The Reserved List is Cracked.

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[saimaidar]

I am just burned out by the sheer number of new sets.

[Ragnarok]

Topps destroyed the original model of baseball cards in the 80s and 90s but the 1950s topps base sets are still nearly priceless. There will never be another Alpha / Beta and those cards will never lose their value entirely.

[Kreiger]

Rudy should make an OF called "Rudy's Crack, " and it's just videos of him cracking packs

[thebooherstory]

"Does Hasboro have the ability to reduce the value of Magic to zero?" Yes.

[cheo]

I don’t buy or play magic, i just watch Rudy videos

[lostingreenbay]

I see new Rudy video, I click watch. It’s that simple.

[Xarviz]

As someone who spend 70.000$ form 2016 Eldritch Moon to Throne of Eldraine and tons in Legacy Decks. I can say the reserved List was untouchable before Wizards farted Magic 30th.

Now it lost its special thing. They showed its not as untouchable anymore.

[wassup]

I don’t know what necessarily happened during the sports card collapse of the 1990s. But I FEEL that Hasbro is taking MTG right to the edge of whatever the 1990s card collapse is.

[WormxHarvester]

The old cards will still be rare and desirable even if reprinted. People will want the old ones to collect or bling out their decks. The reserve list does nothing now except stroke investors ego and gatekeep cards from the majority of players.

[fsmoura]

Rudy: _"It's Magic 30 time!!"_

Timmy: _"No! Rudy! No!!"_

[Fab_Marvel_Miner]

No one is saying the reserve list is “going to zero”. But a lot of people are saying that Wizards breaking the spirit of its reserve list promise will put downward pressure on prices now, and likely limit growth in perpetuity going forward.

[LowinBayrod]

I'm in the "artwork reserve list card" opinion, but with 5+ versions of every new cards that sounds hardly feasible now.

[cholohd]

The worst thing a company can do is break the illusion. The illusion of continue worth vs trouble. The illusion of caring for the customers. Like i used to play one of those early korean mmorpgs. Started spending like $5 a month. Later i bought into the VIP items & in the end i spend a good $200+ a month. Game was getting old & half my friends had left the game. Then one day i bought 10x cheapo something & only saw 9 in my cluttered inbox. Items had to be manually delivered by the devs, so i politely send a customer ticket if they had missed one. Got a rude answer. I probably misscalculted that is true. But the answer broke the illusion. Made me ask myself why i was even there. I stopped playing the game instantly. The worst thing a company can do is breaking the "the normal" pace/monotony of their spending customers. That is alos why everyone is trying to get you to sign up for subscriptions.

[Timlin]

I feel like so many people are trying to collect magic now and that's why Wizards is messing up so much. It used to be that Magic was a game to play. Build a standard deck, run drafts, then play commander or modern with all the rotated cards plus some newer staples. But when COVID hit everyone started collecting for money and so Wizards printed collector boosters, Wizards printed Secret Lairs, etc. Wizards needs to go back to printing 4-5 standard sets a year plus one masters, commander or modern set. Collector boosters and set boosters need to either dissappear or have their concepts be merged with draft boosters to create a booster that has cool art cards and a chance to hit value without needing to pay an extreme premium (like how double masters has 2 rares instead of one)

[ricardojnobre]

"I bought a few..." This, in Rudy terms, means one bathroom full of Secret Lairs

[Meatwadsan]

I think many people are just trying to anticipate what may happen when Wizards releases the rest of their 30th Anniversary boxes into the wild.

[sillyb]

I agree, they should expand the reserve list. This will also force wotc to design new stuff and not depend on the secondary market for making a good new product. This will up the value of newer products and I think will increase sales of things to come

[Quibblies]

It's like all the sudden, they're viewing them as easily reprintable cardboard! I am shocked by this. It's also a big mystery why people are losing interest in a game they cannot physically play with anyone. Again, I am shocked by this. It's almost like investing millions of dollars into a highly illiquid assets puts you at the whims of all kinds of factors. Again, I don't know how anyone could have predicted this. Also, it's almost like the boomers and millennials are a finite resource because wizards is failing spectacularly at bringing in new players. Again, I am shocked by this.

[boris]

i love when rudy just goes on tiny tangets in the videos

[pawpatrolnews]

That's *Mr.* Mark Bottomwater to you, Rudy!