Looking Ahead

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Happy New Year! What will 2024 bring in Magic, both corporately and personally?

Corporately, Wizards intends to continue its blistering release pace. 

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Per this site, we have:

- Ravnica Remastered (compilation set)

- Murders at Karlov Manor (standard set)

- Universes Beyond: Fallout (Commander decks + collector boosters)

- Outlaws of Thunder Junction (standard set)

- Modern Horizons 3 (compilation set)

- Universes Beyond: Assassin's Creed (small release)

- Bloomburrow (standard set)

- Duskmourn: House of Horror (standard set)

The compilation and Universes Beyond sets don't grab me. I am curious about Outlaws of Thunder Junction (a wild west theme) and Bloomburrow (described as a 'cute' set in the vein of the Redwall book series). Duskmourn has a '70s horror theme' that is also intriguing. 

Personally, I want to do a few things:

- Buy only singles and precons of interest. I largely did this last year and it is a better (cheaper) way to collect for those who don't draft.

- Minimize my collection more. Last year, I sold 10k cards. This year, I hope to get rid of 5-6k more. 

- Build and play some cubes. This was a goal last year that I never got to.

- Figure out where I want this blog to go

For that last one, my overall goal remains "to explain, explore, and enjoy" this game. But as the years go on, I'm thinking of fewer things to explain. There is still plenty to explore and enjoy, but I want this to be a 'unique' experience for people, and not just rehashing what many other content creators do. To that end, I will do some of these two categories as I feel inspired:

- rules, formats, jargon

- news, reflections

But will focus on these categories:

- artists, history

- statistics/analysis

- collecting, storage

- cards, sets, cubes, decks

To 2024!