

Not soon after, the Pinkertons showed up at his home and demanded the product back. He then opened the packs and uploaded them to YouTube. Oldschoolmtg runs a channel all about Magic: The Gathering and acquired unreleased March of the Machine: The Aftermath boxes. This has led to several image macro memes mocking the ads, particularly on /r/okbuddyretard (examples shown below).Shockingly, it looks like Wizards of the Coast sent Pinkertons private security to retrieve Magic The Gathering products from a YouTuber who spoiled a new set via an unboxing video. On October 11th, YouTuber Foekoe posted a video parodying how ads for the game were all over YouTube, gaining over 385,000 views (shown below). For example, it appeared in a May 18th, 2019 video about League of Legends streamers by Hi Im Coconut (shown below, left) and a JonTron video posted April 15th, 2019 (shown below, right). Online, the game has been a sponsor of many popular YouTube videos, leading viewers to get irritated at the ubiquity of its ads.

Pocket Gamer also praised the game's graphic quality. Gamezebo wrote that the game's art-style of dark fantasy instead of anime style typical of gacha games. Each of the 300 collectible characters features unique motion-capture animations produced exclusively in Plarium’s in-house studio to create distinctive character traits and personas." According to Venture Beat, the game, "(offers) one of the most unified game experiences in the collection RPG genre.

A trailer for the game released a month prior (shown below). The game was released on August 2nd, 2018.
