Wizards of the Coast has announced it is ceasing the printing of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Magic: The Gathering cards in ꦚthree languages, starting with September’s Dominar🐻ia United.
Russian, Korean, and Traditional Chinese cards will no longer be printed starting with the set, ജalthough local game stores in all three regions will continue to be supplied with English-language product and promo cards.
, no reasons for the cancellation of these languages was given other than it being part of Wizards’ goal to♓ “continually evaluate [their] product lineup”.
This isn’t the first reduction of Korean and Traditional Chinese Magic products. Starting with Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty earlier this year, it was announced that Draไft boosters would no longer be printed in the languages, and only Set boosters would remain. With this change, all products will now be in Engཧlish.
The news that Russian WPN (Wizards Play Network) stores will be receiving English-language promotional cards (which are often given as prizes for events at game stores) may actually be somewhat good news for the local scene. Ever since at least 2020’s Commander Legends, Russian game stores have comp🐼lained about the lack of promos they have received from Wizards, prompting the community to start the campaign in February. Notably, neither Hasbro nor Wizards of the Coast pulled sales from the region following Russia’s invasion of Ukrꦍaine later that month.
Despite tabletop play no longer being published in these languages, it was confirmed that Magic: The Gathering Arena🅘 would still support Russian and Korean digit🗹ally. This means Traditional Chinese will be the only one of these three languages to no longer have any Magic at all released for it.
Dominaria United marks the start of Magic’s calendar, which runs from Autumn to Autumn. This means that it will be introducing a number of other changes to the game on top of the removal of these three languages, such as the previously-announced 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:price increase and new 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Jumpstart booster packs.
As of Dominaria United, the offꦛicial language line-up will be English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Portuguese. Though not all products will be printed in all languages, ‘premiere sets and other ancillary releases’ (IE the four main 🧔Standard-legal sets each year, as well as tie-in products like their Commander decks) will be printed in all eight.