How Do They Know?
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Posted on April 22, 2015, 9:50 a.m. by DarkMagician
I keep seeing people claim that X set was heavily opened while Y set wasn't opened very much at all. How do people know what sets were and which sets weren't opened very heavily (beyond the obvious ones such as Khans and Return to Ravnica).
Wizards have made statements before about how things like Future Sight was really poorly opened because it was catered towards established players and how their main market is casual players who are drawn in by the rich environments of Innistrad or Theros etc. A lot of it comes from twitter. Sometimes you can dig up old financial reports too.
April 22, 2015 10:14 a.m.
Also, sometimes it's simple deductions. For instance, it's easy to say that Theros was more heavily opened than Journey into Nyx because of the draft formats. We spent months opening triple Theros, months spent opening two more packs in Born of the Gods draft, and still one more pack being opened in Journey into Nyx block draft. That's more pack opened for a longer period of time than the one Journey into Nyx being opened for a single draft format strech.
April 22, 2015 10:15 a.m.
Epochalyptik says... #5
At least recently in the old three-set-per-block system, set prevalence had much to do with draft and sealed organization. First sets tended to be much more heavily opened because they comprised the lions share of the pack distribution during Limited events.
I'm unsure how older blocks were handled, so I'm hesitant to apply the model too far into the past.
April 22, 2015 10:16 a.m.
Future Sight was poorly opened? Well that explains a lot.
GlistenerAgent says... #2
Believe it or not, people have been playing Magic for a long time. Also, Google knows all.
April 22, 2015 10:01 a.m.