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I just launched Arena and it installed an update. After the update, it's telling me all of my Standard Brawl decks have illegal cards in them. Specifically, it's mad about the cards in the Arena Basic Set, as well as Command Tower and Arcane Signet, which it had no problem with this morning.

E.g.,

- Shessra (Command Tower, Murder)

- Grazilaxx (Unsummon, Zephyr Gull, Riddlemaster Sphinx)

- Tatsunari (Ilysian Caryatid, Arcane Signet, Command Tower)

- Ao (Arcane Signet)

- Kodama (Ilysian Caryatid, Colossal Majesty)

I'm really confused. I don't see anything posted anywhere saying that they've changed the legality for Brawl.

I didn't see another thread about this. Is anybody else seeing the same thing when they try to hop in the Standard Brawl queue?

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over 2 years ago - /u/WotC_Jay - Direct link

With this release we removed the Arena Base Set cards from Standard legality and moved them to only being legal in our digital-only formats (Alchemy, Historic, Historic Brawl, etc.). This makes Standard exactly match tabletop in both best-of-one and best-of-three. Brawl uses Standard legality, so cards like Murder or Zephyr Gull are no longer allowed because they're not in Standard.

I think the Brawl format staples should be explicitly allowed, however. We'll get cards like Arcane Signet and Command Tower added back soon.

over 2 years ago - /u/WotC_Jay - Direct link

Originally posted by captain_spud

Was this change announced anywhere? I don't see any patch notes for today's update.

I'm mostly in favour of removing the beginner set cards, but it's super confusing to log in and see your decks listed as being illegal with no indication of why. :/

Agreed, and sorry for the confusion. This was supposed to be in the State of the Game, but unfortunately got left out. It's a change I think most people will like, but making it confusing certainly doesn't help perception :(

over 2 years ago - /u/WotC_Jay - Direct link

Originally posted by hard2break157

Hey Jay! Also, Sparky won't let you play against her if you use any rebalanced card. Is that also something you're working on?

Yup, that’s something we’re working to enable

over 2 years ago - /u/WotC_Jay - Direct link

Originally posted by stroggoii

You better offer wildcards for this. It pretty much killed Goblins decks and anyone who started playing recently just lost 6/10 of the starter decks.

The fact all these changes pretty much push people into the Alchemy queue doesn't look good either.

Took a bit to get going, but we are now doing a grant to return the Rare wildcards spent on ANB cards. This should be complete by Friday.

over 2 years ago - /u/WotC_Jay - Direct link

Originally posted by StuffOverload22

So when do I get refunded the WCs for the base set cards I crafted to play in Standard?

Why didn't you guys make this change obvious in the UI? Like with a big popup notice saying "Your Arena Base set cards are now only legal in Alchemy"?

I could have gotten behind this change except for these two issues. As it is, I feel ripped off of WCs and frustrated with how it was rolled out. A friend of mine is a newer player and we spent way too long trying to figure out what happened and if it weren't for this sub, we'd probably still be mystified.

Took a bit to get going, but we are now doing a grant to return the Rare wildcards spent on ANB cards. This should be complete by Friday.

over 2 years ago - /u/WotC_Jay - Direct link

Originally posted by implode311

u/WotC_Jay Will we get refunded wild cards we used to construct copies of these cards? I burned wild cards based on the announcement that these cards would be standard legal. For example copies of goblin trashmaster for my standard b01 goblin deck. Now wotc is going back on their statement. It is super shady to remove cards and not compensate players.

Took a bit to get going, but we are now doing a grant to return the Rare wildcards spent on ANB cards. This should be complete by Friday.