Just catching up on your videos! I'm always a fan of non-scripted talk throughs of what's happening with the game. Agree that 2025 is going to be a defining year for Sorcery! Excited to see what's in store. Love the Blockbuster sign!
I think simply from a rarity standpoint that Alpha is much more collectible than beta. There is much more beta printed with more on the way. I think alpha foil prices will improve over time. I think alpha foils in the past may have been a bit over priced though and the recent changes in the market have been a price correction.
Couldn't disagree more. Precons are always needed, they could've used beta + AL cards for a new precon product for new players, that is the focus is it not?
AL has turned the game into a aggro charge fest. I think it's eye appeal and draft experience has given this set a honeymoon lasting longer than deserved and will be looked upon as a less favorable set down the road.
Does Sorcery have the bad apple investors/flippers? Sure that's in every TCG. But they've already made their money a year ago or in the first few weeks after AL released. They aren't the mad ones, lol. And they'll be back during the release of dragonlords/gothic. No the mad ones are coming from what makes up the majority of a TCGs community, the player who also collects. Why alpha being so swingy isn't a mystery to those who don't look past the frustrations of individuals who've spent a lot of their resources/time in a non-collectable game.
With precons announced for the upcoming gothic set I think EC has made the right choice in skipping AL for precons. AL was built more towards sealed play and Gothic so far seems to be a bigger core type set.
I do agree a bit here. AL did speed up the game a touch even with the decks moving to 50/30. Maybe the game will slow down a bit when it finally is bumped up to 60/40.
@@EndFazeGames I mean not having a pick-up-n-play product in stock on shelves for new players is a major oversight. Not just major, a complete amateur mistake that should never have happened. This was the ENTIRE argument for another beta set reprint (which has done some amount of damage to trust, we don't even know how much yet), have a product in stock for those joining the game. A precon product is needed at all times for growth. People need a cheap on-ramp path to quickly try out the game. Does not matter if the current set happens to have a non-precon focused gameplay... or whatever... it should not matter, add in some base set cards to make it work, etc. They would have been better off reprinting the beta precons at this point rather than letting their only new player product skyrocket in price...
Great video!!
great video - awesome summary
Just catching up on your videos! I'm always a fan of non-scripted talk throughs of what's happening with the game. Agree that 2025 is going to be a defining year for Sorcery! Excited to see what's in store. Love the Blockbuster sign!
Thanks a ton!!!!
Has a Water Castle print but no Curio.....and is that Taylor Swift behind you?
The curios still elude me😂😂😂😂 and yes that is the infamous Taylor Swift book in the background.
beta is way more collectible than alpha. people will always default to beta foils.
I think simply from a rarity standpoint that Alpha is much more collectible than beta. There is much more beta printed with more on the way. I think alpha foil prices will improve over time. I think alpha foils in the past may have been a bit over priced though and the recent changes in the market have been a price correction.
Couldn't disagree more. Precons are always needed, they could've used beta + AL cards for a new precon product for new players, that is the focus is it not?
AL has turned the game into a aggro charge fest. I think it's eye appeal and draft experience has given this set a honeymoon lasting longer than deserved and will be looked upon as a less favorable set down the road.
Does Sorcery have the bad apple investors/flippers? Sure that's in every TCG. But they've already made their money a year ago or in the first few weeks after AL released. They aren't the mad ones, lol. And they'll be back during the release of dragonlords/gothic.
No the mad ones are coming from what makes up the majority of a TCGs community, the player who also collects. Why alpha being so swingy isn't a mystery to those who don't look past the frustrations of individuals who've spent a lot of their resources/time in a non-collectable game.
With precons announced for the upcoming gothic set I think EC has made the right choice in skipping AL for precons. AL was built more towards sealed play and Gothic so far seems to be a bigger core type set.
I do agree a bit here. AL did speed up the game a touch even with the decks moving to 50/30. Maybe the game will slow down a bit when it finally is bumped up to 60/40.
@@EndFazeGames I mean not having a pick-up-n-play product in stock on shelves for new players is a major oversight. Not just major, a complete amateur mistake that should never have happened. This was the ENTIRE argument for another beta set reprint (which has done some amount of damage to trust, we don't even know how much yet), have a product in stock for those joining the game.
A precon product is needed at all times for growth. People need a cheap on-ramp path to quickly try out the game. Does not matter if the current set happens to have a non-precon focused gameplay... or whatever... it should not matter, add in some base set cards to make it work, etc.
They would have been better off reprinting the beta precons at this point rather than letting their only new player product skyrocket in price...