It’s kind of a weird question though right? Like I have a general disdain for UB, but I also don’t want a new format, buuut 10/10 times I’d prefer to join a pod where no one was playing with those cards so idk.
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This comes from the same market research that showed "the vast majority of tabletop Magic players (over 75%) don’t know what a planewalker is, ... don’t know what a format is". Take that for what it's worth. I personally cannot believe it, but if that's what we're dealing with it almost doesn't matter what question they ask, they'll get whatever answer they're looking for.
https://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/698478689008189440/a-mistake-folks-in-the-hyper-enfranchised
First thought I had when I read this was "I don't remember being asked this question". This feels like when a game or small business schmoozes a tabloid to give them a "best of" award. They are building echo chambers around their business to justify profitable decisions.
Isn't that Standard?
The question was about adding universes beyond-less versions of formats that currently allow for universes beyond cards (such as modern and commander)
This makes sense. Those formats barely fire at any shops near me, splintering them into even more niche formats would be terrible
Standard does get crossover sets (AFR, MKM, even the IKO Godzilla styles), but I don't think people are really asking for standard without these sets, only the eternal formats.
Edit: while IKO and MKM are technically in-universe and not really Universes Beyond, AFR was Universes Beyond in all but name. The reason it's not classified as such, as far as I can tell, is because WOTC also owns D&D. The set itself was not in-universe and did not feature any characters of MTG.
Yeah, I mean, I play Standard for a variety of reasons, but "avoiding Universes Beyond cards" is definitely one of them.
I wonder how different the answer could be if they'd asked the question in a different way.
I'd like Modern better if it didn't have UB cards, but banning UB cards alone wouldn't be enough to get me to start playing Modern. So am I interested in a UB-free Modern? No, but that's not approval of the current state of affairs.