I did a little math and counted a number of available cards during respective periods:
Basic - 133 cards and Classic - 239 cards - always available (372 cards); next points contain only expansion cards
Pre-standard - 361 cards
Kraken Year - 519 cards
Mammoth Year - 581 cards for now and ~130 later this year (so ~700)
Next ??? Year - ~400 cards from previous expansions and next ~400 over year so ~800
So 800 (+372 Basic and Classic) cards available. Many of them are fillers or rare techs or remains from old, dead archetypes. Do you guys think they release too many cards? I think they should focus on quality instead quantity and give us 60-70 well designed cards every expansion (especially with this expanion rate). I afraid HS will be overfilled with cards in short time.
The opposite is almost certainly the case - many IRL games release more than twice as many cards every year as HS. At the current pace of release, by the end of next year the Wild format will finally have as many cards as the Standard format in MtG, nearly five years after the release of the game. There are lots of obvious implications that the small card pool has with regards to both deck and ladder diversity, "staleness" of the meta-game, and related issues. The fact that the small card pool is split ten different ways compounds each of those issues further.
A lot of cards, yet we see almost the cards in every deck (patches, tar creeper, bonemare, cobalt scalebane etc). Blizzard need to step up and stop with the filler cards. Gives us a lot of varied, good cards so we can enable more decks than the 3-4 we see on ladder right now.
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I did a little math and counted a number of available cards during respective periods:
So 800 (+372 Basic and Classic) cards available. Many of them are fillers or rare techs or remains from old, dead archetypes. Do you guys think they release too many cards? I think they should focus on quality instead quantity and give us 60-70 well designed cards every expansion (especially with this expanion rate). I afraid HS will be overfilled with cards in short time.
The opposite is almost certainly the case - many IRL games release more than twice as many cards every year as HS. At the current pace of release, by the end of next year the Wild format will finally have as many cards as the Standard format in MtG, nearly five years after the release of the game. There are lots of obvious implications that the small card pool has with regards to both deck and ladder diversity, "staleness" of the meta-game, and related issues. The fact that the small card pool is split ten different ways compounds each of those issues further.
A lot of cards, yet we see almost the cards in every deck (patches, tar creeper, bonemare, cobalt scalebane etc). Blizzard need to step up and stop with the filler cards. Gives us a lot of varied, good cards so we can enable more decks than the 3-4 we see on ladder right now.
The pioneers used to ride these babies for miles