tylerja-blog asked:
"That’s the nature of Magic. It adapts to the needs of the collective whole. It used to upset me, but I came to realize it is one of the game’s greatest strengths. It becomes the game its players need/want it to be." Is to me, a market-friendly way to say "sloughs emotionally invested players in pursuit of the unremarkable, but widely palatable middle"
Many players like to assume the core of the people making the changes aren’t enfranchised players, but it’s exactly the opposite. Why, for example, is Universes Beyond so popular? Because the people who play the most Magic really adore it.
We’re not ignoring the hard-core Magic players, we’re doing what they say they most want through their actions and in market research.
Magic is a business. Ignoring our core customers would just be bad business.
We make changes because Magic players, and especially our hard-core enfranchised players, want it. Maybe in this particular case it’s not you in particular (or maybe it is, I don’t know), but it’s not us ignoring “emotionally invested players”.
I think this is unfortunately all we can do :(
Card Sphere and Mana Pool were two other services I found through all of this, but I haven't used either yet.