I’ve been taking a break from Magic since the beginning of Caves of Ixalan for a number of reasons, but am wanting to check out Bloomburrow. Since part of the reason I stepped away was the Play Booster changeup for drafting, I was wondering how people are feeling about it. I’d be particularly interested in reading your thoughts on it if you were a hater that has ultimately come around to the change.
My initial reaction to Play Boosters was “okay, whatever” and I guess I still feel that way. OTJ was a fun draft format (even though I didn’t care much for the Wild West setting). Was it better or worse than sets designed with the old rarity distribution? Hard to say.
My buying habits are that I’m F2P on Arena and I buy one box of each Standard set from my LGS, which sits in my basement until hopefully I’ll draft it with friends some day. Prices on Arena didn’t change. I noticed that the price of the booster box went up, but not by enough to put me off buying.
So overall, seems like I’m fine with it.