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Another expansion

In light of some of things Craig said about WotC and their treatment of Herosape and Battleship Galaxies, I highly doubt any more expansions will come around, even if they had them in development and designed another expansion or two already both in cards and figure sculpts. If they made another wave of Marvel Heroscape complete with figures and sculpts and designed a Star Wars Heroscape set and still never released it, my guess is someone designed a Kaledesh Magic:Arena expansion but will never release it. Although I really hope they prove me wrong.
 
Its all speculation because we haven't heard anything at all since Innistrad came out.
 
Based on their release for all three current products it seems likely that their trend is a new -expansion set in april-ish.

As for the speculation about it being canned, does anyone happen to remember how early we knew about the Zendikar or Innistrad sets? How much leakage was really out there for those games? I couldn't find really any spoiler for Innistrad or Zendikar. The lack of leaks/ hype could just be the community not super interested in it. Which may sound bad but the urpose of this product is to turn Board Gamers into MTG:TCG players.

But I guess we'll see in a month or two.
 
We knew in advance about Zendikar, I was aboe to pre-order it.

Innistrad just got dumped without any fanfare and before the expected release date too. One day retailers just had it. I think they may have already decided to cancel it at that point and just unloaded the finished products they had already produced.
 
Hogg said:
NinjaFossil said:
I've looked into it, and people on the actual AotP forum seem to think the next set will come out around April, and could contain artefacts. The only problem is, we don't know how artefacts are meant to work! My speculation is that Artefacts will either be treasure glyphs or be colourless like the Eldrazi were
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Do we have any real indications that something is coming or is it wishful thinking. There have been a lot of toy and game shows since the last release and they pretty much skipped the holiday season without a peep of news. I had pretty much given up on it and figured Hasbro had canned it.
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I supposed their predictions were wrong… just as things started to get interesting, as well!
 
Is there still no news of any further expansions/sets? I am guessing that no news at this point means the product line is dead. So much potential. Perhaps the sales just weren't there to keep it alive.
 
Considering how low they are selling right now, my guess is they printed way more then they should have.

Reminds me a bit of the Marvel release.
 
Wizkids is releasing a new Planeswalker game that is not compatible with AOTP. AOTP is sadly dead.
 
I hate when they tease stuff without pics lol Thanks for sharing! I play a lot of Magic, so I'm interested to see how they're gonna make a Euro-style game...
 
The writing was pretty much on the wall. Innistrad came out early with no advertising. There was a year of silence. Then both main sets ended up at discount retailers over the holidays for as low as $5.
 
I payed full retail for everything when it initially came out, but I also picked up a second copy of both Master Sets for $5 each. I got a handful of extras too and gave them to some of my friends.

When I was picking up my comics today I noticed someone had special ordered the first set from them and they were holding it behind the counter. They charge $40 still.
 
I have been offline for awhile and I figured I'd ask despite not wanting to. AotP is pretty much dead (or has been for some point ) at this point right? Personally its a shame as most of the games mechanics such as common units or possible terrain ideas were not fully realized got scrapped. Makes me wonder how they would have handled artifacts , silver treasure glyphs I'd think. Oh well.
 
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I have been offline for awhile and I figured I'd ask despite not wanting to. AotP is pretty much dead (or has been for some point ) at this point right? Personally its a shame as most of the games mechanics such as common units or possible terrain ideas were not fully realized got scrapped. Makes me wonder how they would have handled artifacts , silver treasure glyphs I'd think. Oh well.
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I feel the same way. Lots of untapped potential.

It's not officially cancelled, as far as I know. But at the same time, no new products have been announced or teased in quite some time. And the game hasn't even been mentioned by any of wizard's PR advertising. So it seems unlikely that we will see anything new. The player-base is also fairly small at this point (understandably).

I think Wizards made a mistake by not going all in... They were perhaps too hesitant to really invest their resources into it, which led to a lack of content, which in turn led to the game's inevitable downfall.
 
Well history repeats itself. People boycotted them when they discontinued Heroscape. Had AOTP garnered the success the original did , they'd have a few less customers buying stuff and it would seem odd to say the least. Heck back in 2010 , i could barely afford a RotV and that was all i had. I lurked here then and couldn't afford much else. Never really knew that heroscape boycotts were a thing . Thank Wikipedia for that gem of knowledge . Gives the fan-base a new level of dedication actually. Allow me to quote : " After taking over Heroscape, Wizards of the Coast issued new products with a Dungeons and Dragons theme (another of their product lines). This change was reported to be intended to reduce production costs, but existing players saw it as an attempt to convert players away from Heroscape to D&D. On November 3, 2010, Wizards of the Coast announced that they would be discontinuing production of Heroscape products, supposedly in favor of focusing on their core games: Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering. This caused an instant backlash in the Heroscape community, including petitions and threats of boycotts. Despite the lack of official production for several years, the game remains popular, with a strong and dedicated community, regular tournaments, and user-created content." (Wikipedia) It just seems so out of left field even for Wizards as MTG is one of their IPs to make a game system with some intent to see competitive use and suddenly stop refining the system and leaving crucial holes in the rules like common squads that (if I'm not mistaken don't exist specifically in AOTP). It's something that I don't think under normal circumstances the staff at Wizards would do.
 
I've always thought that a C3V/C3G-styled group would be a good fit for Arena of the Planeswalkers. If there's enough support for it, it would definitely be the best avenue to continue the Arena game for anyone who wants to.
 
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