Many aspects that players take for granted didn’t exist at the game’s start. Just as Magic’s metagame keeps changing, so, too, has the game itself. You have to understand that this transition has been ongoing from Magic’s start. In order to get from A to B, at some point we need to make changes. In short, there is a discrepancy between where Magic started and where we believe Magic should be. A rare card like Black Lotus or Ancestral Recall was balanced by the fact that at most only one would exist between the entire play group. He expected people to spend twenty to fifty dollars on it. But who could have anticipated what Magic would become? Richard was designing a "little game" to be played in between role-playing sessions. No one is more responsible for that than Richard. I believe Magic is the greatest game every created. This is in no way a strike against Richard. The other important point I feel I need to stress is that how we see Magic now and in the future is not how Richard Garfield envisioned the game when he first created it. This means that we see change in a very big-picture sort of way. And fifty years after that, the hundredth. We make our decisions assuming that forty years from now we’ll be celebrating Magic’s fiftieth anniversary. We think of Magic as a classic game like Monopoly® or SCRABBLE®. To answer this question I think I need to start by explaining how we see Magic here at Wizards of the Coast. Question #1: Why? Why? For Love of God, Why?!! My goal today is to answer these questions and give you a better understanding of our thought processes. I thought I’d organize this column by answering the most common questions I’ve been receiving in my mail and have read on various web sites and bulletin boards. Many of you have questions you want answered. Others are confused as to why the change is happening. Some of you are very upset by this change. Let me start today’s column by saying that your voices haven’t been falling on deaf ears. But as I sat down to write it, I realized that what all of you wanted was to hear me talk about the new card frames. Today’s column was going to be about something else.
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