15 hours ago, Grimwalker said:What I sense from this is that the primary impetus is not a healthy game or a creative game or even a game which is friendly to people who don’t own all the cards. What I sense is an impulse to push back against the specter of rotation and to keep playing with the cards people already own.
There is certainly truth in what you write. I want to play with the cards I purchased.
For the most part, though, my impetus comes from wanting a format where it is not requisite that you possess the entire card catalog to play. I want to design a format where I, with my old set, can play against others with newer sets, and we can both compete and have fun. Was the game so terrible when it was just the Core+Genesis+Spin Cycle? I can't imagine it was so bad because lots of people got into the game at that time. Certainly there are cards that I'd want to see removed from the card pool for health and diversity reasons. Desperado and Jackson Howard are two that come to mind. But Do you think that ALL the cards are so wildly poor designs that two entire cycles should have never been printed? Are there cards rotating that are worth keeping in an extended card pool?