Four booster packs for $230 (this price was leaked by Amazon and has since been deleted, but is likely accurate) is the hardest sale Wizards has tried to make, but it might not be as bad as players immediately assume
Ultimately, this is a placeholder solution so that more time can be spent on fingerprinting and identifying headless browsers (EG: via how they do font rendering) so that the challenge proof of work page doesn't need to be presented to users that are much more likely to be legitimate
Creatures (30) 3 Giant Killer 4 Seasoned Hallowblade 3 Skyclave Apparition 4 Luminarch Aspirant 2 Halvar, God of Battle 3 Usher of the Fallen 2 Reidane, God of the Worthy 4 Professor of Symbology 1 Mila, Crafty Companion 4 Retriever Phoenix Planeswalkers (3) Lands (23) Spells (4) This is a classic deckbuilding study
The idea was for this to be the sequel to Magic: The Gathering , but plans changed along the way and almost every single new product under the MTG banner would be backwards-compatible, with them changing how they release each batch of cards