The core design of Star Wars Unlimited is amazing. Hope they get more powerful cards in future expansions. I’d definitely last, our local is having a blast.
The game itself is amazing. I did a video on that a while back. How the game is being managed currently by FFG/Asmodee is concerning for me as a retailer now. Play the game. It’s a great card game.
Same. I was all-in on Lorcana while skeptical about SWU's art. But after playing SWU, the mechanics won me over and I warmed up to the art. Dropped Lorcana and will ride SWU until it dies. I figure it will be my last CCG as I'm not a spring chicken. :D
Star Wars Unlimited has been a blast! I've been a magic player for years, but SWU has goten me to sell most of my collection for boxes and singles. It slumped a good bit at our local scene when product was impossible to get, but since restocks began, it's been surging at my LGS. If this game gets cancelled or shelved, I'm in it til the end. I'm pretty optimistic for its future. I've also heard really good stuf about Lorcana and One Piece, they both seem awesome from a cursory look at the rules. I'd dip my toes into em, but I only have the money to hard focus on one TCG and Star Wars is just too good right now. It really is a great year for TCGs.
Agreed. Any of them by themselves and the business isn't great. But a bunch of them together and they have nice communities without the pressure and spend for some of the bigger games. I'll sell whatever people want to buy regarding CCG's.
Thanks so much for stopping by. As a New Yorker I talk pretty fast. It's not for everyone but I did get a compliment from another user that I am the only creator that he doesn't have to 2x the speed. :)
One of these days I need to pop in and visit your store. I'm in Rochester nearly every year for your neighbor down the streets big yearly weiss event. Your list sounds about right for what I've seen here in the midwest at the gaming stores I frequent.
Store owner here and I had a couple questions: - Magic obviously has one of the best revenues, but how does it pan out in net versus gross? - Do you think older stores do better with Magic while newer stores should focus on newer properties? I ask as we saw SWU outsell Magic in our location but we have done a lot to grow the SWU community since the start. - Would these ranks change for more generalist stores versus card game focused stores? - Would they change for stores that focus more on casual audiences and less on singles sales?
I do a good amount of consultation work and my answer to all of the above is a bit of a throw away but "it depends". There's lots of variables, too many to try and answer all of those really good questions accurately. I'll do my best to simplify where I can. For your first question, the only thing that matters in business is net. I now a store this year that is going to do 180 million in sales and they are hoping for a 1% profit. My net is much higher than that but everyone is different in terms of what they want in their business. Second question is that Magic players will play at the location they find most desirable to play. Now older stores that have built longstanding communities have a leg up but what I have seen is a new store can come into a market and disrupt it by providing things to those customers that the older store isn't. Better stock, better pricing, cleaner store, bigger play space, better events, more supplies. There's a ton of ways to do it. Regarding SWU outselling Magic the first set did that for everyone. We were coming off of Karlov which didn't sell well and Set 1 was on fire. Third question I have no idea. I feel generalist stores typically have to have passionate employees in each category for them to carry their weight and typically that comes with a big store footprint. Again everything depends on the market, the stores and the store in particular. For your fourth question optimally you would do both. I don't look at casual customers as customers that don't buy singles it's quite the opposite. They tend to buy more singles than competitive players for a number of reasons. People assume because of the size of our store that we are really competitive store. We may have people playing more tuned decks than a random store but that's less about our players being competitive players and more about the meta we have in store and the expertise we provide those players at our counter. If you are interested in consultation feel free to send me an email at travis at millenniumgames dot com
I really hope Equinox sees this video as it is exactly what I'm worried for about Altered. The prices and enthusiasm for Altered is night and day in North America vs. Europe
Konami has done a solid job in terms of numbers this year for events. There's a ton of people playing the game. More than I can remember in quite a while it's just in a tough spot given the time span it's been around. If you look what Magic is doing to try and save it's game I think it would be nice if Konami took a similar look to see if there was value in trying the same.
Man i had to double check on set 3 prices for SWU, and while there are a couple of cards being sold below market price, it does look like technically, there are 3 standard print Legendaries at the $20+ range with one of them climbing in price slowly (still not amazing in terms of having multiple chase cards). Honestly, I get it from trying to run a business that you want to sell for more to make a profit. As a consumer, i like the availability. I think the print of set 2 was about right, but, like you said, it felt weaker. I'm hoping that changes with set 3 settling alongside a Boba restriction. Pushing more leaders from set 2 and even 3 to be played. But imo I think their real problem is a lack of official events during their first year. Without official competitive tournaments, you don't have a strong basis for a secondary market driver. I think that year 2 will shake that up when tournaments get going. We may even see prices go up from sets 1-3. Provided they don't absurdly over print sets moving forward. The game is great tbh. Even if it does fail, if someone takes similar mechanics and makes their own hopefully interesting IP using them, I think they would have a good run. SWU solves a lot of other TCGs mechanics problems. I think more people should try it tbh, even if they don't like the IP. It's a solid game and has mechanically the best play style for a competitive framework.
Some of those Legendaries have seen prices go up since the video. When I taped it was only "Now there are two of them" that was above $20. Bane and Maul with Aayla slightly behind have crept up. That's fairly standard in terms of movement as a new meta fleshes out. I didn't do a total dollar value set analysis. In the majority of cases cards will drop as more come into supply and the cream rises.
@traviss9612 that's valid. I'm hoping that even with the availability that when the competitive scene fully takes off, prices stabilize. People love to build what's winning from brewers who top just as much as they like to build for characters they like, probably more even lol. There is no shame to net decking. It just comes with the territory.
Great video. Did a really good job of breaking it all down. I hope Star Wars unlimited fixes their issues. It’s been really fun and got a good local community. Lorcana I was excited for but swu is just more fun imo. Always wanted to play flesh and blood wish we had more local players. But I’ve been playing blitz with my brother. It’s fun. Learned about grand archive I bought a bunch of intro decks. Been learning with my brother. I like it. Really hoping it catches on. Kinda been getting back into magic. Finished a standard deck. Played a 4 foundation pre releases. I just wish wizards of the coast could become an independent game and leave hasbro.
SWU has attracted all the competitive players from our other TCG's. Magic modern, pioneer, and standard are now dead in our region and SWU has completely replaced them. Face to Face games Canada now share's their tour promotion image with SWU. Commander is untouched, but curiosities about Twin Suns is there, although I'm unsure it will have the same appeal. Lorcana is in a strange place, the community isn't growing at all, and nobody is leaving it however at least half the player base is also playing SWU and OnePiece now. Altered product can more or less be sent for PSA grading at this point it's so untouched by the community. Although MtG is the current winner of our store both in play and purchase wise, the business model is essentially "attracting new players faster than the veterans can quit." Commander pods for enfranchised players are becoming miserable experiences due to slowplay and having to teach at least 1 person at the table. Our store has been doing well on MtG singles from these enfranchised players quitting en masse.
100% perfect analysis of the TCG market. YGO does not know where to go. powercreep....and if ALtered does not launch the marketplace asap, it's doomed in the US. period
Both. It’s hard to tell if it’s one over the other right now as we don’t have player numbers. My experience is that you can’t have one without the other. If I look at the trajectory of Meta Zoo that speaks loudly to that. It was a weird time in the world. We sold a good chunk of those cards but no one played the game in store ever.
I'm not seeing the prices you're talking about with Star Wars Unlimited. There are several non hyperspace or spotlight cards selling for more than $20 on TCGplayer.
Prices will shift in the marketplace. Specifically early after release. At the time of the video the prices I had talked about were what was happening in the market. I think I commented on another poster that put forth the same thing. At the time I filmed this there was only one card.
@@definitelynotmany4972 We carried the game for quite a while and ran tournaments in store until fairly recently. There was no money for the store to be made. The group that played in the store would put their money together and buy cases from another vendor for near cost. The only revenue the game was generating was tournament entry. To stay in business we need to make profit. If the company doesn't care about their supply and the players don't want to buy product from me there's not much I can do unfortunately.
The game itself is well it’s just how they are managing supply. There’s a challenge in the production of a card that often times in the need for scale to make pricing work they end up overprinting product. The number of card games Bushiroad has done that with is everyone in history. It’s a solid game and we have a great community it’s just not viable for most retailers because of the supply management.
I'm not surprised Flesh and Blood has dropped off. After three sets in a row where I didn't want a single card in the set I had to bow out. It seems like the local scene for the game has also dropped off.
I think that Flesh and Blood isn’t well designed anymore for casual players. For once they should kept selling singular Blitz Decks and not these playmat boxes that have 3 or 4 blitz decks inside. And Armory Decks are too expensive if you compare them with other tcg deck products. Even booster packs aren’t much better because the sets after history pack 2 are too specialized for individual classes. Just imagine you start your FAB journey by going into a LGS and buy one or two starter decks, they’re probably from HVY, HP1, or Outsiders, because they’re the newest singular blitz decks and after a few weeks you decide to buy some random booster packs in a LGS because you want to bring new wind into your Rhinar Blitz Deck. How big is the possibility you get something for your Deck? Pretty low because the newest pack that synergies with your deck is I think from the third newest set. I love flesh and blood, but nowadays if you’re a casual player it’s really hard to have fun with the random products that are on the lgs shelf except if you play all classes. Of course you can order the right products but this is only possible if you know what classes are in the sets and you can’t buy the new cards as singular blitz decks. For example every time I wanted to play a tcg casually as kid or nowadays as an adult I only bought tcg Decks because I had and have a quantity over quality mindset because I want to play different decks and not just one or two good decks and I don’t like the feeling of wasting money when you buy a bad pack. And I think half of all the casual players in the tcg sphere have a similar mindset. I think my journey with fab would had been very short if I wanted to stay being a casual player but thank god I started to play it more competitively because it’s one hell of a blast to play it like that. Btw if a player only buys singles this player isn’t a casual player in my book, I mean if you buy singles you probably have a deck list that you’re testing and refining on an online client. And one thing I want to add is, if sellers don’t want to display those products because the consumers are mostly just single and playset sellers who only orders these products, then the game won’t get shelf exposure. So if you stumble upon flesh and blood you only do it through the Internet and not through irl stores.
As someone looking to start playing flesh and blood I find armory decks much more appealing over blitz decks. An armory deck gets used in the most played format, blitz decks seem useless after you've learned how to play the game. The armory decks sell for the same price as commander precons, I don't see how they are too expensive.
@ I agree to your first point that they are more appealing. But the price is still very steep if you look at it from a casual perspective. I mean in Europe Pokemon and Yugioh Decks are around 8 to 16 Euros. And I know they’re more marketed at kids, the cards are worse from a competitive point of view, and YGO Decks only have 40 cards but casuals don’t necessarily look for competitive cards, often they just want to have a deck or several decks that they can bring to a kitchen table or a playground setting. And even when we don’t look at the pure casual experience, but more so at the semi professional level, the armory equivalent in ygo (buying 3 modern yugioh structure decks) is “just” 24€, about as strong as a armory deck, and have 120 pieces of cardboard. I’m not well informed about the product lines of mtg, so I can’t explain why their numbers are that much better than the ones from fab even though their price points seem similar to each other. What would your explanation be why flesh and blood had a loss in sales? A genuine question.
@Rockleefan3 is the loss in sales global or regional? From a live play and tournament perspective, FAB seems to be doing well. From a rip packs perspective, FAB seems to have stalled out and doesn't have much momentum there. I know the Japan release has gone well but that could be covering other areas softening. I'm also curious how seasonal FAB could be over time. For a game focused on in person play, I would expect a downturn as the weather turns to crap. Combine that with a lack of people just ripping packs and FAB wouldn't look great in some regions. I live in Portland Oregon, it seems pretty strong here.
I'm not sure I follow. If what you are saying is that they get a smaller allocation than big stores that might be true and is typically tied to their cash flow or available finances. Now if the value of the boxes they are buying increases the revenue they would typically generate from the same box it should help build their cash reserves and give them a better ability to be able to buy more moving forward.
Man you can tell this list is really skewed against any anime based game that isnt one piece. Weiss, Union Arena, Grand Archive are all huge sellers in our area and shops cant keep the stuff in stock.
Nah, bro, you're so wrong about you. He'll have in the eternal format.I don't want it to be magic.But that's what makes you feel you feel if it did that?I promise you the game would die. The whole point of view goes to have the vast knowledge of the last twenty five years, not the vast knowledge of the last two....
The core design of Star Wars Unlimited is amazing. Hope they get more powerful cards in future expansions. I’d definitely last, our local is having a blast.
Same! It always gets so much hate from non players which is weird
SWU is absolutely solid! Love this game! Game is so exciting now with the Boba Ban.
The game itself is amazing. I did a video on that a while back. How the game is being managed currently by FFG/Asmodee is concerning for me as a retailer now. Play the game. It’s a great card game.
I’m having a blast playing Star Wars Unlimited. I’m all in on this game. I’ll ride it out till the end.
This is the type of energy a game needs. It’s a fantastic card game.
Same here. It made playing other TCGs boring for me.
Yeah man, SWU has been so fun to play coming from MtG!
Same. I was all-in on Lorcana while skeptical about SWU's art. But after playing SWU, the mechanics won me over and I warmed up to the art. Dropped Lorcana and will ride SWU until it dies. I figure it will be my last CCG as I'm not a spring chicken. :D
Star Wars Unlimited has been a blast! I've been a magic player for years, but SWU has goten me to sell most of my collection for boxes and singles. It slumped a good bit at our local scene when product was impossible to get, but since restocks began, it's been surging at my LGS. If this game gets cancelled or shelved, I'm in it til the end. I'm pretty optimistic for its future.
I've also heard really good stuf about Lorcana and One Piece, they both seem awesome from a cursory look at the rules. I'd dip my toes into em, but I only have the money to hard focus on one TCG and Star Wars is just too good right now. It really is a great year for TCGs.
There's no shortage of quality CCG's on the market right now. We're definitely spoiled that way.
Same mate, keeping a few commander decks, but otherwise in the process of selling out of my MtG collection for SWU.
Thank you for the insights! The number of "ok" card games out there right now is staggering.
Agreed. Any of them by themselves and the business isn't great. But a bunch of them together and they have nice communities without the pressure and spend for some of the bigger games. I'll sell whatever people want to buy regarding CCG's.
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Thanks so much for stopping by. As a New Yorker I talk pretty fast. It's not for everyone but I did get a compliment from another user that I am the only creator that he doesn't have to 2x the speed. :)
One of these days I need to pop in and visit your store. I'm in Rochester nearly every year for your neighbor down the streets big yearly weiss event. Your list sounds about right for what I've seen here in the midwest at the gaming stores I frequent.
Store owner here and I had a couple questions:
- Magic obviously has one of the best revenues, but how does it pan out in net versus gross?
- Do you think older stores do better with Magic while newer stores should focus on newer properties? I ask as we saw SWU outsell Magic in our location but we have done a lot to grow the SWU community since the start.
- Would these ranks change for more generalist stores versus card game focused stores?
- Would they change for stores that focus more on casual audiences and less on singles sales?
I do a good amount of consultation work and my answer to all of the above is a bit of a throw away but "it depends". There's lots of variables, too many to try and answer all of those really good questions accurately. I'll do my best to simplify where I can. For your first question, the only thing that matters in business is net. I now a store this year that is going to do 180 million in sales and they are hoping for a 1% profit. My net is much higher than that but everyone is different in terms of what they want in their business. Second question is that Magic players will play at the location they find most desirable to play. Now older stores that have built longstanding communities have a leg up but what I have seen is a new store can come into a market and disrupt it by providing things to those customers that the older store isn't. Better stock, better pricing, cleaner store, bigger play space, better events, more supplies. There's a ton of ways to do it. Regarding SWU outselling Magic the first set did that for everyone. We were coming off of Karlov which didn't sell well and Set 1 was on fire. Third question I have no idea. I feel generalist stores typically have to have passionate employees in each category for them to carry their weight and typically that comes with a big store footprint. Again everything depends on the market, the stores and the store in particular. For your fourth question optimally you would do both. I don't look at casual customers as customers that don't buy singles it's quite the opposite. They tend to buy more singles than competitive players for a number of reasons. People assume because of the size of our store that we are really competitive store. We may have people playing more tuned decks than a random store but that's less about our players being competitive players and more about the meta we have in store and the expertise we provide those players at our counter. If you are interested in consultation feel free to send me an email at travis at millenniumgames dot com
I really hope Equinox sees this video as it is exactly what I'm worried for about Altered. The prices and enthusiasm for Altered is night and day in North America vs. Europe
I agree completely.
They really need Pax-U to be a success I think
I’m so glad to see a real retailer point out everything wrong with yugioh in a video like this, hope Konami sees this. Great stuff 💯🎴🤌🏼
Konami has done a solid job in terms of numbers this year for events. There's a ton of people playing the game. More than I can remember in quite a while it's just in a tough spot given the time span it's been around. If you look what Magic is doing to try and save it's game I think it would be nice if Konami took a similar look to see if there was value in trying the same.
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Man i had to double check on set 3 prices for SWU, and while there are a couple of cards being sold below market price, it does look like technically, there are 3 standard print Legendaries at the $20+ range with one of them climbing in price slowly (still not amazing in terms of having multiple chase cards). Honestly, I get it from trying to run a business that you want to sell for more to make a profit. As a consumer, i like the availability. I think the print of set 2 was about right, but, like you said, it felt weaker. I'm hoping that changes with set 3 settling alongside a Boba restriction. Pushing more leaders from set 2 and even 3 to be played. But imo I think their real problem is a lack of official events during their first year. Without official competitive tournaments, you don't have a strong basis for a secondary market driver. I think that year 2 will shake that up when tournaments get going. We may even see prices go up from sets 1-3. Provided they don't absurdly over print sets moving forward.
The game is great tbh. Even if it does fail, if someone takes similar mechanics and makes their own hopefully interesting IP using them, I think they would have a good run. SWU solves a lot of other TCGs mechanics problems. I think more people should try it tbh, even if they don't like the IP. It's a solid game and has mechanically the best play style for a competitive framework.
Some of those Legendaries have seen prices go up since the video. When I taped it was only "Now there are two of them" that was above $20. Bane and Maul with Aayla slightly behind have crept up. That's fairly standard in terms of movement as a new meta fleshes out. I didn't do a total dollar value set analysis. In the majority of cases cards will drop as more come into supply and the cream rises.
@traviss9612 that's valid. I'm hoping that even with the availability that when the competitive scene fully takes off, prices stabilize. People love to build what's winning from brewers who top just as much as they like to build for characters they like, probably more even lol. There is no shame to net decking. It just comes with the territory.
How do you carry Netrunner? Isn't that game long out of print?
Great video. Did a really good job of breaking it all down.
I hope Star Wars unlimited fixes their issues. It’s been really fun and got a good local community.
Lorcana I was excited for but swu is just more fun imo.
Always wanted to play flesh and blood wish we had more local players. But I’ve been playing blitz with my brother. It’s fun.
Learned about grand archive I bought a bunch of intro decks.
Been learning with my brother. I like it. Really hoping it catches on.
Kinda been getting back into magic. Finished a standard deck. Played a 4 foundation pre releases.
I just wish wizards of the coast could become an independent game and leave hasbro.
I think Magic has a big growth coming. The video this Thursday is all about Magic.
SWU has attracted all the competitive players from our other TCG's. Magic modern, pioneer, and standard are now dead in our region and SWU has completely replaced them. Face to Face games Canada now share's their tour promotion image with SWU. Commander is untouched, but curiosities about Twin Suns is there, although I'm unsure it will have the same appeal. Lorcana is in a strange place, the community isn't growing at all, and nobody is leaving it however at least half the player base is also playing SWU and OnePiece now. Altered product can more or less be sent for PSA grading at this point it's so untouched by the community.
Although MtG is the current winner of our store both in play and purchase wise, the business model is essentially "attracting new players faster than the veterans can quit." Commander pods for enfranchised players are becoming miserable experiences due to slowplay and having to teach at least 1 person at the table. Our store has been doing well on MtG singles from these enfranchised players quitting en masse.
Solid take. Thanks
100% perfect analysis of the TCG market. YGO does not know where to go. powercreep....and if ALtered does not launch the marketplace asap, it's doomed in the US. period
Thanks so much. Let's hope for everyone they get that marketplace up.
always great to hear from ya Travis
also @CrushCards i see y'all with the editing. Top Notch as always
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Chick Magnet is the one better than the others right?
I do like their Smoky Chick sandwich. :)
Are people playing Sorcery, or are they just collecting and investing?
Both. It’s hard to tell if it’s one over the other right now as we don’t have player numbers. My experience is that you can’t have one without the other. If I look at the trajectory of Meta Zoo that speaks loudly to that.
It was a weird time in the world. We sold a good chunk of those cards but no one played the game in store ever.
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I'm not seeing the prices you're talking about with Star Wars Unlimited. There are several non hyperspace or spotlight cards selling for more than $20 on TCGplayer.
Prices will shift in the marketplace. Specifically early after release. At the time of the video the prices I had talked about were what was happening in the market. I think I commented on another poster that put forth the same thing. At the time I filmed this there was only one card.
Altered is super fun. Give it a try peeps.
Altered is a very fun game.
Tried it, it plays like a bored game, mispelling intended.
@ Sorry to hear that. I have that issue with Magic. Its not for me but i see why people enjoy it.
Any word on Vanguard?
We stopped carrying Vanguard a few years ago. I couldn't speak intelligently about the game.
@ Sad to hear
@@definitelynotmany4972 We carried the game for quite a while and ran tournaments in store until fairly recently. There was no money for the store to be made. The group that played in the store would put their money together and buy cases from another vendor for near cost. The only revenue the game was generating was tournament entry. To stay in business we need to make profit. If the company doesn't care about their supply and the players don't want to buy product from me there's not much I can do unfortunately.
I’m a BIG fan of union arena
We'll see how it goes. I'm happy thus far with the performance of the game in my store.
Video needs timestamps
Bushiroad wasting Shadowverse will never not annoy me. That game is excellent but no one knows it exists.
I played set 1 and 2 but quit when the horse girl set came out. Doo doo. Embarrassing
The game itself is well it’s just how they are managing supply. There’s a challenge in the production of a card that often times in the need for scale to make pricing work they end up overprinting product. The number of card games Bushiroad has done that with is everyone in history. It’s a solid game and we have a great community it’s just not viable for most retailers because of the supply management.
Shadowverse has gotten far more advertising and push then Weiss... count yourself lucky you got that much lol.
@@TheKaijudist , Funny cause I actually went out and bought some of the Uma product since I'm a fan.
I'm not surprised Flesh and Blood has dropped off. After three sets in a row where I didn't want a single card in the set I had to bow out. It seems like the local scene for the game has also dropped off.
It was a fear I had when the sets started to become more focused on a smaller parts of the game universe.
Where is your locals? Our scene in Sacramento gets 15+ on Wednesday nights
I think that Flesh and Blood isn’t well designed anymore for casual players. For once they should kept selling singular Blitz Decks and not these playmat boxes that have 3 or 4 blitz decks inside. And Armory Decks are too expensive if you compare them with other tcg deck products. Even booster packs aren’t much better because the sets after history pack 2 are too specialized for individual classes. Just imagine you start your FAB journey by going into a LGS and buy one or two starter decks, they’re probably from HVY, HP1, or Outsiders, because they’re the newest singular blitz decks and after a few weeks you decide to buy some random booster packs in a LGS because you want to bring new wind into your Rhinar Blitz Deck. How big is the possibility you get something for your Deck? Pretty low because the newest pack that synergies with your deck is I think from the third newest set. I love flesh and blood, but nowadays if you’re a casual player it’s really hard to have fun with the random products that are on the lgs shelf except if you play all classes. Of course you can order the right products but this is only possible if you know what classes are in the sets and you can’t buy the new cards as singular blitz decks.
For example every time I wanted to play a tcg casually as kid or nowadays as an adult I only bought tcg Decks because I had and have a quantity over quality mindset because I want to play different decks and not just one or two good decks and I don’t like the feeling of wasting money when you buy a bad pack. And I think half of all the casual players in the tcg sphere have a similar mindset.
I think my journey with fab would had been very short if I wanted to stay being a casual player but thank god I started to play it more competitively because it’s one hell of a blast to play it like that. Btw if a player only buys singles this player isn’t a casual player in my book, I mean if you buy singles you probably have a deck list that you’re testing and refining on an online client.
And one thing I want to add is, if sellers don’t want to display those products because the consumers are mostly just single and playset sellers who only orders these products, then the game won’t get shelf exposure. So if you stumble upon flesh and blood you only do it through the Internet and not through irl stores.
As someone looking to start playing flesh and blood I find armory decks much more appealing over blitz decks. An armory deck gets used in the most played format, blitz decks seem useless after you've learned how to play the game. The armory decks sell for the same price as commander precons, I don't see how they are too expensive.
@ I agree to your first point that they are more appealing. But the price is still very steep if you look at it from a casual perspective. I mean in Europe Pokemon and Yugioh Decks are around 8 to 16 Euros. And I know they’re more marketed at kids, the cards are worse from a competitive point of view, and YGO Decks only have 40 cards but casuals don’t necessarily look for competitive cards, often they just want to have a deck or several decks that they can bring to a kitchen table or a playground setting. And even when we don’t look at the pure casual experience, but more so at the semi professional level, the armory equivalent in ygo (buying 3 modern yugioh structure decks) is “just” 24€, about as strong as a armory deck, and have 120 pieces of cardboard. I’m not well informed about the product lines of mtg, so I can’t explain why their numbers are that much better than the ones from fab even though their price points seem similar to each other. What would your explanation be why flesh and blood had a loss in sales? A genuine question.
@Rockleefan3 is the loss in sales global or regional? From a live play and tournament perspective, FAB seems to be doing well. From a rip packs perspective, FAB seems to have stalled out and doesn't have much momentum there. I know the Japan release has gone well but that could be covering other areas softening. I'm also curious how seasonal FAB could be over time. For a game focused on in person play, I would expect a downturn as the weather turns to crap. Combine that with a lack of people just ripping packs and FAB wouldn't look great in some regions.
I live in Portland Oregon, it seems pretty strong here.
Collectibility closes smaller stores out of the market...
I'm not sure I follow. If what you are saying is that they get a smaller allocation than big stores that might be true and is typically tied to their cash flow or available finances. Now if the value of the boxes they are buying increases the revenue they would typically generate from the same box it should help build their cash reserves and give them a better ability to be able to buy more moving forward.
Man you can tell this list is really skewed against any anime based game that isnt one piece. Weiss, Union Arena, Grand Archive are all huge sellers in our area and shops cant keep the stuff in stock.
The list is skewed based on my sales in store. I talk about that in the opening.
Elestrals!
Nah, bro, you're so wrong about you. He'll have in the eternal format.I don't want it to be magic.But that's what makes you feel you feel if it did that?I promise you the game would die. The whole point of view goes to have the vast knowledge of the last twenty five years, not the vast knowledge of the last two....