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Game Update Highlights

  • Festival of Adventure - Earn Zendikar Rising showcase card styles by participating in these limited time events!
  • New pets and cosmetic items in store, including the Black Lotus pet and Euro Lands.
  • Gameplay improvements and bug fixes!

General

Gameplay

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  • You can now group select blockers for creatures with Menace.
    • . . . Yes, we know this is one of the most obvious times to want to group select blockers.
    • Yes, we were frustrated too.
  • The loop detector is now better at discerning when a loop is actually going somewhere and what the final game state will be.
    • Say your opponent has 100 life and you have a very s l o w Vito/Exquisite Blood combo ticking away. You'll be able to get there!
  • Mousing over either player's hand/graveyard/exile to display zone counts now displays the counts for both players.
    • Now you can check who is winning the mill race without moving your mouse!
  • We've tweaked the way we display text so cards are much less likely to overflow the type line, or require you to scroll.
    • Obviously if you add a ton of text via enchantments, mutate, etc. you'll scroll as normal.
  • Replacement effects that are going to move a card to another zone (battlefield, exile, etc.) are now weighted to, by default, come earlier than other replacement effects.
  • Cards with a "must be blocked" annotation that only applies "this combat" now get a hanger just like cards that "must be blocked" forever.
  • Ability text on the stack now only changes color if there are two distinct abilities with distinct targets.
  • Mana icons in card text and back-side hint boxes are now bottom aligned. (We think this looks nicer, personally.)
  • We've added confirmation for discarding, even when you select the max number of cards.

Cards

  • Demonic Pact now has a checklist hanger showing which modes have been selected.
  • The prompt displayed when an opponent's Honden of Night's Reach activates now lists the number of cards to discard.

Decks and Collection

  • When you disconnect or unexpectedly exit while building a deck, you can return to the deckbuilder to resume your progress where you left off.

Events

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Quick Draft Schedule

  • October 16 - October 30: Theros Beyond Death
  • October 30 - November 13: Zendikar Rising
  • November 13 - November 27: Throne of Eldraine

Premier Draft Schedule

  • September 17 - Winter 2020: Zendikar Rising
  • October 23 - October 30: Throne of Eldraine
  • October 30 - November 6: Theros Beyond Death
  • November 6 - November 12: Ikoira: Lair of Behemoths

FNM Home Schedule

Note: FNM Home begins the Thursday before at 4:00pm Pacific (23:00 UTC)

  • October 16: Historic Brawl
  • October 23: Play Anything
  • October 30: Super Standard
  • November 5: Brawl

Festival of Adventure

  • October 17 - October 20: Zendikar World Tour
  • October 24 - October 26: Cascade Singleton
  • November 1 - November 4: Mastermind
  • November 7 - November 12: On The Edge ("Mini Standard")

The Arena Open

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IMPORTANT NOTE: Daylight Saving Time may affect join windows for this events. Please observe join times carefully if your live in a region where the clocks adjust on November 1!

  • October 31: Arena Open Day 1. Standard Best-of-One or Best-of-Three
  • November 1: Arena Open Day 2. Standard Best-of-Three
    • Players may qualify for the Day 2 event using either Day 1 event. See complete rules for details.

Store

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Now Available

Bundles

Black Lotus Bundle

  • Black Lotus Pet
  • Black Lotus Exquisite Sleeve

Price: 3,500 Gems or 17,500 Gold

Euro Land Bundle 1

  • Plains - Ben Thompson
  • Island - Eric Peterson
  • Swamp - Kev Walker
  • Mountain - Kev Walker
  • Forest - Kev Walker

Price: 2,500 Gems or 12,500 Gold

Euro Land Bundle 2

  • Plains - Eric Peterson
  • Island - Ben Thompson
  • Swamp - Mike Ploog
  • Mountain - Eric Peterson
  • Forest - Mike Ploog

Price: 2,500 Gems or 12,500 Gold

Euro Land Bundle 3

  • Plains - Mike Ploog
  • Island - Ben Thompson
  • Swamp - Scott Bailey
  • Mountain - Scott Bailey
  • Forest - Scott Bailey

Price: 2,500 Gems or 12,500 Gold

Individual items in the Store

Pets - Black Lotus

3,000 Gems or 20,000 Gold

Sleeve - Black Lotus Exquisite Sleeve
1,200 Gems

Card Styles

Now available for purchase (through the Deckbuilder):

  • Pestilent Haze
  • Speaker of the Heavens

Leaving Soon

  • Zendikar Borderless Planeswalkers
  • Green Showcase Bundle
  • Elementals Showcase Bundle
  • Borderless Pathway Bundle
  • Basic Lands - Return to Ravnica
  • Basic Lands - Rise of the Eldrazi

Bug Fixes

Note: Response emotes (Oops/Sorry, Nice/Thanks) are temporarily disabled. They will return soon!

  • There is now a server-side throttle on hover messages, which should prevent them from slowing down either player's ability to respond.
  • Dreadhorde Arcanist no longer allows playing the land side of an modal double-faced card (MDFC).
  • "Favorite" decks will remain favorited after editing the deck.
  • The Ashiok avatar from the FNM codes should now appear properly
  • Nethroi's mutate trigger can now target creatures with negative Power, which is a thing that can exist.
  • Fixed a bug that could cause some browser buttons to become unresponsive after displaying a large amount of triggers.
  • Kicked and non-kicked displays for Sea Gate Stormcaller triggered ability no longer stack in the display
  • Fixed collision on the Amonkhet Remastered battlefield, which means click impacts and intention lines work properly again







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