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This aggression pluralization will not stand, man!
Thanks for the report of this critical issue!
This aggression pluralization will not stand, man!
Thanks for the report of this critical issue!
Hey, there was unfortunately an error with this bundle that made it not show up properly. We're sending it back to Santa and the (Llanowar) elves to tune it up a bit, and we'll bring it back early next year. Sorry about this; I wanted those lands too.
When you do, can you still ban Tibalty's Trickery in Bo1, just as you did for leyline of resonance in standard Bo1?
That's something we'll watch and consider. In general we think it's cleaner when Bo1 & Bo3 can share a ban list, so that's the preferred state. But, as you point out with the Leyline example, there are situations where a Bo1-only ban creates a net-better play experience.
Arg! I just bought the snowy forest sleeve, and now it's getting a bundle. Lame.
The bundle will be discounted for you, reduced by the price of the sleeve. Almost all of the cosmetic bundles work like this
There is also a banlist difference, for some reason Tibalt's Trickery is banned in Explorer.
Tibalt's Trickery can get overused in Bo1 queues by players coinflipping for quick wins. This was a problem early in Explorer's life, so we banned it. When we officially change the name, we plan to unban it, so we fully match Pioneer's banlist.
This whole article feels really unrealistic to me. First of all, data analysis is mentioned but never mentioning from what type of event is taken (bo1, bo3, play, ranked, event??). If you look at untapped data, which is partial but still it's data that we can access and should be a realistic sample, the meta share is really polarized towards ajani/bombardment decks, which even after the nerfs still feel unfair to play against.
When looking at format data for balance, we take all of the competitive modes into account (usually ranked and events, and always looking at both Bo1 and Bo3). We don't use data from the Play queues for balance, because the deck-based matchmaking there skews results.
Third-party data (like Untapped) is only a small slice of the playerbase, and it's also non-representative. The more competitive/hardcore/experienced players are more likely than the casual players to use a tool like this, and they're also more likely to play the meta decks, so it provides a distorted picture.
To answer a question from a parallel comment, when we're looking at deck popularity & winrates, the system uses a flexible clustering algorithm, so it pulls in decks that are similar, not just identical.
This is a bug that affected many players, and we're working on a fix. More info here
We implemented the ban this morning (instead of Tuesday), because we've made some improvements to our backend systems that allow us to be more responsive here.
Unfortunately, there was a bug with how the wildcards were calculated (if you had any copies from MUL, you only got refunds for your MUL copies; if you had no MUL copies, you got refunds for your IKO copies). The intended behavior is that it should look at the total number of copies you have and give you up to 4 wildcards (the number you could use in a deck).
We are currently prepping an inbox letter that will deliver any missing wildcards
I have 6 but only got 2 wildcards :_(
(I submitted a ticket. Just wanted to mention this seems to be possible.)
You should have gotten 4 in that case, but it's sounding like there was a bug here. We're looking into it
It looks like Jegantha is only refunding WCs for the MUL version - I have 1 IKO and 3 MULs and only got three wild cards. Other people on discord are reporting numbers consistent with this.
We have seen similar reports. It sounds like there's some kind of bug happening here, and we are investigating
So.. I only got one, and I had 3 from Ikoria and 1 from MUL. Do i have to submit a ticket?
This sounds like a bug, and you're not the only one reporting it. We are investigating
Dec 16, 19:22 UTC
Completed - Scheduled maintenance is complete. Players may need to restart their client to receive the banned and restricted notification.
Dec 16, 17:00 UTC
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Dec 16, 16:33 UTC
Scheduled - @MTG_Arena maintenance will occur to deploy the 2024.44.5 game update, containing banned and restricted updates to Explorer format.
📥 Small download required.
🔄 Restart required.
⏲️ ~3 hour estimated deployment.
📝 More Details: https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/banned-and-restricted-december-16-2024
Does that work for less than 4 of any specific printing? I have 1 Botanical Sanctum from Thunder Junction and 3 from Aether Revolt.
Yes, the rule is "If you have 4 cards with Title_X, you will not get any more cards of Title_X (until you have collected all other cards of that rarity from that pack)"
How many can you play in a single deck?
This is the right logic. You will get up to 4 wildcards for Jegantha (or any given card)
and wtf are you gonna do with 4 jeganthas????
One day Elk typal, one day...
I doubt the version matters, as both cards play identically. The only question that matters is whether you can get more than 4 wildcards.
I crafted two of each, but am now second guessing myself. If this is available in flashback drafts or I for some reason decide to buy and open a pack from one of those sets, I’m not duplicate protected yet and could get a fifth copy instead of gems. But it’s not worth the risk to me to try and spend 4 more wildcards if I might not get them back.
You are dupe-protected. Since WOE, duplicate protection has worked by title, not the specific printing.
Yes, Historic is almost always the most diverse format on Arena. I tried to indicate this in the State of the Formats article by talking about how much of the meta was taken up by the top 3 decks. In Standard this number was 24%, in Alchemy it was 12%, and in Historic it was 5%. Obviously those precise numbers vary a bit, but that general structure stays pretty consistent
WOTC Jay. How many wildcards do we get for Jegantha if we have both sets? 4 or 8?
4; we’re reimbursing you for what you could use in a deck
This is a decent place to ask this. Do employee names always appear in mythic orange, or is it something that can be toggled? I ask because I reported a username a couple weeks back that was WotC_* but appeared in white.
The vast majority of Wizards employees should have orange names, but there are likely a few that haven't submitted their accounts to get the treatment
Ha! They're a menace, and their name is not to be trusted.
Fun fact: A decent chunk of Arena's new player experience (with Spark Rank and the Starter Deck Duels) was inspired by a story a coworker told. They were trying to teach their partner Magic, and very shortly out of the tutorial their partner, quite randomly, got paired with this "NotVeryGoodAtMagic" player. And, well, that poor new player had absolutely no idea what happened to them as they got destroyed. So we built a longer, safer onramp before new players would have to encounter monsters like this