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That aside, I think that avoiding set releases 8-21 days before a MAJOR event (Masters, Nationals, Continentals, Worlds) would be a good rule of thumb. If new sets are always going to drop on Friday, then it's better to release them the Friday of a Major weekend rather than the week before. Or if you don't want to steal headlines, go with the week after.
Better that than ruining a major event because one person found the broken combo before the rest of the field has even had a real chance to look at the cards.
GooeyChewie wrote:First of all, anyone who is calling a Regional a major hasn't been paying attention for the last decade.monty42 wrote:You're saying that as if we don't have complete control over when a set is released. High level events rarely happen instantaneously. So it is completely in our own hands whether or not this worst case scenario will ever come into play.We release expansions pretty much as soon as possible, so we don't generally have much wiggle room to release them earlier. So the control we have would come in the form of delaying the expansions, which isn't exactly ideal. The non-legal week allows us to not delay as long and still not mess up a major event.
There's also the question how major is "major." If we're talking Regionals, there's a whole season with no good release dates.
That aside, I think that avoiding set releases 8-21 days before a MAJOR event (Masters, Nationals, Continentals, Worlds) would be a good rule of thumb. If new sets are always going to drop on Friday, then it's better to release them the Friday of a Major weekend rather than the week before. Or if you don't want to steal headlines, go with the week after.
Better that than ruining a major event because one person found the broken combo before the rest of the field has even had a real chance to look at the cards.
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