March Results for the Question of the Month Thanks everyone for the overwhelming response for last month's Question of the Month. We received exactly 302 replies to the question :       WotC recently announced a new plot line to tie in all the expansions; they are creating this ship, called Weatherlight, which travels between the different planes of Dominaria. Predict how this Weatherlight saga will do... will it enhance the game, make it totally corny, or ??? Why do you think so??   The responses varied widely... some people, such as Mark Cross, who thought that : First of all, let me mention that I'm positive (though WOTC will never admit it), that Weatherlight was created as a response to the growing popularity of Legend of the 5 Rings. L5R made its name via the use of a continuing storyline, and as each expansion came out, the story would continue in the cards themselves (and not some separate story in a magazine). It was this ingenious, creative stroke that made me look at L5R in the first place. And though L5R is not Magic (Magic is still no. 1 with me), it may however be the best multi-player game in the market (certainly better than Magic since 4 player Magic sucks). This minor point aside, Weatherlight will introduce more creatures with special abilities. Since Mirage, it seems that utility is the main consideration when creating new cards and the idea of faraway lands just sets up well for multi-color creatures with strange powers. I wasn't too impressed with Visions, I don't think that Weatherlight will do any better. Alliances and Mirage still rank at the top of my list for best sets. To people who thought that Weatherlight would be "corny", such as Chris B. : I think the story is pretty corny, a ship that travels around??? Sound like some kinda care bear crap or something, I dont know what it will do to the game but it sures sounds like crap to me...   and Gavin de Luna... I think this "Weatherlight" is kind of corny. I mean a ship?!?! The expansions are already explain with different planes. I think this is just another marketing ploy.   Some people simply thought that WotC was overdoing it with the expansions, such as Kevin Hess... Actually, it's a neat idea, but it'd be better if the expansions were more evenly spaced out. WoTC shouldn't release another expansion for.. well, probably not until the end of this year, at least. I'll be perfectly happy to see the Weatherlight, oh, say, around this Christmas. :)   and Bryan Montero It will hurt the current environment of Type II. It seams that WotC is getting over zelous in making expansion to maintain their current high level of sales. But this over "expansion" will and could hurt the real reason that people buy MtG cards and that is to play, either friendly or with friends!!! What this does is eliminate the best effective use of either the more potent cards and increase the abuse of the Secondary market(meanig that the price of those few singles that average person needs to either complete a set or play a new deck, will sky rocket since only the Stores will be buying boxes to sell the single) I could understand WotC releasing every 9-12 months, but please don't misunderstand me. I just fear another expansion like Homelands. And I love opening fresh boosters to find new cards to either incorporate in to my present deck or to sit down and make a new based on special quality from the new card. If given the choose of my cards being de-valued due to overprinting (Longer print runs over time) and a new release every 3-5 months.... I'd take overprinting. And if WotC continues with this curent trend of rotating cards every few months I will have to either sell my cards or have a bon fire at the next Pro-Tour stop using my cards as the fuel to the fire. I know many were upset with the lose of Ice Age and Fallen Empires, but those two were due. But I hear first WeatherLight and before Christmas another Stand-Alone is due for relase... please...someone call Susan Powers to "Stop the Insanity" before everyone gets turn-off. But, a good percentage of the people thought that Weatherlight is a good idea, such as Jon Palmer... I think that Weatherlight will help to show us a great many new people, items, and creatures that have never been seen before. It should help to maybe show more of Phyrexia, one of the other planes previously talked about in Magic. Maybe there'll be new and better planes or even more corrupted ones but we shall never now untill it comes out.   Price Rials... I don't think it will be very corny at all. Wizards always seems to do a good job with their story line's and also we've already seen some of the Weatherlight in Mirage and Visions.(teferi's Drake-We threw dried fruit to hte drakes that rode the air,streaming along the Weatherlight's side as we sailed amidst the clouds.-Sisay Cpt. of the Weathlight.) It will also give us a chance to learn more about the diffrent areas of Dominia.   and Jeremy Zipay... It makes sense to have an airship which can travel between the planes when planeswalkers also have the exact ability. In fact, it seems more logical to see a ship carry its passengers to new worlds, rather than seeing a person hop from plane to plane by sheer willpower. I think that tying all the worlds together in this manner is a great move by WoTC for the following reasons: The worlds will seem "smaller" and more connected in the role-playing sense. Planeswalkers summon creatures from more than one plane during the same duel already, so creatures have been interacting against their wills for a quite a while. The Weatherlight will finally bring creatures together in more of a civil fashion more or less. This new expansion will provide WoTC with the opportunity to create cards based in the worlds of previous expansions w/o having to re-release the expansion. For example, WoTC might have thought up some great card ideas for Antiquities or Arabian Nights, but it's too late to include these additions to an expansion that was already released. "Weatherlight" will provide an opportunity to see new cards from old worlds.