AtomicRecord

I like to think I understand why people don't like Universes Beyond, but at some point you have to look at what’s actually happening instead of what you wish was happening.

Magic just had its biggest year ever, $1.7 billion in revenue, and a huge part of that came from UB. The Final Fantasy set alone was the best-selling set launch in the game’s history. Not a Standard set. Not a throwback to another successful set. Universes Beyond.

It’s not just one hit. By Wizards’ own metrics, Universes Beyond products are outperforming traditional Magic products in ways that don’t even come close to original sets when it comes to attracting new players. That’s not a fluke, that’s a pattern.

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I’ve been browsing this subreddit for about a year now. Recently I decided to join the fun and just start posting garbage because I literally have nothing better to do. I got started with the “culturally insensitive” cards that were banned - Crusade, Invoke Prejudice, those ones.

Each post gets hundreds of comments. Slap fights left and right. Some people just go mask-off and post really awful and racist things. And those posts are often upvoted while any criticism of them is downvoted.

There’s something to be said about people who are justifiably upset that the game is taking a direction they don’t want. I tend to empathize with these people a lot. Then there’s an entirely different gr

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