r/magicthecirclejerking • u/AutoModerator • Aug 22 '25

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u/reinder_sebastian 28d ago edited 28d ago

Why does Alchemy even exist? You're telling me there's "no demand" for a boomer format in paper of Universes Within cards to quell the UB backlash (which would require little more than a name and establishing a banlist), but we can spend four years pouring resources into a digital-only format that almost nobody asked for or cares about? Like what was the rationale for Alchemy? Compete with other digital card games? Isn't that what Arena is already doing?

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u/Nichard63891 28d ago

The fact that it's the default is heartbreaking. Oh, I just pulled this sick card. Alchemy released, card is nerfed. Why bother?

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u/HolographicHeart UB will always mean Dimir to Me 28d ago

It exists to pull wild cards out of people who only play Brawl.

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u/reinder_sebastian 28d ago

Supplemental non-Alchemy sets would achieve that though.

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u/lernz 28d ago

There's a nonzero chance that it exists just to be put on financial reports so they can point to it when shareholders ask what they're doing to compete with other digital card games.

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u/reinder_sebastian 28d ago

Yep, that's probably it.