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THIS IS A SCHEDULED EVENT Jan 21, 16:30 - 19:30 UTC

Jan 20, 18:38 UTC
Scheduled - @MTG_Arena maintenance will occur to deploy the 2025.44.50 game update, containing the Aetherdrift preorder content.

๐Ÿ“ฅ Small download required.
๐Ÿ”„ Restart required.
โฒ๏ธ ~3 hour estimated deployment.
๐Ÿ“ Patch notes soon after.

#MTGAetherdrift


10 Jan

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Originally posted by Strungen

Thanks. This was as far as I've gotten myself

I believe you'll want to clear the WAS-RefreshToken and WAS-RememberMe entries from that registry location. We haven't tried to support exactly your situation, but this is what the engineers suggest.


09 Jan

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Headbanging Braids is my go-to there. Hmm, maybe we should add more good celebration emotes...


08 Jan

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Looks like something's gone wrong with your assets there. If that's still happening after a restart, try going to Options -> Report Bug -> Repair Game Files. That should fix it


07 Jan

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Originally posted by fjklsdhglksj

Options > Report a Bug > Repair Game Files

Try that?

Came here to say this; thanks u/fjklsdhglksj!


03 Jan

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Originally posted by RemusShepherd

Hmn. So if x=6 crashes the game, that's 36 new permanents entering at once? I wonder if the limit is near that. That would mean Oko+Doubling Season would crash with only ~4 other permanents on the board (4x8 + 2 Doubling Season tokens = 34 new permanents). That sounds about right.

The issue with Doppelgang isn't usually the number of permanents, it's the fact that you're doing it to [[Nyxbloom Ancient]] (or similar), which really blows up the potential mana payment calculations that drive autotap. We're actually overhauling this soon, so we should be able to support more chaos there.

I don't know exactly what's behind the crash in your case, but it's likely less about the number of tokens coming in and more about the text they have on them (ETBs, static effects, etc.)

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These emails have been slightly delayed by the holiday break. We expect them to go out soon


02 Jan

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Originally posted by DeusIzanagi

Wait, they exist already? What generates them?

Some of the OG duals are in Arena from things like Shoreline Scout or a very, very old Ashiok vs Elspeth event we did to go with THB's announcement. Most of them are not on Arena, though.


17 Dec

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This aggression pluralization will not stand, man!

Thanks for the report of this critical issue!

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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.

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Originally posted by FormerPlayer

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.


16 Dec

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Originally posted by Rez_Delnava

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

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Originally posted by Meret123

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.

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Originally posted by Gaggio23

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.

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This is a bug that affected many players, and we're working on a fix. More info here

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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

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Originally posted by wickedzen

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

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Originally posted by Lvl9LightSpell

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

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Originally posted by JugonEx

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

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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.

๐Ÿ“ฅ Small download required.
๐Ÿ”„ Restart required.
โฒ๏ธ ~3 hour estimated deployment.
๐Ÿ“ More Details: https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/banned-and-restricted-december-16-2024