Dec 11, 2012 -- 3:58AM, vaultboyzk wrote:

It wasn't me who thought you're a shill.

I just don't think they will sell P9 in their store. I don't think they will release ME5 either.
As a fan of promos I think P9 cards will be promotional rewards a they will go under PRM tab

I metioned before I don't want to play in countless of tourneys to only get a chance to win some P9 cards and there should be one type of tournament where ppl can win them. And there could be some minor special tourney as well:

1. What about Spellslinging? Send every one wotc member available so as many as possible players can get a chance to fight with them.
2. What about a Community Cup celebration? Members of CC Team can get one copy (foil if their team wins the Cup) and if wizards lose there can be placed some special tournament queues where ppl can win P9 cards.
Just loose thoughts.

That would be incredibly expensive for WOTC to have their employees to let people queue to play them to give out cards.  Instead of the people doing their job they would spend so many hours playing online.  So no new development or any productivity, just people playing magic online.

The issue with both of your suggestions is that it would be very limiting and it would also make it so few people could actually get them.  You need a way for anybody in the client who wants it to have a chance at it.  Be they good or bad players.

Mythics in ME5 just make too much sense for them not to do something like that.  It rewards people who are good players because you can draft it, win the draft, get more product to do more drafts.  Rinse and repeat.  It also gives all people a chance to open them because they could just open packs if they didn't want to bother drafting.  Then it also makes them money as they could sell packs.

I don't think they should put FOW or the dual lands in ME5 if they do this.  That would devalue the other ME_ products.  They will put other value in it and make an interesting draft, but they will not do it in a way to make it so the other ME drafts never happen again.

Dec 11, 2012 -- 1:12PM, dangerlinto wrote:

Now, Heath, please don't make me go trolling through the interweb to find posts *by you* which I'm sure I'll find, complaing about the number of reprints in Master's Editions.

The problem with MED5 is there are 9 good cards left to print and 800 pieces of crap (sorry, Virtue's Ruin and so on).  So MED5 is either full of reprints or full of crap.  And in order to make the set draftable, the reprints would also have to be crap.

So MED5 would essentially be the P9 and draftable crap, or P9 and undraftable crap... or it'll be rainbows and lolipops and WoTC will reprint every Vintage playable over $10 and the drafting will be crap.

Two of these things are very unappealing to customers and one of them is a pipe dream for people like me who will give up a whole draft for a $8 rare. 

So I'm not against MED5 per say, I just don't see how they can make it good or that anyone here can expect it to be what they want.

I mean,  I guess they could just put 10 duals again like they did with MED4.  I'm not sure how many times WoTC can milk that cow, but maybe they can - there seems to be no upper limit to the appetite for duals.  Then Ted Knudson might cry though.

I am curious if the current ME products already cover all the cards made and printed prior to Mirage and other promotional only cards and sets such as the portal sets?  I doubt they would so there is probably cards out there that could be released in it.

I would also guess that reprinting cards isn't the problem, but more so reprinting the chase cards.  So you could see the $3 (arbitrary low dollar amount, could argue a different price point) and below cards be up for grabs in a new ME set but don't put in the more expensive cards that are in previous MEs.  That way those other cards would still hold value and the sets would still be clamored for.

Though if the power 9 were put into the set at mythic I do not think they would have to put too much more value cards into the set to make it popular for people looking for value drafting / packs.  Then they could focus on making a fun draft environment for the set along with releasing other cards that they had not released yet.

For me, if it had the power 9, a few value commons and uncommons (like Chain Lightning in one of the sets), and then a good drafting environment that would be enough.  If its good enough for me then I would assume it would be good enough for a lot of people.  Especially people a lot more interested in having power 9 than I am.  I'm slightly interested in having power 9 though I don't play any formats they are in.  While I know there are many others who are interested in them for either the formats they want to play or just the lore of having one.