At first I thought it was a printing error, but I see the same thing in scryfall images of the card. They’ve done a lot of variations with the card art over the years but I’ve never seen an art variation that obscures the card text itself (excluding cards that omit the text entirely because the card is well known, like Islands).
I’m just surprised that I can’t even find anyone talking about it because it seems like an odd design choice to me.
I think it should always be avoided. Fortunately that one is somewhat subtle but I think it should never be done. The text should be the highest layer in the design file. I already think they took things too far with that bordered text on the FCA cards:
This is nearly unreadable for me and it hurts my head to read it.
Yeah, they are confusing and IMO some don’t even look good (like that one).