The thing that has turned me off more now than ever before is the way the game has fully stagnated. Every new release is just a reskinned iteration that calcified at the end of COVID. The mechanics have gotten cookie-cutter and have really divorced themselves from the different styles and themes between sets.

fucking a-men.

The most blatant of this was when Android : Netrunner was licenced by Fantasy Flight Games and every set not only DIDN’T HAVE LOOTBOXES/RANDOM PACKS, but almost every card design was unique.

At the very least, until they started trying to get into cycling sets out and new ones in to build standard, and instead of cards being balanced by later cards, they just dumped new broken sweeper shit in there (unavoidable tags into resource sweepers)

And then you compared it to the state of MTG which started becoming :

Every fucking card is either bullshit removal, or “When you resolve this spell turn a land into a 0/0 creature and put a +1/+1 counter on each land that turned into a creature this turn and draw a card if your land creatures have five enchantments”.