Next Steps in Revitalizing Standard: Play | WPN
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Today’s announcement is all about giving players—and stores—enticing events that they want to play in and run to give them something at the end of the rainbow for building up their Standard decks.

Wizards announced new efforts to promote Standard play that start next year. Some highlights:

  • Special promos for new weekly Standard events at LGSs
  • $75k Standard Open at MagicCon Chicago, which is “the first large, open field Standard tournament in quite some time”
  • Pro Tour Outlaws of Thunder Junction (second PT in 2024) will be Standard
  • Tasthesose
    4•9 months ago

    @calvinball @lovestha this is how it felt getting into magic in the late 90s working for two weeks pay to buy my first box - Ice Age - it was complete shit and I didn’t buy another box of magic for 20 years because of it. Talk about resentful - playing against people with amazing decks and I’m sitting on a box of hot dog water ice cubes. :)

    • @calvinballEnglish
      4•9 months ago

      I’m glad you learned early not to buy boxes then :D

      • Tasthesose
        2•9 months ago

        @calvinball it surely saved me oodles over time - I wasn’t tempted again successfully till the Lord of the Rings cards - the artists really did amazing jobs and I wanted to at least get this set while it’s around. :)