Force of Will needs a set like Magic's Return to Ravnica

The new frame sucks, man... it just does. If they change the frame back to Reiya I will flip and go nuts buying new sets. Right now, I am sticking to nostalgia pack cracks of Grimm/Alice/Lapis. I think those three first North American clusters have so much mojo going, even with all those mistakes (MOA no rulers, Reflect/Refrain, and so on).

I think Force of Will is at a stage where it has it's own dedicated community, however small, and it's less dependent of the ebbs and flows of the big three-meaning that players from the big three (Pokemon, Magic, Yugioh, in that order) don't have to dip into FOW in bad times to make FOW successful, enough people are doing that already.

The game still needs a Ravnica cluster, four sets that are a blow-out. It's still missing that. Ravnica has given Magic a huge popularity boost three times: (1) at the bottom of the 2008-9 recession (2) in 2012 with a HUGE influx of new players, and (3) after a terrible range of sets that sucked. Force of Will needs to learn from Ravnica. It just does.

Magic offers many lessons on what not to do, and a few really good ones on what to do. Alice Origins is in some ways a Ravnica play: game is in bad shape, go back to a popular cluster. But Alice Origins and Saga are not really doing what three Ravnicas have done for Magic. If that had been the case, this subrediit would be like three times bigger, maybe five times bigger. That will be one of the key signals that Force of Will has reached a new and higher plateau. I so want to see this happen.

Just as a point of reference, boxes for the second Ravnica block (Return to Ravnica, Gatecrash, Dragon's Maze), were printed into oblivion. RTR, the best set of the three, can still be had for $125 a box almost a decade after the sets were issued. It was overprinted beyond what anything in Force of Will has been. I remember seeing an eBay lot for 1000, yes, one thousand RTR booster boxes. The print run for RTR is probably more booster boxes than all of Force of Will combined to date. Wizards knew it could get away with printing pallets and palllets of RTR, and they ALL sold, every single one of them. That one set did it. Force of Will needs an RTR. It needs a set that will be reprinted six, seven times, and every batch will sell out.

Box Prices Grimm Alice and Lapis

 First number is from March 2017, second number is today. Not much has changed, with the exception of TAT, LEL, and RDE. A $140 TAT today would be a steal!

Grimm Cluster

1 Crimson Moon's Fairy Tale   $80 $60 

2 The Castle of Heaven and The Two Towers    $140 approx $400  

3 The Moon Priestess Returns    $70 $55

4 The Millennia of Ages    $35  $30

Alice Cluster

5 The Seven Kings of the Lands  $75 $90  

6 The Twilight Wanderer    $90 $90

7 The Moonlit Savior    $75 $60

8 Battle for Attoractia   $60  $35

Lapis Cluster

9 Curse of the Frozen Casket $90 $35 

10 Legacy Lost  $100  approx $300

11 Return of the Dragon Emperor $80 approx $200  

12 Echoes of the New World  $85 $70  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-E5nHiHmBzI

The Grimm-Alice-Lapis Megacube on YouTube

 I have continued to crack Force of Will packs through the years. I have cracked closed to 300 packs just in 2021. Here is the playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4fjHQoGTndU8YxMaltZnVzVVZLvM2wc1

Force of Will continues to need help

 I recently posted these points on the FOW Reddit:

"What I would like to see post Saga cluster

I will preface by stating that this is just my opinion and that I am only in and out of FOW to collect the cards, but I would like to play the game at my LGS once we are safely out of the worst of COVID. I really really really want FOW to be around ten years from now and played by at least ten times as many players, if not more.

Here is my wish list post Saga cluster:

1. Get back to the Reiya/New Valhalla frame. The new frame just isn't as attractive. The color line in the middle of the card is distracting and takes away from the card. The text box needs to be as small as possible to show off the beautiful artwork.

2. New lore with new characters. FOW needs to stop repeating itself. Bring in a whole new cast, then play out their interactions with the established characters in follow-on clusters. Maybe Ancient Egypt meets Fairy Tales. I know this is like Yugioh, but Ancient Egypt works great everywhere.

3. New artwork that takes us back to top notch quality, like in ADK Misty Dragon Spirit for all new Secret Rares.

4. Take a page from mark Rosewater's six year plan of clusters in one bang. That enabled Magic to plan content long term. 

https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/making-magic/six-year-plan-2012-12-03

5. Get back to the LGSs post pandemic. Exploit the vulnerability Wizards has created by sticking it to their LGSs with Amazon.

6. Make Wanderer work. Make it popular. Get all those CFC boxes with ten dual stones to be hot and get them all cracked.

7. Make a digital game like Magic Arena, the Pokemon TCG Online, or Yugioh Legacy of the Duelist.

Everyone who works on FOW should be required to watch the following video, no exceptions (Mark Rosewater, '20 years, 20 lessons,' at Game Developer's Conference)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHHg99hwQGY

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