Even if you believe that standard is the best it has ever been, isn't the main advantage of FNM at home to create a queue that you know people will sign up for, and as such you can spotlight more niche formats like artisan or historic pauper or momir?
The standard play queue is always available. Why waste this opportunity with a format that is already available elsewhere in the client?
External link →We sometimes use FNM to spotlight niche formats, and sometimes we use it to focus interest on something coming up on the schedule - like this weekend's Grand Finals, where Standard is one of the main formats.
(We also just generally try to rotate what's in FNM so that all kinds of players get exposed to all kinds of things. There are players in Arena who don't play much Standard, even though it's a regular queue, and we want them to see new stuff as much as anyone else.)
I hadn't considered the possiblility that this was a Grand Finals cross-promotion, but that does make sense in retrospect. Does that mean we should expect more explicit advertising of the Grand Finals in the client?
I believe there will be a link to the event coverage in the rotating gallery that you see on the home page (like 80% confidence).
I don't play standard right now as its degenerate. I'm not having fun in the FNM queue, I just want it over. Is this what you're trying to show me?
I'm sorry to hear that, and we never want to put players in a situation that is purely unpleasant. Frankly, if we had known when we were scheduling this (which was before ZNR even came out!) what we know now about how people feel about the current format, we would have probably done something different.
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