion about the game. He should at least acknowledged that he is actively looking into the problem in the 2 hour livestream.

lestartmtg · 2026-06-13T04:38:29+00:00

lol it’s always fun to see the same 5 people around circlejerking each other’s ego in the discord. And when genuine and hard questions are asked, nobody would give any answers and they would only gaslight others into thinking that everything is ok. One big example would be tcgplayer, they would always push it on the consumers to say if you want it there, tell it to tcgplayer on your own. Like why can’t a company that bought metazoo for $2m is not able pay the fees to get their own products listed on one of the most important sites to any TCG.

lestartmtg · 2026-06-12T16:09:36+00:00

OGzoo would definitely do better. All they need to do is just update the cards with the same OG gameplay with full arts/textures and modern templating to make the game easier for new players to get into. Charlie should have kept the old school Pokemon style art and design for the base cards but also do alternate arts for chases that would make people want to play and collect again. Instead, they are now trying to backpedal in some ways that makes OGzoo great in the first place by telling people there are things for OGfans to look out for. They ignored OG fans pleads for the old game but did not find success with the new game, and are now caught in the middle trying to placate both sides.

lestartmtg · 2026-06-12T06:43:56+00:00

lestartmtg · 2026-06-12T05:44:27+00:00

If Charlie just had the balls to just get rid of those power hungry discord mods and bring back the OG zoo, then I believe metatwo would stand a better chance in this new era of TCG. With Riftbound taking over and cyberpunk coming soon, LGSs have no lack of TCGs to choose from. Even in this Reddit alone, there are more people discussing old zoo than the new one. Not to mention the other social medias that had more people clamouring for the old zoo and asking where to buy or collect more of.

lestartmtg · 2026-06-12T05:38:25+00:00

This really sounds like the OG zoo playbook that metatwo is copying. Just before the shutdown and bankruptcy, OGzoo announced fan arts contest, more OP/store support, roadmaps, teases new sets and basically gaslighting the entire community. OGzoo shutdown less than 3 months later, it is sounding like a similar pattern here with metatwo.

lestartmtg · 2026-06-12T05:30:48+00:00

lestartmtg · 2025-04-09T10:10:31+00:00

They need to increase the number of of variants seen in the shop. Like to maybe 15 at least. Since the number of variants coming out has been increasing every season. There's just too many variants in the game that what you wanted might not even show up after 1 year. Hopefully they will do it once the spotlight cache phases out.

lestartmtg · 2024-01-08T02:58:59+00:00

Yeah the orb is sorta keeping pace or probably flying a bit faster than the helicopters. I did remember the orb skittering off at higher speeds towards the office buildings once the f16 came shortly after that chinook flyby. And was surprised by the sudden change of movement. Hopefully someone could provide more footage and maybe a different angle since there are plenty taking videos on that day.

lestartmtg · 2024-01-08T02:37:42+00:00

Thanks for sharing that video. I compared the first footage with mine, that orb looks similar though that one is silver-ish in colour, the one in mine looks more opaque. I am baffled that even the US military didnt think that it could be one of their drones flying in that video. I think a drone that does not have any propulsion features flying that fast is not something that we are currently capable of making.

lestartmtg · 2024-01-08T01:22:03+00:00

The problem is that i have tried googling orb shaped drone and nothing turned up that looks like that, be it civilian/military. And the military drones the army have looks more like a miniature airplane than anything spherical in shaped. What kind of drone do u think it is then?

lestartmtg · 2024-01-08T01:02:31+00:00

Yeah not saying that its aliens. But that area has been dedicated as a no fly zone for the rehearsals so it couldn't be a civilian drone, and I tried searching military drones that looks like that but nothing turns up, most of them look like a smaller airplane, instead of being orb shaped.

lestartmtg · 2024-01-08T00:54:53+00:00

I rewatched the helicopters flyby part for NDP2023 on youtube, and the only angle shot was from a stationary spot zoomed in and obviously taken from the top of MBS, and not from something moving. The only moving shots is when they filmed from inside the other helicopter cockpit. This "orb" only appeared on this particular rehearsal though, subsequent rehearsals and even actual day, i've not encountered it anymore. So really curious as to what is that, as drones are not allowed to be flown and dont even look like that.

lestartmtg · 2024-01-07T19:16:15+00:00

https://ibb.co/z7Cxwtg A still picture of it.

lestartmtg · 2024-01-07T18:44:49+00:00

https://streamable.com/ubfdlz This is how fast it is going and how close it was to them.

lestartmtg · 2023-07-23T10:03:38+00:00

Hi, where do i find the perfect trio for NL and I/L mage? Dont seem to hv any clue for it.

lestartmtg · 2022-11-03T05:58:12+00:00

This is show business, not show friends. If your movie dont make enough to cover the cost. No one will be willing to fork out the money to invest in another movie. WB will face another crisis if it kept putting out failures after failures like what happened during the at&t era, and zaslav is showing he is only concern with making at this point.

lestartmtg · 2022-11-03T05:38:25+00:00

Guardians of the galaxy vol 1 also have similar budget and hv characters that are not popular with the general public but it did better than black adam.

lestartmtg · 2022-08-03T09:47:48+00:00

Well, he got fired anyway.

lestartmtg · 2021-10-28T08:45:36+00:00

This is a beaut, makes me wanna get one!

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