Last night a few friends and I where playing EDH Magic and the subject came up regarding Wizards and their opinion of the EDH format.
In the conversation that ensued almost every point that was brought up would have gone in a pros column for Wizards. Someone suggested that only needing one of a particular “money” card could potential cause Wizards to loose revenue but that point was quickly dismissed because Wizards doesn’t participate in the secondary market anyway. The individual store owners may not sell as money “money” cards as they normally would but I think any revenue lost to the “money” cards would be made up in rotating old stock that before EDH had no value.
Standard players are still going to play standard, they use MTG cards and that is where the similarity to EDH ends. Standard is about winning not playing. EDH on the other hand is all about playing, sure winning is fun but not at the expense of having fun.
I also think a format requiring only one of each card will push people back towards building sets instead of buying the individual cards they need for net decks. When I was playing extended and standard I never bought boxes of cards. I would wait for net decks to be posted online I would race to my local store and buy only the cards I needed to build a particular deck. If you got on it fast most store owners didn’t see an excess in demand and change prices accordingly until your deck was complete. Now with EDH most cards could see some action, which makes owning a complete set of cards more important than in other formats.
I also think FOIL cards will see more demand with EDH. When I was playing standard or even extended for that matter decks changed so fast buying FOILs for your deck wasn’t practical (like it is in EDH). Not to mention not to many conversations ever take place during a standard game about the art on one particular card like they do in EDH.
EDH is first and foremost a fun game. If you can make your experience more enjoyable buy adding cards you don’t normally play with or adding a FOIL here and there I say BRAVO.
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