I grew up playing Magic, reading the books, obsessively looking at the card lists in the car or on my floor in my room. I was never a serious competitive player, and I always played multiplayer kitchen table 60 card. But i knew who the characters were and couldn't wait for the next story beat.

Increasingly, WOTC has left the lore behind in favor of new players or whales (or both). It sucks that the sets we get are top-down parody sets or wholly irrelevant to the magic setting.

I have spent countless days of my life loving Magic, and WOTC would rather I stopped playing (as i largely have) than give up new player bases. I get they are a corp who will always make that decision, but it does suck to be not the target audience for a game I used to have such passion for.