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Zeus posted...

That's why strategies, combos, and synergy are set up on a block-by-block basis in MtG, tbh, and why standard (or whatever the format is called) is restricted to the current core set and last two blocks.

Yes, but that also means you are pretty much forced into constantly buying cards, as all of the cards you bought more than a year or so ago cease being "legal" and wind up being worthless garbage.

It's the main reason why my friends only play Type I rules from the 90s, and why it would be a cold day in hell before any of us ever agreed to Standard rules or entered official tournaments. We play almost entirely with cards we bought more than a decade ago, and even thought we occasionally buy new cards, none of us would ever want to be entirely restricted to only new cards.



I_Abibde posted...

I stand corrected on the point of sohei, which goes to show how long it has been since I last looked at the 1st Edition Oriental Adventures (which I got used, and which is falling apart). And I remember the L5R tabletop game being really popular back when I was at university (... fifteen years ago), but this topic is the first time I have seen it mentioned since then.

L5R sort of peaked creatively at the Day of Thunder (1997), but had a few more years of popularity before interest started to wane. By 2007 the game still had a pretty dedicated fanbase, but it was definitely smaller and more niche... and after the Race for the Throne, a lot of people started losing interest, which ultimately led to AEG selling off the rights to the game in 2015. I can definitely see it not being talked about by a ton of people in the last decade or so, and even before that I could see it being overshadowed by Magic (or for younger people, by Pokemon or Yu-Gi-Oh).


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