>>96538010
That's half the problem. The other half of the problem is that what can be portrayed on a Magic card has fundamentally shifted. It's just not as fun to turn a 3rd party character or a meme into a card because that's just WotC standard business now. Goofy top down flavor designs like Giant Cactaur are just real cards now. The whole damn game is one big un-set and that makes it increasingly hard to take it seriously and get invested enough to think up even half-serious custom cards.