GoingMadlem

... up the ball on ancillary sets like Commander that were occasionally farmed out to other printers. Where it really hurts is board games. Why does that matter for Magic stores? Because they don't make that much on Magic anymore...

Wizards has steadily eroded the margins on Magic and D&D and the market has been flooded with companies dumping booster boxes for the same profit margin as selling a single booster pack so in-store box and pack sales have been on the decline for years...

Game stores have been steadily diversifying to keep the doors open... a 25% increase on toys and games shocks the market. Retailers will be left in the wild in terms of adjusting to pricing changes. Pre-tariff stock can be sold at old retails, post-tariff will require...

... some adjustment. Consumers will either respond by putting off buying until tariffs clear... or search out products that come from pre-tariff shipments, creating a huge advantage for the mega retailers that can carry deep inventory. Then there's the task of clearing out...

... tariffed goods if/when the tariffs are lifted. The second hammer is publishers that started print runs months ago under a different set of circumstances. Kickstarters that are already funded get to choose between wiping out nearly all of their profits or coming back and...

... asking backers to cough up an extra 25% to cover delivery of their projects or postpone delivery until the trade war ends. The supply chain takes a huge hit with distributors and retailers committing to quantities of games months in advance forced to swallow 25% increased...