Sounds like corporate greed, mismanagement, and not giving a single fuck about their customers to me. I think you should just cut your losses.

Short version:

I love Magic irl, but I've always been rather troubled by the entire concept of cards with regard to rarity.

No, not that Rarity.  What I'm talking about is the concept of how we (Magic players) spend hundreds or thousands of dollars to get rare cards, when we are all patently aware that these are all just pieces of cardboard with different pictures printed on them.  A card with one picture printed on it is worth 10 cents, another with a different picture is worth 1000 dollars.  Am I the only one who sees a problem, here?  The companies could easily just print whatever the f*ck they want.  Rarity and price is determined by how many they choose to print.  It's total bs, imo.  And this is coming from a player who did spend a fair amount of money on cards back in jr high.  As an adult, I got very soured on buying any new cards, because the whole concept just seems scammy.  Why am I paying a buttload just for a different picture?  I could print up a card myself on some cardstock and it would look about the same.  What's the difference?

This brings me to an interesting point--with traditional board games, one could make their own pieces, or replace missing pieces, and no one would care.  Like, let's say we're playing chess irl, and I say, "Oh, I lost the white queen in this set, so I'm using this checker to represent the queen."  You'd be fine with that.  You could use anything.  You could use paper clips for the pawns and M&Ms for the rooks, and as long as everyone agrees on which things are which, nobody would care.  How about Magic cards?  Could I just say, "Hey, I wanted to use a Black Lotus, but I don't have one, so I printed one up."  WTF.  NO SIR.  Unacceptable.  It's fake.  You can't play with that.  But what's the difference, really?

Personally, I just got soured on the whole, whoever-spends-the-most-money-gets-the-best-cards format.  It's almost a pay to win game.  I'd prefer the game to be purely strategy based, where everyone has easy, cheap access to all cards, and it just comes down to who is the cleverest player, who can outsmart the other.  Y'know, like chess.  I'd prefer a situation where you can just look through an encyclopedia of cards, choose the ones you want, then print 'em up for cheap, and see who comes up with the most creative combos to defeat the other.  I'm just tired of the hunting and spending a fortune for rare cards paradigm.  I still play with my friends (or rather friend at this point.  I only have one I can still play with.), but I only use old cards.  Most of them I got from a garage sale.

It sounds like video game Magic is basically the same way.  Just a corporate greed scam to suck money out of people who want to have all the rare cards so they can brag and feel superior to their friends.  I'd rather just have the game be about strategy.  How about a pay-for game, a traditional one-time purchase and you own it for life type deal, and then you just get access to all cards ever made, and you just build the deck you want and play your friends online.  No grinding.  No rpg f*ckery.  Just actual playing of Magic.  That's how it should be.  I'd be into that.  I'd buy that 20 bucks or whatever.  In fact, you know what it needs to be?  Just f*ckin' Tabletop Simulator with Magic cards.  In fact, do they have that?  There's probably Steam workshop mods with Magic cards for Tabletop Sim.  If there is, then I'd be baffled as to how any brand name MTG video games are even still in business.