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I used to draft for a few weeks after each set release but nothing since March of the Machine has held my interest. I know a lot of people hated it but I still miss All Will be One draft. Short matches, little text, and all about when and what you swung. Did the prerelease for Murder and it felt like each card had a book on it and 6 different set mechanics to deal with.
Complexity creep is a problem in my opinion... yeah, some cards are fun and have to have quite a few words, but being able to play without reading and rereading is also nice. And keeping track of board state gets tiring
@UnPassive @MacedWindow to many old school players there are two big factors in what has changed:
* too many card variants, so you can't recognise cards by the art any more.
* too many cards being released each year. Heavily invested players used to be able to keep up with knowing the text of every card in standard. But there are more cards instandard now (all big sets) and standard legal cards are only a portion of new cards.
People didn't need to read every cardthat was played years ago, because they already knew most of them.