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On a similar note: Would you believe that this is one of my favorite books of all time?
No, I would not, for the simple reason that it's not a book.
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Oh, The Brothers' War? Yes, that's was a fine book. Generally agreed to be one of the few worthwhile Magic novels made.
Oh, I can believe it; after all, I quite enjoyed this books, for which people should have even lower expectations than your example.
This (and its first sequel) are the only MTG books I've read but for a while it was my favorite book of all time too. I reread it once later and still enjoyed it, though it has now been decidedly moved aside by some other works. It's also a work you might consider rationalist-lite in the sense of encouraging thought, experimentation, and invention over brute force, bravery, or many of the standard heroic traits in stories. It's not HPMOR and doesn't try to teach these traits to people, but at the very least it says that they're good things to have.
The only MTG books I really thought were worth reading were this one and the other ones Jeff Grubb wrote.