@Triplis I agree with what you say and this particularly...…...
"This could sound like a compliment, like the game is so complex and deep that it's hard to understand, but I don't think it's that. I think the game is complex and deep in its diversity of playstyles it interfaces with, but I don't think the design itself is particularly deep. This leads me to the idea that the driving contributor to the feeling of being opaque and hard to understand is that the game is an amalgamation of characteristics that are at odds with each other and don't quite fit in the same space. Like pieces of many jigsaw puzzles rammed together into a single shape."
I have always hoped by buying more packs that they would all fit like a jigsaw puzzle but it is as if all the bits are the wrong shape and don't fit properly. You don't get many interactions between packs as they come out so there is no advantage in buying all of them. You might as well just buy one expansion and stuff packs. I feel that it is because they are made by separate teams and there have been too many changes and layoffs of staff too soon.
