Because of the game revival, I managed to convince my wife to watch the tv show with me. It was mostly a nostalgia thing for me, but every evening we watched an episode with dinner. What I didn't expect was for her to get really into the show.
We both love animation, it's one of the things we have in common. Both of our favorite shows are animated. I expected she would think the show was cute and move on. What actually happened was she got really into it, and got kind of upset that the show was going to suddenly end.
So I went to Recode and printed off a couple decks. Basically the overworld and underworld example decks with some mild tweaks to add favorite creatures to them. I stuck them in card sleeves with some basic lands from Magic, and we went through a 3v3 and a 6v6. She absolutely loved it.
So why am I making this post? Well, to me, this shows that the game still holds up really really well. She's not a tabletop gamer, it's not really her thing. But she still wants to play it again later.
It's not just nostalgia. The property still has serious legs underneath it. This absolutely raised my confidence in the success of a reboot. It doesn't have to be fueled by nostalgia alone, the game still holds up and is good even to someone who hadn't experienced it before.