1. As it happens with Magic foils, some of the foils are considerably darker than non-foils.
2. A lot of the artwork is really amazing, and the full-art format is something I wish Magic adopted and Pokemon has recently adopted for some cards. Some of the artwork is in the Yugioh category, and by that I mean that it is not so great. But this is true for all TCGs.
3. The similarities with Magic help this game a lot. In many ways FOW is like if Magic was reissued from scratch, something I think appeals to many Magic players. The dual stones are going where the Alpha-Beta-Unlimited, or ABU dual lands have been in Magic. Magic's mistake in not reprinting these dual lands is FOW's gain for sure.
4. At this stage in the game the cards are selling well, but it is very hard for a TCG to issue good set after good set. I hope the FOW designers keep their focus. If not, they will run into the same problems Magic faced early on with Fallen Empires and Homelands, and the World of Warcraft TCG faced with sets like War of the Elements. I won't mind opening cheap packs, but I would rather pay a little more for playable packs.
5. The colors are not well balanced, something FOW can learn from current Magic. Just like Blue is the color of Magic Legacy Constructed, Green is the color of FOW.
6. By reprinting all of the dual stones in Vingolf, I hope FOW sets a precedent that is a great strength of Yugioh and a great weakness of Magic: liberal reprinting.
7. I hope FOW takes many pages from the Magic play book, and specifically, from the Mark Rosewater play book. If they do, FOW will communicate design and development to players in a way that only Magic does today. For a case in point of how to fail at this, look at Yugioh's anemic strategy blog (it isn't even a site, sigh!).
