If I owned Hasbro and Wizards this is what I would do with Magic!>stop doing universes beyond, ban all universes beyond sets in all formats>reprint the reserved list as commons in a Legacy pack that's as cheap as a normal booster box>make a power nine pack that includes all of the power nine for 5 bucks, buy three for a playset>stop focusing on commander, keep it as a casual format>four standard legal sets a year>bring back challenger decks>make challenger decks for Pioneer, Modern and Legacy>support Pioneer>bring back duel decks as an introductory product for dirt cheap>reprint old sets for draft purposes, no remasters, it's the old sets as it originally came out>make art edgier and fantastical again, no more digital safe art>make each set have it's own unique art direction>make each block focus on one plane again>focus more on competitive and casual kitchen table magic>cheap casual products, affordable competitive products>reprint expensive cards in all formats based on demand to kill the speculator market>B-b-b-b-b-but commander is the format everyone plays, no one cares about standard!Yeah, that's cause commander is the only format Wizards support with accessible entry-level products and current Standard is toxic as fuck.>B-b-b-b-b-but speculators keep the game aliveNo. Games are meant to be played, not invested in.
>>96655075Also if you REALLY wanna invest in limited cards you could just buy the now banned and never to be reprinted universes beyond cards. There you go, that's your new reserved list.
>>96655075Oh yeah, I would also dump play and collectors boosters and just bring back draft boosters like god intended.
>>96655075If I ran wizards i would make it all universe beyond, because I think it's funny that it makes you sad.
>>96655164Found the Disney adult.
>>96655075OK, but what would you do to make modern D&D stop sucking dragon dick?
>>96655173If so, they should just play Lorcana instead. That's a game literally designed to be Disney franchise crossovers.
>>96655389AD&D 3rd edition.
>>96655075Also hire a social media rep whose job it is to reply to raging speculators and Disney adults complaining on twitter and troonsky with the most repulsive soijaks possible.
>>96655389RETVRN to AD&D as a basis. Make Dark Sun the new default setting and make it even more offensive. OK, done.
>>96655075I'd be a bit softer on "Universes Beyond", moving them from Magic: the Gathering to the oft-ignored Deckmaster label, treating them as licensed TCGs on a compatible-though-not-necessarily-the-same system going forward. This both gives a hard cutoff from MtG formats and allows experimentation with root premises like the mana-base to "backport" into funky side-formats of MtG.Just printing Challenger decks to demand would probably do for nuking the secondary market and double as a fast-track to competitive, as it organically crushes any attempt at scalping meta-chasers by selling whatever the best-performing players are using.Doing away with the Reserved List speculators, however, has lawfare cost attached to it. As far as I know it hasn't actually gone to court, but the Reserved List comes from an explicit public statement to the speculators that the company would not be reprinting certain cards which COULD be legally binding in some cases.>>96655389Navigate the low levels of Basic, AD&D 2e, 3.5, 4e, and 5e into a common core ruleset to be a new Basic set, then use the Expert, Companion, Masters, and Immortals names to segregate tiers of play with a baseline nominally adhering to a mix of 4e and 5e "progressively more spectacular murderhobo" but with clearly-laid-out optional rules tweaking it to TSR-era norms as feasible. Nu-Advanced then branches off from Nu-Basic with its differing baseline for higher levels specifically dedicated to improved TSR-era compatibility, but keeping the door open to WotC-isms to support the 3.X madhouse. Then have boxed sets for previous edition emulation that have only the rules in use and conversion guidelines to piggyback on backlog and avoid entry cost bloat. Later on, as the community gnaws through the options to settle on popular combinations, box those the same way.Maybe chuck a bunch of stuff into cards to directly treat it like an LCG.
