GoingMadlem

Pumping Modern was also a massive mistake

I think Wizards is critically aware of their mistake with Modern, but they are a slave to their past earnings

Doesn't make any sense to me. Not every decision makes me happy but they can sell $10 packs thanks to modern. Standard, EDH, and Modern all make them tons of money. Wizards is doing fine.

They make money every year. They will lose autonomy if they make less money than previous years. Each subsequent "Masters" set sells less than previous releases, Standard set releases are selling less and less, & ancillary sets are a mixed bag.

I haven't seen any data about "Less and Less" magic has gone through many growth, level, and contraction phases. MM17 was a great success., Unstable and CMD17 were good successes. People have been saying "The Sky is Falling" since chronicles. This is not then.

As a store operator and through discussions with other operators / distribution, I can say with high confidence that Magic is softening. Additionally Wizards is releasing more ancillary products to make up earnings. And they also removed "magic growth" brags from stock reports

I have a false hope that Dominaria can save standard. Hate to say this but we need a standard w super power creep like world wake, or some decent power creep with insane flavor like Inn. It seems like whenever we get an insane set like that it pulls everyone back into the mix.

I've been comparing standard to flag football. People are fine with Standard when it's a smaller rotating sample of modern power level cards, but right now it feels a lot like we're playing flag football when we want to play tackle.