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Originally Posted by ashelton
Everyone has conspiracy theories, here's mine -
I think Cryptozoic is just plain phasing out trading card sets. Their focus is obviously on gaming cards and board games at this point.
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Which would be a real shame, and would cripple the hobby pretty badly. I like Rittenhouse but having them be the only major player would be terrible for card collectors, especially since they really like to appeal to high end collectors with a lot of their sets (Star Trek for example has become aimed at people who buy a lot of product, with all of the parallel sets and all of the autographs of people worth having being so hard to pull).
Topps is basically just Star Wars these days, Upper Deck is trying to branch out but their boxes are too expensive and the way they restrict online sales would limit a lot of people, and Breygent puts out nice sets but they are not exactly timely (when did Dexter end? Season sets are still coming out, so imagine if they were the ones doing Arrow). I wish Inkworks was still around, I loved those guys