Firstly, my first thought on Silver Age is that it could have been better. Eight sets is two years of cards, for crissake - the entire point of a block format (and Silver Age essentially introduces one) is to make it slightly less intimidating to the newbie player. Six sets probably would have been fine - as of Infinite Crisis it would have meant no MOR, DOR, MSM or DSM, giving you a spread from Marvel Knights to Infinite Crisis - roughly 24 major teams - and a cardpool of 1320 cards plus any starter decks, which is heaps plenty for a limited format.

But, on the whole, I'm happy with Silver Age. I hope the introduction of a proper block format - which I've been wanting for a very long time now - means that UDE will feel freer to develop the occasional *good defensive card*, on par with Acrobatic Dodge or Entangle. (Or, for teamstamped defensive twists, on par with Mystical Paralysis or Reign of Terror.) Or even just reprints of the damn cards, why not.

But something bothers me, which is that they're trying to set in Silver Age AND keep Modern Age. Look, Modern Age is a stupid format, okay? There's no flow to it, no evolution, no good reason for it worth mentioning, and so far we're two Modern environments out where one was mediocre (MSM/MMK) and one sucked outright (DSM/DGL). Modern Age in my area actively drives away players. They should have just said "right, it was a bad idea" and then opted to never mention Modern Age again.

But people don't like to admit mistakes.

That's why they can thus be clever and not admit it. They could have issued a press release about how everybody "loved" Modern Age, and here was the NEXT great limited format for VS, and then quietly dumped Modern Age into the trash, never to be seen again. (And really, I think it's what they'll end up doing in a year's time anyway.)