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Basically, as someone who used to blog: You're pretty much stating the obvious, and the tone of the article is indistinguishable from any other blog. But most of all:

"Imagine if you wanted to play vintage and you finally saved up $2000 and bought a set of moxen (you got a really good deal). Then you find out Wizards decided to break their reprint policy and sell a special edition, from the vault, tournament legal box product with the same set for $100. What a slap in the face."

The biggest slap in the face have always been not bieng able to play with the cards you own. This is coming from someone who owns some power and several duals. I'd rather they be 1/10th of the price because of a reprint than see vintage (and to an extend legacy) be obsoleted. WotC tried to break reprint - Aaron Forsythe went as far as to publicly state his dislike of the policy and several members of RnD traveled to SCG, TnT, CFB and several other big vendors and discussed with them reprint policy. It seemed for a moment it would finally get axed, because all the parties gave the green light, but suddenly, without explanation, WotC said they wouild never change the policy, ever. Means a possible law suit threat.

Aug 17, 2011 -- 9:04PM, Nighthavk wrote:

Basically, as someone who used to blog: You're pretty much stating the obvious, and the tone of the article is indistinguishable from any other blog. But most of all:

"Imagine if you wanted to play vintage and you finally saved up $2000 and bought a set of moxen (you got a really good deal). Then you find out Wizards decided to break their reprint policy and sell a special edition, from the vault, tournament legal box product with the same set for $100. What a slap in the face."

The biggest slap in the face have always been not bieng able to play with the cards you own. 

Thanks for the feedback.

While I agree there is a lot of background information, I don't feel like the entire article is obvious. Predicting that Wizards will reprint cards in stand-alone products to engineer the price of Modern tournament staples downward to maximize player base and profit doesn't seem obvious to me. I mean, I could be wrong!

I hear what you're saying about the the slap in the face being you can't play with your power 9 because Vintage is obsoleted. But, hasn't that already happened? I guess Modern obsoletes your Dual Lands now too (eventually). 

Transitioning eternal formats may be a bit of a painful process, but once we get there we'll be in a better place.

Legacy is my favorite format, over the years I've slowly built up my collection to where I have a good number of legacy staples in my collection (though I only own a playset of taiga and a couple of bayou's and plataeu's as far as the dual lands go).

What annoys me about modern is the ban list seems way to conservative, everytime I've had an idea for a deck I've hit problems with a card being on the banlist.

I sleeved up a midrange aggro deck only to find that jitte is banned.

I tried to make a White weenie deck then Stoneforge gets banned,

I made a bant deck (with jace as the win con), jace is banned, oh and so is ancestral visions.

Then there are other cards that are banned that leave me scratching my head like div top and chrome mox (Div top I can understand if they don't want counter balance decks but why not ban counter balance then).

Without seeing much of the meta my feeling is that combo and control are not good enough, I suspect the format will be dominated by aggro decks at least for a while and thats partly the banned lists fault. Of course I'm just looking at the format through legacy tinted glasses, I guess I'll give it a few months and see what happens.

Aug 17, 2011 -- 9:44PM, badmalloc wrote:

Thanks for the feedback.

While I agree there is a lot of background information, I don't feel like the entire article is obvious. Predicting that Wizards will reprint cards in stand-alone products to engineer the price of Modern tournament staples downward to maximize player base and profit doesn't seem obvious to me. I mean, I could be wrong!

That is the whoile purpose of Modern - An eternal format where they don't have to worry about prices.

If you track its evolution, the first idea for an eternal format not haunted by reprint policy was by Ben Bleisweiss of SCG, dubbed Overextended, that was Mercadian Masques/7th forward. Eventually, Modern was proposed by Wizards inlieu of Overextended, stated by Tomn Lapille.

Aug 17, 2011 -- 9:44PM, badmalloc wrote:

I hear what you're saying about the the slap in the face being you can't play with your power 9 because Vintage is obsoleted. But, hasn't that already happened? I guess Modern obsoletes your Dual Lands now too (eventually). 

That's exactly the point. The high price barrier to Vintage killed it, because you can't compete without Power/Duals and they're obscenely expensive. And they couldn't be reprinted. Again, thus Modern.

Yes and no. Yes, prices would shoot up initially. Then, a year later, they´d drop to just about the same level because there would be more of them, but they would also be playable in Extended. Then, once they rotate out of there they would drop again.

I´d really rather see some of the staples reprinted. Even if prices are a bit higher, there would also be more of them to go around, which would make trading for them easier for a lot of players. This would mean that more players would feel that Modern is accesible - especially new players, seeing as they would need the same lands for Standard and Modern.

The problem is that Wizards don´t want to print powerful duals with a life cost, as they "don´t appeal as much to newer players". This means that if they were to be reprinted, it would likely not be in a Core Set, making each one harder to reprint in more than one set.

I still hope that we will see Shocklands in Standard. Now that the Zendikar Fetchlands are rotating out of the format, it´s also much more of a real possiblity, IMO. For some reason, I get the feeling that Wizards don´t want Standard to have fetches and Shocklands at the same time. =)