Before this set, probably my biggest exposure to this franchise are two YouTube channels, namely one is Scott The Woz who is not an RPG guy, and the more important one is videogamedunkey who actively finds things to clown on these games, usually in the form of nonsensical dialogues. To be fair, that’s the thing with these “Nintendo platformers influenced” people looking at these JRPG right, ain’t no way they would be fond of them. Turns out they would like Persona instead.
So welcome to my first take at an Universes Beyond set, one where ideas like the legendary supertype is supposed to have a special status or a Standard set is supposed to be affordable are all thrown out of the window and instead appealing to people who don’t whine on the internet over meaningless things is the foremost important goal. I’m certainly in the latter camp as shown in all my previous work, and honestly I find it part of the fun of Magic nowadays, just pointing out so much crap the good cards stop mattering at all.
You know what, that’s all I’m going to preface about this set. Otherwise, it will devolve into something horrible and unrelated. I highly suggest you read this article to see something you might want to avoid getting into nowadays:
Not too sure how effective these things are at conveying the specific unique things that make people love these games.
Heads up: All four decks have white in them. Color balance!
One of the undeservingly dominance amount of commanders in this set, with art I’m not too sure is that great.
This frame may fit this specific art style, but not all of them.
Which includes a bonus sheet that starts two different alarming trends with these things, some starter decks and lastly four scene boxes released later on.
I will want to reuse this image to rant about oversimplification. I mocked this thing up myself.