GoingMadlem

Let's talk Japanese War of the Spark. Here's what buying foreign boxes has traditionally looked like for retailers: 1. Buy from Wizards direct 2. Buy from distribution You can cross #1 right off the list as Wizards cut the direct sales channels this last year.

Traditionally (and I'm being told it's different this time) distribution gets a limited quantity of foreign product in various languages. This is typically ordered based on historic order data so it can be hard to jump in and out from set to set. Example:

Distribution has 50 stores that order a box each of Japanese, Russian, Korean, Chinese every release so they stock around that number. I express interest to my preferred distributor that I'd like to start getting these boxes of certain languages and they pencil in an increase