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The naming and sorting of game modes is a disaster!
Everything named "traditional" is bo3, everything else is randomly bo1 or bo3?
"Standard Event" is bo1.
"Standard Ranked" is bo1.
-> "Standard Metagame Challenge" is ... right, bo3!
"Standard Event" is the bo1 always active event mode.
"Traditional Standard" is the bo3 always active event mode.
But they are named after a different schema and sorted randomly in the list.
All game modes (except "play") are standard game modes, so why are some game modes tagged with "standard" and others not?
Everything in this list is confusing!
Appreciate your feedback on the game mode names.
Everything that is Standard is labeled Standard. Modes that are focused on Historic we plan to label Historic.
Traditional means means that it matches tabletop Magic, especially that it is Best of 3, while Best of 1 is the default.
Play and Bot Match say neither Standard nor Historic, since both kinds of decks are welcome. (These modes are also part of the NPE, where players are far more likely to not know format terminology names.)
We do sometimes take some liberties with specialty mode names. Standard Metagame Challenge for instance doesn't say Traditional because we want to help sell the theme of that event (The risk of elimination is high, but there are great rewards if you aren't!) and there is limited characters available to use in the event name.
Agree the sorting needs work, this is something we want to address.
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