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.
