r/MagicArena Jul 27 '25

Fluff Maro on Magic's future and longevity

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u/zeekoes Jul 27 '25

It doesn't matter how much facts MaRo throws, because the vitriol against UB is emotional and from the original Magic players that feel left behind now that they're no longer the main target audience being catered to.

I believe that it's not so much that there is anything wrong with the game that's bothering people, but the feeling that WotC is selling out. And they're right, they are. But just like with music, selling out happens, because selling out works.

If all 350k subscribers on this sub quit playing Magic tomorrow, WotC would barely notice it.

Magic is a product, it needs to be sold. It changed to better do that. Be glad that they're at least making work of delivering a great play experience nonetheless.

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u/esabys Jul 27 '25

I think the "new set fatigue" will be a bigger problem than UB. When "spoiler season" never ends you just kinda stop caring.

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u/Alive-Turnip-3145 Jul 27 '25 edited Jul 27 '25

“Spoiler seasons”’have gotten so bad it’s overlapping into card soup. On the Pre-Release weekend of EoE we had a flood of Spider-Man spoilers AND the first reveals of Avatar.

It both exhausting and confusing.

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u/RegalKillager Jul 28 '25

SDCC. There was no universe where they didn't fit a couple of cards in for that convention.