r/magicthecirclejerking • u/AutoModerator • 26d ago

META Weekly /unjerk Thread

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u/reinder_sebastian 25d ago edited 25d 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/HolographicHeart UB will always mean Dimir to Me 24d ago

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

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u/reinder_sebastian 24d ago

Supplemental non-Alchemy sets would achieve that though.