Yeah, I agree.
A bit off-topic, but something I noticed while looking at mtg.wiki is that UB might end up being almost half of the Standard-legal sets by 2027. My logic:
- Of the six sets being released this year, half of them are UB (the June, September, and November sets).
- WotC announced only three of the sets for next year - assuming they're keeping up the same six-new-sets-a-year pace, the other three slots might end up being UB sets, just like this year.
- In 2027, every set released before Foundations rotates. That means that we'll end up with Foundations, the six non-UB sets from 2025/2026, the six UB sets from 2025/2026, and whatever sets they release in 2027 (which, if the totally-real-pattern-that-I-just-made-up-because-it's-1am holds will probably end up being half UB as well).
I'm probably wrong about something here, because "half of our sets moving forward will be UB" sounds very unsustainable, especially given how long the design cycle is. My suspicion is that the three UB sets that are coming out this year won't be as profitable as WotC is hoping and that we'll get some quiet behind-the-scenes course correction, but we'll see - I suspect that the Avatar set is going to be the real test, because the break-out success for that franchise was literally twenty years ago and nothing they've done since has been nearly as culturally impactful.
