Hey Netflix, Why Isn't Magic: The Gathering At Geeked Week?

thegamer.com:

This week, Netflix has been hosting its annual Geeked Week event - a whole week of reveals for its geekiest shows (Oh, now I get the name!). Its announcements so far have included everything from a new Cyberpunk 2077 anime to Resident Evil’s trailer.

With Netflix going all-in on everything geeky, there has been one, frustrating absence in its line-up: the Magic: The Gathering show it’s meant to be releasing this year. Not only is it worrying to have radio silence on something launching in the next six months, it shows just how little cultural cache Magic possesses, despite its mind-blowing success.

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When it was first announced, the Magic show was being produced by the Russo Brothers. It was huge – fresh off Avengers Infinity War and Endgame - the latter briefly reigning as the most successful movie at the box office of all time -producing a show about a game with almost three decades of history? There was no way it could fail.

Then we heard nothing about it until last year’s Magic Showcase. The Russo Brothers had long since departed the show to make another Netflix project, The Gray Man, and we were now introduced to a slightly less exciting name: Jeff Kline. Kline isn’t bad by any stretch, having produced things like the Jackie Chan Adventures and the recent Transformers shows, but it is a huge leap down from the grandeur of having the Russo Brothers on it as one of their first post-Endgame forays.

At least we received our first details about the show itself, though. While earlier teasers hinted it’d focused on the pyromancer Chandra Nalar, it was revealed that we’d instead be focusing on Gideon Dura, played by Superman himself, Brandon Routh.