Today in Bizarre, Unfortunate Coincidences
Apr. 4th, 2020 01:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
writerkitMagic: The Gathering has a new card in the upcoming set called "Spacegodzilla, Death Corona".
This was, of course, printed months ago before any of this happened and one of the things they've been doing since they realized the scope of coronavirus is frantically making sure it's removed from any reprintings and making sure it's reprogrammed on the digital versions of Magic. Unfortunately, the first printing was printed ages ago and they can't get rid of it. Several people online have been observing that this means the Spacegodzilla card is immediately going to become a very rare, very expensive collector's item, which is probably true.
Despite the serious subject matter I am amused by the presence of an article on Wizards of the Coast's official Magic website with a headline "Statement on Spacegodzilla."
I am annoyed about entire Godzilla crossover series for reasons having nothing to do with the coronavirus; the whole concept of this sort of crossover feels much more silver border and should never have appeared in black border.
(This has not been a good year for Wizards of the Coast's decision tree; they're really proving they don't care at *all* what the community thinks as long as they can get people to spend more in the short term. Which is detrimental to the long-term; I was very invested and I'm getting progressively less so as I get more tired and more certain each new announcement is going to involve yet another terrible decision-- after Judge Academy, Chandra, Secret Lairs, and now the existence of the Godzilla series, I'm just... not especially excited about Ikoria, or what comes next.)
This was, of course, printed months ago before any of this happened and one of the things they've been doing since they realized the scope of coronavirus is frantically making sure it's removed from any reprintings and making sure it's reprogrammed on the digital versions of Magic. Unfortunately, the first printing was printed ages ago and they can't get rid of it. Several people online have been observing that this means the Spacegodzilla card is immediately going to become a very rare, very expensive collector's item, which is probably true.
Despite the serious subject matter I am amused by the presence of an article on Wizards of the Coast's official Magic website with a headline "Statement on Spacegodzilla."
I am annoyed about entire Godzilla crossover series for reasons having nothing to do with the coronavirus; the whole concept of this sort of crossover feels much more silver border and should never have appeared in black border.
(This has not been a good year for Wizards of the Coast's decision tree; they're really proving they don't care at *all* what the community thinks as long as they can get people to spend more in the short term. Which is detrimental to the long-term; I was very invested and I'm getting progressively less so as I get more tired and more certain each new announcement is going to involve yet another terrible decision-- after Judge Academy, Chandra, Secret Lairs, and now the existence of the Godzilla series, I'm just... not especially excited about Ikoria, or what comes next.)
