Universes Beyond being standard legal moving forward

[StuffedPlatypusLuvsOrigamiRabbit]

How does everyone feel about this? Am I being a boomer, is it time to freshen up the game and bring in new blood with every crossover known to man?

I joined the game years ago for the fantasy art and lore. So the new direction is a pretty big bummer for me. I'm not looking forward to having to cast Thano's Snap on Spongebob before he can assemble all his Krabby Patty artifacts.

Hell even the mainline universe isn't doing it for me. 80's horror, cowboy hats, and now what I can only assume is going to be a Mad Max Mariokart set. No thanks.

But I did enjoy Bloomborrow, which I know a lot of people didn't like because it was to cutesy (edgelords if you ask me...) And as someone that grew up on Final Fantasy I may be tempted to pick up some of those cards but I'd much rather have them not be standard legal.

Surely other people are excited for this because the UB sets sell well. But are they excited to play with Megatron or are they going into a binder as a collectors item to be cherished, or you know resold.

More related to these boards I hope Wizards is going to be able to obtain the rights to all UB sets in digital in perpetuity so we don't have arena standard and paper standard. Pretty sure they skipped MTGO when it came to UB.

[John-Silver]

Originally posted by ChaffyExpert:

Originally posted by John-Silver:

Nothing to do with theme, I also never mentioned spiderman? I just feel like if were going to allow decks with 1 off mechanics like "the ring tempts you" it's a little unfair because these mechanics, at least in the past, were designed and balanced without standard play in mind, where as cards like the Godzilla universes beyond set weren't actually new cards what so ever, their just "skins" of pre-existing mtg cards, these as I stated should always have been allowed in standard.

I mean why are these new universe beyond going to be standard but LOTR isn't- the latter of which is more in theme with Magic and created the fantasy genre.

Because theme has nothing to do with it, the set was not designed and balanced with standard in mind (9 nazgul, the one ring, etc.), has nothing to do with the theme of the set, has to do with the fact that they were not made with standard in mind during R&D.

[ChaffyExpert]

Originally posted by John-Silver:

Originally posted by ChaffyExpert:

I mean why are these new universe beyond going to be standard but LOTR isn't- the latter of which is more in theme with Magic and created the fantasy genre.

Because theme has nothing to do with it, the set was not designed and balanced with standard in mind (9 nazgul, the one ring, etc.), has nothing to do with the theme of the set, has to do with the fact that they were not made with standard in mind during R&D.

They are the designers though they could design it for standard. IT also doesn't seem like it couldn't be standard anyways.

Personally i think all the universe beyond should be it's own thing not part of standard. I'm just saying LOTR not being one of the UB in standard is weird.

As said before, it's like WOTC is trying to copy Yu-Gi-Oh. I mean this sort of mishmash of random themes without any ryhme or reason is like something from that.

[EDGE.bot]

I enjoy Arena for all its flaws because its essentially impossible to get standard games in paper in my area, however once i start seeing Thomas the tank engine vs Spiderman vs Moana vs transformers id say its going to be the end of the line.

[John-Silver]

Originally posted by EDGE.bot:

I enjoy Arena for all its flaws because its essentially impossible to get standard games in paper in my area, however once i start seeing Thomas the tank engine vs Spiderman vs Moana vs transformers id say its going to be the end of the line.

I love how everyone says stuff like this but nobody is commenting on the fact that the story and what not for bloomburrow was written by the woman who writes the stories for Dora the Explorer and Go Diego Go for Nickalodean. I swear their going to start hard gearing the game to children, like young children.