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@maro254 Since you asked for players& #39; opinions in your blog post about Double Masters, here& #39;s my perspective, in the following thread: accessible and affordable reprints are the single most important factor in the long-term health of a card game. 1/
Allowing casual players to easily and affordably access all the game pieces they may need to advance to high-level competitive play if they so desire is how you keep that competitive community thriving. 2/
This sort of market fragmentation between haves and have-nots within a game can only harm it long-term, as you discourage the majority of your playerbase from making that advance to the next level, since they won& #39;t be able to afford it. 3/
As someone who used to play Yu-Gi-Oh! in addition to Magic, I--despite my personal beef with Konami--greatly respect the approach that game has toward keeping itself accessible: every in-demand card is virtually guaranteed a reprint at a lower rarity after a year or so. 4/
By making it easier for anyone to play at whatever level they desire, regardless of their level of income, Yu-Gi-Oh! fosters a much more welcoming play environment to newcomers. Magic is a wonderful game, but I fear that this push of catering more and more toward the... 5/
...affluent segment of your playerbase at the expense of the rest will end up alienating all *but* that affluent segment, driving people away from the game and bringing fewer people in. 6/
The problem, to clarify, isn& #39;t the existence of these sorts of luxury reprints, but rather the fact that luxury reprints are seemingly the only reprints we& #39;re getting of late. 7/
A $300 Double Masters box with cool alternate art cards wouldn& #39;t be a problem if there was simultaneously, perhaps, a version of the same set priced at the normal level for a booster box, that maybe didn& #39;t have those alternate art cards. 8/
That way your affluent players can bling out their decks with these exclusive variations, but more typical versions of the cards themselves remain within reach for everyone else. 9/
Imagine a version of chess where only the richest players get an extra Queen on their board. It would be unthinkable! But that& #39;s essentially what Double Masters is doing by locking so many necessary reprints behind an obscene $300 wall. 10/
To sum up, accessibility and affordability are *the* most important factors in the long-term health of a trading card game, as I said at the top of this thread. *This* is why we& #39;re upset by Double Masters: it flies directly in the fact of that. 11/end
