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Foundations is meant to introduce new players to the game. New people just starting in Arena gets a bunch of cards to play with.
Not sure if these will be the same as the current Starter Decks and have a mix of cards from all Standard sets or these will just be Foundation cards.
All of the cards in these decks came from Foundations. There are likely some that are reprints of cards already on Arena, but they're totally different than the current dual-color starter decks.
I wonder if these will be in starter deck duel.
They will be, but not yet. These will become our new player decks soon, but making a new set of starter decks takes some real time for balance, complexity tuning, etc. Once we get the time to do that with these decks, we'll move them over to be the rewards from the new player experience and the decks used in Starter Deck Duels.
Those versions will likely be slightly different from these initial versions, but hopefully close. We wanted to give out these early versions now, since players will get the most benefit from the new cards that way.
Some feedback / a request on starter decks Jay: it’d be cool if you picked up the physical decks and entered the code to get them in Arena if they could be played in the starter deck duel mode. It’s a bit sad having to play these in Alchemy or Standard queues where they are outclassed. But I don’t think anyone would mind selecting Saddle Up and getting paired against Otter Limits for instance. Or even one of the 2023 or Lord of the Rings starter kit decks.
That's a good idea! I'm not sure we can do exactly that with our existing tech, but I'll bring it up with the Events team