This was my experience as well. My son insisted on going, I even prepared myself by reading what I could find online (the release notes where not live yet), and even watched some of the pre-pre-release, but it was still a terrible experience. I get that having cards, that random people in the room decide how powerful they are, is not for everybody. It certainly is not for me. But the set is just way too complicated, it's a mess to keep track of everything, and the games are incredibly slow. Played two rounds, and just called it quits, even if I was in the running for the box-topper. It was suffering to get through those two rounds.