Looks can be deceiving.

Everyone in the comment section are going to be in for a surprise come Thursday. The first episode has already been show to fans at an event in LA to high praise. Clips from it exist online if you seek it out.

It’s both. The rules aren’t crunchy like D&D, instead, the focus is on Role-playing.

They can be extremely unapologetically racist yep. 

I too have been playing since before Planeswalker cards, since Scourge, and while I can understand your feelings on the card type I can assure you that they aren’t a must have to create a winning deck. Most decks in Standard either don’t have them or don’t rely on them as part of their win condition. The waters fine!…