Magic The Gathering: Arena Dev Tracker

Drafting is being unstable right now, so we've temporarily disabled it while we sort things out. If you've completed the drafting portion, you'll be able to resume your event once we're able to turn drafts back on. Sorry for the delay, but you won't lose your progress.

Drafting is being unstable right now, so we've temporarily disabled it while we sort things out. If you've completed the drafting portion, you'll be able to resume your event once we're able to turn drafts back on. Sorry for the delay, but you won't lose your progress.

Deals are up at 8am PT today (and QuickDraft is back), as intended. Bolas is in the Meditation Realm; all's right with the world.

Timing of the deal transitions yesterday was a bug, not intended. Deals are still supposed to transition at 8am PT, but some bad data has made some roll over at midnight UTC

We are very few in number compared to the overall playerbase. And we come in all variety of ranks. (I'm usually low-ranked constructed, for example, because I spent 90% of my time in limited.)

"Report a bug" link in the options menu will get you there. For something like this, you can also just message me here. And thanks for the report!

Packs you open for draft or sealed deckbuilding will not care about the cards you have in your collection. Having 4x of a rare will not prevent it showing up (otherwise you would just craft 4x of all the bad rares to ensure you got good ones, right?).

If you get a rare/mythic you have 4x of, you will get 20/40 gems as normal. And the packs you earn as rewards from draft or sealed are duplicate protected like any other packs

When we run D1 as sealed, more players play in the Open than when D1 is draft. Our assumption is that more players prefer sealed here, or at least they find it more welcoming or approachable. We've also talked with the people that run big tabletop events, and they found sealed to be more approachable and net better for day 1. In any case, we like to do the thing that gets more players involved in playing the cool Magic event. That's why it's usually sealed for day 1.
Cube is different. Synergy-based collations tend to need the flexibility of draft for players to assemble interesting decks, so we ran cube as draft-draft. But, in general, the data shows more players prefer sealed-draft, so that's what we generally run

The focus will be on new-to-Arena cards. Maybe a couple reprints at C/U if the format needs them specifically, but it will be about bringing new cards to Arena in a fun, draftable format

Pioneer Masters is 100% draftable, and is designed to appeal to players like you describe. So I hope there are a lot of you :)

Comparing draft to constructed is very apples-to-oranges - paid vs free, the way draft spikes up much harder than constructed with each set release, etc.

What other types of information about draft would you be interested in?

We're adding Pioneer to Arena as quickly as we can. As you can easily see, it's also slower than many players would like. The gap between Arena and Modern is much wider than Pioneer.

Magic is a rich and complex game, and that makes implementing new cards & mechanics complex as well. This is especially true of older mechanics, which tend to be a bit twistier. We have a large chunk of the team focused on implementing new cards, but most of that work goes to keeping up with Standard. We can't get to Modern in any near-term timeframe. (And yes, we're constantly working to expand our bandwidth here, but scaling teams takes time too.)

Play and Ranked are generally pretty close to each other, around 60/40, with some formats favoring Play and some favoring Ranked. Ranked also gets a boost early in the month, which tends to shift towards Play as the month goes on.

Different formats also have different levels of Bo3 vs Bo1, but even the "most Bo3" formats still have the vast majority of their games in Bo1.

Standard brawl we see as mostly an intro format for Historic Brawl, and we're looking into that more currently

Definitely reach out to support; we’ll get it fixed. If you have problems there, DM me.

Thanks for the report. We're looking into this. As a reminder, any accounts found to be exploiting bugs risk suspension, bans, etc.

This was a bug. Fixing it (changing one number in a data file) took down the game for ~15m. Whee! Live development is fun!