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Jun 18, 2010 -- 7:38AM, Qmark wrote:

It's pretty obvious that the "new format" to replace a mortally wounded Legacy is New Extended.   
Extended is dying from half-assed support and decreasing availability of boosters that sold out six or seven years ago, and nobody's buying those boosters that just rotated out of standard.
Legacy is dying from half-assed support and decreasing availability of  staples they haven't printed for sixteen years, and refuse print again.

Thus, the solution is to cut Extended off of boosters that people actually bought back then, but can't easily find now (Darksteel, Ravnica), while remnant packs of LorSha block sit around various card-shops, completely unsalable.  Then, announce an Extended Night once a month or once every other month, let Legacy die its inevitable lingering death, and suddenly Little Billy reconsiders those dusty packs that everyone says "aren't legal anymore" - while at the same time the Jaded Old Farts are forced to take those sets seriously that they previously dismissed as 'weaksauce', if they want to play at all.

New Extended, Dying Legacy, and Siberia in between 'breaks' the public of any crazy ideas of longevity, and moves stagnant boosters everyone otherwise would have immediately quit buying after 15-24 months, and hastens the death of Legacy by flooding it full of 'new' players fighting for a decreasingly available and increasingly overpriced pool of duals and other ancient staples.
It's a perfect solution, really - that is except for established Magic Players. Those guys get screwed.

May 17, 2010 -- 10:17AM, JustTerrorIt wrote:

One with Nothing is the third iteration in an attempt to make Black Lotus fair:

Black Lotus: That's too good, we need to tone it down.
Lion's Eye Diamond: Dammit, players are still using it in a very broken manner!
One with Nothing: Alright! We got it now.

Twin2 wrote:

What happened to the really fun cards? Well you see a long long time ago the earth was ruled by dinosaurs. They were big so not a lot of people went around hassling them. Then a giant meteorite struck the earth, good bye dinosaurs. But what if the dinosaurs weren't all destroyed? What if the impact of that meteorite created a parallel dimension where the dinosaurs continue to thrive and evolve into intelligent vicious aggressive beings? What if they found a way back? ....wait that's not what happened to the fun cards that's the intro to the mario brothers movie. Get those two confused all the time, my bad.

May 13, 2010 -- 8:48PM, Qwyrxian wrote:

It's a folllow-up on the Priceless Treasures, Deadly Perils idea.  See, what happened was, you got the packs that the Eldrazi had already gotten to--the had annihilated everything but the land itself.

In fall, expect to open some packs and find cards covered in goopy, black oil. 

It's all about the marketing angle, people.