Unpopular Opinion

I think some of the lore is cool, but actually all games based on collectables are trash.

It's also the sheer amount... They are getting new sets every two months... On top of things like secret lairs and everything... It's just to much....

Commander has always been my least favorite way to play. I have no comment on anything else because I lost interest completely when they started pushing it. But I will say, every time I hear news about it I'm glad that I stopped dumping money into that cash cow of a card game. And from a business standpoint, I feel they've shot themselves in the foot. The reason why Pokemon cards are still so widely sought after is because, for the most part, things have stayed the same (And collectors, of course). With MTG there's basically no point in owning any cards before 2016 since they're all underpowered or illegal in any formal setting. Besides hardcore collectors, they're basically just cardboard.

I like to play Commander... in a sense that I have a deck dedicated to larger games where I'm happy to mostly mash shit together in an oversized deck and only have one copy of each card. I have plenty of fun in games where nobody knows what I'm about to do, including me!

3+ player games would make Arena more fun as well.

Never been a fan of CCGs as their business models are exploitative and inevitably lead to power creep.

Netrunner and Compile have me sorted for card games for a while.

WotC has been royally fucking up Standard for the past few years, but I don't think that Commander is the problem.

The problem is that WotC wants to push more product, which is messing with how Standard works. They should just accept that there are four standard sets a year, choose the most thematic Universes Beyond set to be a part of Standard magic, and accept that some Universes Beyond product shouldn't be in Standard Magic.

Psh I love playing commander. Me and 3 buddies just getting hammered and shit talking for 6 hours is great fun. I’m not a super magic purist though. I can see how if you’re into other formats the pandering to commander players would be annoying. But I’m the one being pandered to so I’m fine with it.

I'm 50. I was playing M:tG back in high school. Revised was the unlimited set out at the time. I thought they were overdoing the expansions back then.

Now it all seems remarkably silly to me with all the licensed stuff, and I'm glad I gave it up 30 years ago.

It was fun at the time but now it's too exhausting to keep up with.

The game has to evolve or die. There's only so many 1 cost 1/1 mana dorks you can print before people stop caring.

But when things evolve, some people join, others leave. You sound like a leaver. It sucks that you lost something you liked, but it's not that unpopular of an opinion. I'm sure most people playing 20 years ago don't still play.

My unpopular opinion is I don’t mind the tie ins (mostly). I remember being a kid and wanting all my favorite characters to have cards, so I’d feel bad yucking someone else’s yum just because I don’t care for a particular franchise. That being said I’m also a bit confused, op. Standards still exists. This feels like you’re saying “I don’t like Super Mario Advanced 3, because Mario Bros isn’t as good a game as Super Mario Bros 3.” Though if you said any of the following I’d agree: Wizards focuses too much on commander; changing standard rotation rules wasn’t the best idea; the last few standard sets have had somewhat ridiculous themes; using standard design space to print cards targeting commander players might muddy the standard card pool.

I haven't played since before Wizards started pushing Commander, at that time called EDH.

So you haven't played in two decades. Hard to take your opinion seriously. You can play for free with their app now.

Planeswalkers broke the game.