I do agree with potential issues, but there were ideas in the hopper they could use to reinvigorate the line and not have to necessarily make work with Classic Scape.
For instance, Fantasy Flight released Star Wars Descent...its not meant to be compatible, its it's own entity. Hasbro could do well with Star Wars theme glued onto the Scape theme. Have that stuff laying around somewhere here as well
Not sure MTG was the right format, definitely worth a shot though.
FYI, I and a few others started doing work with that as well to make it backwards compatible but timelines were pretty quick.