I brought this up before but the difference between comics and magic is that the narrative for mtg has no bearing on the actual gameplay. This isn't like comics where they make Mary sues or stupid ass plot lines to push an agenda, these are cards with abilities that won't be pass committee if it's too broken because it needs to fit into the game.
Case in point. Aisha who smiles at death is apparently the first trans character in mtg, and while some trans people may play her in commander, the average player judges her for the text in the card. All the shit Jeremy puts out about stuff like making teferi more woke is neat but most players don't know who teferi is and don't care to know either. It takes a special autism on both ends to truly care about what's being put in the art of a playing card.
You're absolutely right, insofar as few people actually give a shit about the cards themselves beyond the usual nonsense starting to creep in from the borders, so long as the crunch is all right.
Unfortunately that shit isn't what's driving people away from the hobby - it's a symptom and not the disease.
Magic has a host of fucking problems right now -
actual ones - that WOTC has systemically failed to address. Horrifically bad cardstock (that is fucking
destroying the value of what this hobby is
based on), numerous misprints in set launches this year, and a number of fucking boxes that were launched
with zero randomization, are just three big ones from the last year alone. Many of these problems are things that have been bitched about for months, if not the start of this thread, and yet little - if anything - has been done about these.
What WOTC
has done, and what's pissing everyone off, is
virtue signaling. Lots and fucking
lots of virtue signaling.
And it's the same shit it always is: Staff members and community managers who shamelessly flash their bonafides, push the same politics, and blame the customerbase for an insular nerd hobby being insular and filled with nerds, then declaring that those nerds, who are
the game's fucking
customers, need to change (or get the fuck out if they won't/can't). They push the same gender communism horse shit where if a hobby or work isn't X percentage women and Y percentage POC it's not doing it right, and again, blames the fucking customers for this. One of the Head Judges from Wizards' Judge Program, last year, literally said if you're a white male, they don't want you in the judge system and that you shouldn't apply. It's the same fucking diversity-uber-alles bullshit we fucking
always see from these ideologues, because these faggots think everything has to be political, at all times.
Putting it simply: The hobby has real problems that aren't being addressed, and WOTC seemingly doesn't give a damn about addressing them, but somehow always finds the time to fucking virtue signal and have its staff grandstand about how cool and progressive they are.
