And this review by Skill Up. And this review by RagnarRox.
I guess the moral of the story is don’t listen to these shitty “games journalists” that have to crank out reviews on a daily basis. Listen to your favorite YouTube games reviewer, who actually fucking plays these games, and get their opinion.
Hasbro has been a shit company for the public of both MTG and D&D for years now. Even before the buyout, WotC was a shitty and greedy company, but Hasbro turned that dial up to 11 afterwards.
Here recently, they had all of those layoffs, but they were also trying to “de-open-source” the D&D 5e license agreement, which put most of the D&D community in a tailspin. The community revolted and fought back, and Hasbro/WotC caved. But, the fact that they tried something so brazen shows just how desperate for money they are.
Hasbro/WotC has also been making some terrible, terrible decisions with MTG, releasing way overpriced “anniversary” packs, messing with the frequency of standard rotations, putting out all of these pop culture media cards (LotR, Dr. Who, Warhammer 40K, etc.) with their Universes Beyond series, digging into older planes like Ravnica and Phyrexia waaaay too often, etc., etc, etc. Not to mention that they are finally at the point of porting older cards and formats from their extremely outdated MTGO client to MTG Arena, but their corporate greed is so great that they expected you to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars to shift those card collections over there.
Now, they earn a profit from the biggest series they never created, and wonder why all of those other bad decisions didn’t pay off.