For the second time in a month, images of trashed Magic the Gathering cards have found their way onto reddit. What is going on here, Wizards of the Coast? Are they dumping cards after being called out for overproducing cards?
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All that work you guys put into recycling when you should really look into the companies that are in charge of dealing with the recycling. Most of what you “recycle” just gets thrown in a shipping container and dumped off in some 3rd world country
Who would have guessed, when you alienize your fanbase your products end in a predictable place.
its clearly being done by the manufacturer, it would be a far more drastic action for a retailer to do it, because they've paid for the cards. trade price, but still.
for the manufacturer of course, they only cost pennies to make
Need coffe here too
This is a plot to deliberately put these companies out of business so they'll stop producing plastic garbage for climate change activism.
Square Exix was dumping steel book editions of Forspoken
what a waste! give me those cards, i cut up old MTG art to make D&D tokens.
Hasbro 1923-2024. We can only hope!
I used to drop thousands on every MTG release. Haven't bought a wizards product in about 10 years.
all this "is fo the env" is just for greedy co.s to take advantage of foos who don't know better
May be if they just didn't flood the market with a product every month and a half in a period of economic struggle, things like these could be avoided.
Alas, papà Hasbro needs it's golden crutch to not fall down the bankruptcy stairs.
The same HASBRO that has eliminated clear plastic from their packaging to be more eco-friendly…
Due to the high probability of finding shiny cards in packs nowadays, I don't think mtg would be recycled, unless one wanted to go through the trouble of opening every pack, which, if you're trashing them, is an incredible waste of time/money.
that's gonna need a lot of adhesive tape I think.
I started playing MtG back in 1994. Yes, I still have all my cards. When Hasbro bought WotC shortly after WotC bought TSR, (was somewhere around 1999 iirc), we all knew what was about to happen. First thing, they jacked up the prices. Then they greatly increased the release pace, with a simultaneous drop in card quality. And out popped Mercadian Masques! Blurgh…. Few years later we got the new card-type, planeswalkers, which broke the game. Haven't played seriously since. I did give it a go once recently. Was hilarious. I curb-stomped an entire store cold with a pre-packaged deck. Power-creep is real.
So when is Greta Thunberg going to snarl "How dare you!" at the wasteful gaming industry?
Race-swapping established characters is diversity black-facing of thosse characters for no real good reason now other than to stick it in the face of the original given race of that established character. At one time it was creative emulation of a loved character by individual fans but this is now about destruction and division.
Good thing I am done interacting with the MTG market as I am happy with the decks I have and don't have time to make more. Sounds like a collapse is possible.
Annette O'Toole, one of my earliest crushes.
This could be a movie. Hear me out:
They thought it was just a game.about thought knew about the great evil looming around the world.
OcGirl: Can you believe it? All of those cards being destroyed?
News Reporter: Look at all of this! Its not "Tragic, the Entrapment, Pokeurmom, Whoogets: (shocked by taser) Ooh!, There also, Datainyoumomma, the Reprepeating.
Badguyboss, Destroy them, all of them, especially the rare cups. The more we destroy, the weaker people will beco…..(weird cute and adorable) WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!
Cute creature, I know the other singing thing, boss. Ive seen it, in my reality.daughter too.
Cute creature, Lets get ready to leave. But just a reminder, boss.We Gotta Cath Then ALL!
plastic number, looks like a recycle
old booster boxes, still hold value
YuGiOh seeing this with his 3 online games and 4 different game modes : I don't need exodia to kill you I'm just skiping my turn by the way let's release a stronger version of a old card who many want to obtain but is hard to find and is weak today so you gain the hard card you want easier without turning the old card obsolete
Damn 1st D&D NOW MAGIC THE GATHERING. Just goes to show what happens when you spread modern day culture to anything.
I'm not sure Bank of America is really qualified to determine what exactly is ruining a brand.
Bank of America certainly knows about finances, but brands and fandom is not their forte.
Hasbro went to windowless boxes to hide the poor quality trash they want to pass off as action figures.
All Hasbro has to do is:
Use window bexes.
Use high quality plastic.
Use good distribution.
Use low prices.
getting some money is better than getting no money.
Why bother doing business with a company that is going to lie about what decisions they are making and why.
Clearly it's not wizard if pokemon is to be found, and pokemon doesn't have problems with moving merch, specially because when a set doesn't sell in America, is shipper towards secondary markets (latin America and Europe, that has their own language versions BUT also collect English cards). There's more going on here.
I got another name for the fantastic 4, the doo doo duo 😆
Race swap of LOTR characters is incredibly stupid !
The thing about those "missing windows" is that the material known as "Cellophane" is from plant fibre and if it isn't printed on, or other modifications are made to it you can compost it.
So, yeah they (Hasbro) are crapping all ofer you and tell you it's snowing and then raining, even when it's first brown, then yellow!
You should make a comic book out of the Shit Five with members being Kneon, Geeky Sparkles, Squid King, Pinky Boo and your dog (can’t remember his name). It can be something like Scooby Doo where all five of you solve mysteries, only you unmask lies instead of monsters with the famous line, “and the lie behind this mask is…” and Mickey Mouse or the Animaniacs for Warner Bros are behind the mask.
I kid, but the idea sounds hilarious.
They are just trying to make them rare to increase the value or most likely, they can't sell them. Hence all those cards being thrown out
The total collapse of the woke economy is simply awesome.
Saying that they over printed is reasonably accurate.
When bash on & drive away your bread & butter customers you end up with stock that can't be sold because no one want's to buy it
"People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing—that's why we recommend it daily." —Zig Ziglar
Not Lord of the rings
So where are the complaints of polluting the cards should be recycled.
Where’s Greta?
The Number 4 = DEATH over there.
How do I tell you to stop buying new cards without telling you to stop buy new cards? Hasbro is killing the brand.
They are mixing all kinds of plastic and other stuff in bulk with the paper recycle. That should result in WoTC/Hasbro getting a massive fine since that will cause a ton of problems with the recycle centers.
They really should just take a break from the cards.
If you want bad quality, check out GI Joe Classified.
Amazing how you have these DISGUSTING Hypocritical SJWS claim to hate injustice, pollutions, and even claim to be anti Big businesses. When they LITERALLY support the opposite! They kiss disgusting megacorps like Hasbro and Disney, say nothing but sexual and racial Slurs, and support companies that leaves the biggest amount of Carbon Foot print.
Welcome to Dismal 2023!🙄
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Didn't Magic recently release a LotR themed set featuring a bunch of race-swapped characters? While stunning and brave, it's not something anyone aside from the creators actually wanted.
It turns out to remain a business, you need customers.