By now, everyone knows about the new three block standard and no core set. There seem to be some misconceptions about why this is happening. The official reason given by Wizards is that Standard gets stale because the third set doesn't ever do as well as the other two sets.
I just want to clarify in case anyone didn't understand what that means in "CEO of Wizards" speak. In CEO speak, it says, we'll sell more cards this way by making the cards you buy playable for a shorter time period thus increasing sales.
I'm not sure what will happen in the secondary card market, but knowing what I know about WOTC, I'd be willing to bet that they don't care. I even think the invention of the Modern format was part of this plan.
Players will certainly say they can't play if their cards rotate so quickly, WOTC has an answer.....You can play Modern! (doesn't that sound more credible than: "You can play Legacy!", I mean seriously, Legacy is super expensive and the deck price between Standard and Legacy is exponential, but Modern....hmmm.
Now, It could be that the popularity of Modern spurred the change in Standard by providing a popular format for players to go to because they can't afford the super fast rotating Standard.
I just want to point out one more thing. MaRo said they will need extra staff to "create more worlds" with two set blocks. I just want to point out that companies don't hire new people just because. The people need to be paid and they need to make more money to justify more employees..
Anyway, Just some food for thought.
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