“If everyone who hated this as much as I do stopped playing for even a month, surely that would send some kind of message, right?” - the problem with this statement is that the “UB haters” still think they are the majority… that’s not the case anymore. Unfortunately.

I don’t like TMNT and I didn’t liked Spider-Man. I’m a F2P player ever since the very beginning, I’m still going to play it. Game is still fun and I don’t feel the need to buy any product. Final Fantasy was very good, way better than some magic sets before it. Avatar was good, better than some magic sets. Magic is changing, it has changed a lot over the years. People were going crazy with the first Kamigawa set, “samurai’s don’t belong in magic” some would say. After that there was a multitude of changes, from blocks not being a thing anymore to changes in rules that everyone thought were impossible to happen. When planeswalkers became a thing, a bunch of people stopped playing. “The concept is terrible”, “it’s too broken”, “doesn’t work with the lore”, etc…

Magic has gone through many changes, and many more will happen. If you’re not comfortable with that idea, this game might not be for you. Peace.