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MaRo answers why higher powered sets cost more (markrosewater.tumblr.com)
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Surprising level of transparency here when it's very easy to just ignore these kinds of questions, even if it's a bit roundabout.

"[W]e have to take into account numerous factors to make sure that boosters packs are equally desirable. One of the biggest factors is the overall average powerful level of the cards."

Translation: no one would (theoretically) buy "under-powered" Standard boosters if they were the same price as "high-powered" masters boosters. This doesn't really appreciate players who want to draft or want Standard cards (and would therefore buy Standard packs regardless) but I'm sure they have people there doing this all day every day.

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[–] Evu@mtgzone.com 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

There are some people in those comments who are not clear on how capitalism works. I'm not saying you have to like it, I certainly don't, but raising the price on more sought-after items until they have a sustainable number of buyers is pretty basic supply-and-demand.

Unrelated to the topic, am I the only one who's bothered by how Rosewater's blog has no styling to distinguish the question from the answer? I realize that I'm a web developer picking on someone who isn't, but it's been like this for years and I can't believe he hasn't worked out a solution by now.

[–] lovestha@mtgjudge.social 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@Evu @andrew it has styling for me

[–] Evu@mtgzone.com 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It does? I checked in Firefox and Brave and it doesn't in either one for me. But I guess if everyone else is seeing a difference, that would explain why he hasn't fixed it.

[–] Sandra@idiomdrottning.org 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

This is how it works:

  1. Go to the blog. No styling.
  2. Log in to tumblr 💔
  3. Go to the blog. Still no styling.
  4. Go to to your own dash.
  5. From there, click Maro's face.
  6. Styling!
  7. But then the next time you go to the blog, no styling. Until you repeat steps four through six.

For peeps who hate logging in to tumblr, probably better known as everyone, you can also use the feed: https://markrosewater.tumblr.com/rss

It has the questions as the title and the answers as the content.

[–] Evu@mtgzone.com 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Thanks for the explanation! As you may have guessed, I don't have a Tumblr account. Although as social media monoliths go, it actually seems like one of the better ones these days.

[–] Sandra@idiomdrottning.org 2 points 2 years ago

I'm super grateful for the federation to save us from the monolith 🫡

[–] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

It's weird that people always seems blind-sided by the presence of the profit motive when it shows up in the production and distribution of something they enjoy. I'm not saying it's good or rational, but something would have to be radically different about either WotC as an organization or the structure of the global economy for cards that are more desirable to not get increased pricing.

Blogatog isn't even close to how bad custom Tumblr styles can get in terms of usability. But the majority of users and I suspect MaRo himself access Tumblr through the app, so such concerns have been forgotten.