Great video! I like how you present a lot of ideas and you're not dogmatic about which path the company should take, cuz ultimately they will decide what works best for them logistically and financially. Very insightful ideas!
I envision a couple of ways they might approach reprints, if they were inclined to do so: 1. Crossover - instead of putting more 'terrains/domains' in these products, reserve like 16-20 spots for reprints, giving us like 4-5 playsets of historically staples. It could even revolve around a theme targeting specific old sets. For example, this year's crossover could target staples from the OG box, for example: -4x Mantis -4x Iceman -4x Think Again -4x Iron Man *Alternatively, crossover could become a 100 card yearly event, focusing half on reprints on half on typical crossover stuff. 2. "Masters sets" - in the spirit of MTG masters, just release a 200 card set that targets important reprints that are hard to find, but do it in an LCG style obviously. I would recommend targeting reprints from the Marvel Base set through Shield VS Hydra and give us the following: -team locations -2 main characters from each set, preferably ones that have seen competetive play or are fan favorites -staple supporting characters -staple generic plot twists/equipment. *I would avoid team plot twists/equipment because without access to the full team they would be hard to run successfully in a deck **If there's a licensing problem with Fox, I would make a "Fox Masters" set that only includes key Alien/Predator/X-files/Buffy reprints Just a couple ideas, of course they be flawed ideas, but just thought I'd contribute and keep the discussion going.
These are good ideas, especially Crossover boxes. I still think Fox props and Photographic cards are a legal sticking point. Disney may own Alien and Predator, but they still won’t let Upper Deck put them both in the same box.
they need a standard or expanded format like magic that way things will rotate and maybe hero or villian booster packs so some old things could get support too.
Regarding the spider set going out of print, i don't know why they'd lie about it; likely they did go out of print but are not high in demand sets and so there may still be lots of supply. Whereaa the power level of certain cards in sets like legacy and predators is much higher and therefore makes it much more likely for dedicated players to buy multiple copies. On the other hand, I don't think most of us so we needed to have a bunch of copies of spider friends lying around.
I went back and checked recently, and Spider-Friends is actually no longer in their web shop (the other two in the arc still are) for whatever that’s worth. I don’t think Upper Deck lied, but maybe they were mistaken or over-eager, or maybe they just follow a company-side metric that means little to the real-world availability of actual consumers.
Great video! I like how you present a lot of ideas and you're not dogmatic about which path the company should take, cuz ultimately they will decide what works best for them logistically and financially. Very insightful ideas!
I envision a couple of ways they might approach reprints, if they were inclined to do so:
1. Crossover - instead of putting more 'terrains/domains' in these products, reserve like 16-20 spots for reprints, giving us like 4-5 playsets of historically staples. It could even revolve around a theme targeting specific old sets. For example, this year's crossover could target staples from the OG box, for example:
-4x Mantis
-4x Iceman
-4x Think Again
-4x Iron Man
*Alternatively, crossover could become a 100 card yearly event, focusing half on reprints on half on typical crossover stuff.
2. "Masters sets" - in the spirit of MTG masters, just release a 200 card set that targets important reprints that are hard to find, but do it in an LCG style obviously. I would recommend targeting reprints from the Marvel Base set through Shield VS Hydra and give us the following:
-team locations
-2 main characters from each set, preferably ones that have seen competetive play or are fan favorites
-staple supporting characters
-staple generic plot twists/equipment.
*I would avoid team plot twists/equipment because without access to the full team they would be hard to run successfully in a deck
**If there's a licensing problem with Fox, I would make a "Fox Masters" set that only includes key Alien/Predator/X-files/Buffy reprints
Just a couple ideas, of course they be flawed ideas, but just thought I'd contribute and keep the discussion going.
These are good ideas, especially Crossover boxes. I still think Fox props and Photographic cards are a legal sticking point. Disney may own Alien and Predator, but they still won’t let Upper Deck put them both in the same box.
they need a standard or expanded format like magic that way things will rotate and maybe hero or villian booster packs so some old things could get support too.
Regarding the spider set going out of print, i don't know why they'd lie about it; likely they did go out of print but are not high in demand sets and so there may still be lots of supply. Whereaa the power level of certain cards in sets like legacy and predators is much higher and therefore makes it much more likely for dedicated players to buy multiple copies. On the other hand, I don't think most of us so we needed to have a bunch of copies of spider friends lying around.
I went back and checked recently, and Spider-Friends is actually no longer in their web shop (the other two in the arc still are) for whatever that’s worth. I don’t think Upper Deck lied, but maybe they were mistaken or over-eager, or maybe they just follow a company-side metric that means little to the real-world availability of actual consumers.
Just have upper deck release some of these in FA or foil as promos in op kits
That would help somewhat, but there are still issues with expired IP rights, namely for non-Marvel cards.
@Justin McDowell yeah that's right or if they do that they can change the art to a IP they already have might not make sense but could work