"We had to create an experience for fans new and old that would be worthy of three decades of the original trading card game." doesn't fit a 250 dollar pack of non-cards.
If it was real very rare cards, there would be upset but they could have made it work.
If it was non-cardlike collectibles, it would have been fine.
But to sell non-legal cards at such a high price is so much the opposite of the community celebration they were pushing for overall.
And the last time they sold something like this, it was the entire set and it wasn't expensive. Even if that was a long time ago.
And wizards constantly pretends that all their pieces of cardboard have similar value, so it's extra obnoxious whenever they price something like this. But this one in particular is an order of magnitude worse even if we forget for a second they aren't legal cards.
And various ways of playing the game are actively dying because it's so hard to get cards like this, which just adds salt.
If it was real very rare cards, there would be upset but they could have made it work.
If it was non-cardlike collectibles, it would have been fine.
But to sell non-legal cards at such a high price is so much the opposite of the community celebration they were pushing for overall.
And the last time they sold something like this, it was the entire set and it wasn't expensive. Even if that was a long time ago.
And wizards constantly pretends that all their pieces of cardboard have similar value, so it's extra obnoxious whenever they price something like this. But this one in particular is an order of magnitude worse even if we forget for a second they aren't legal cards.
And various ways of playing the game are actively dying because it's so hard to get cards like this, which just adds salt.