Did it Really Almost End MTG? (Fallen Empires)

Описание: Join me as we dig through old posts and old articles to learn what we can about the time Magic: the Gathering crashed the card game market bubble. The early nineties were full of endless possibilities and endless card games, all clamoring for the top spot. Then Wizards of the Coast released 312 - 340 million cards into the market in the form of Fallen Empires and the rest, is history. In this video I explore the claim that Fallen Empires came close to destroying Magic and the entire card market.

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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:14 Fallen Empires Narrative
02:27 Fallen Empires oversupply
03:09 Dumb Bit
03:25 The End of Innocence
05:41 Old Card Games
06:25 WotC creates MCS
08:18 Retailer Sweepstakes
10:12 Usenet posts
12:55 Dumb Bit 2
14:29 Conclusions



Sources:
A decent enough wiki that houses a lot of info:
https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Fallen_Em...

An article I briefly mention:
https://icv2.com/articles/columns/vie...

The Duelist issue number 8, housing the article, "The End of Innocence"
https://archive.org/details/the-dueli...

The Duelist issue number 5, informing us on MCS and Retailers Sweepstakes
https://archive.org/details/duelist-5...

TCG Posting for The Dark:
https://www.tcgplayer.com/product/273...

TCG Posting for Fallen Empires:
https://www.tcgplayer.com/product/272...

AND A WHOLE CRAP LOAD OF USENET POSTS, in NO particular order (Sorry, I have ADHD)

https://groups.google.com/g/rec.games...

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Whippoolwill crashout:
https://groups.google.com/g/rec.games...


UseNet selling posts.
https://groups.google.com/g/rec.games...

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Dude, did you really look through all these sources?
Lol.
Lmao, even.