THE FUSE

Launches of any number of new sets of Magic the Gathering cards go pretty badly, with products routinely snapped up before most can get the site to load, and in-store stock chances few and far between. So it takes a pretty special scale of dreadful for it to result in an unfettered mea culpa from Wizards of the Coast. That’s what’s followed yesterday’s attempted launch of Chaos Vault’s The Zeta Set, an especially interesting and uniquely designed set of Secret Lair reprints that had the community buzzing. “It was a disaster,” says WotC today. “There’s no other way to say it.”