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So, it used to totally ignore hybrid mana. Then it treated it like both colors. Now it treats it like the color or colors your deck is actually using it for.

This (and Historic UW Enchantments running Lurrus) was one of the main things we built the new rules to solve. The other place it really makes a difference is dual-color decks that run tri-lands.

Can you please clarify what scenario you're talking about? This seems different than the upthread discussion about casting facedown cards from exile. #wotc_staff

Hey Yasmin, thanks for the awesome and detailed post! As I'm sure you know, there are a lot of different ways players can have accessibility challenges, so getting clear reports of what's working well and what's working poorly for individual players is super valuable.

I'm following up with our art & engineering teams about the items you've mentioned (and others collected from the comments here), and we'll see what we can do. The specificity of your feedback ("here's my problem. It applies in these circumstances. Here's what I wish I could do") is very helpful in making it actionable.

You mentioned that you wanted to be able to turn off opponent card styles - You should be able to do this using Options->Gameplay->Hide Alternate Art Styles (bottom of the left-hand list on desktop). If that's not giving you the result you're looking for, please let me know why. We added that option back when we first implemented styles, partly to solve for cases like yours.

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This should be fixed now; anyone still seeing problems here?

This should be fixed now; anyone still seeing problems here?

Edit to add: If anyone is still running into this issue, please contact CS. We're interested in getting your playerIDs for further investigation

It sounds like there was a miscommunication as to your question.

Matching tabletop, you have a ~34% chance to get either a rare or a mythic Retro Artifact.

Again matching tabletop, within that 34%, your chances of getting a mythic instead of a rare are 20%.

Apologies that this information wasn't in the drop rates page. That was an oversight which we will get corrected.

For Commander balance issues in Historic Brawl we will almost always work to solve those with matchmaking tweaks before rebalances. We would use rebalances if we saw problems in other queues or if the matchmaking adjustments weren't working.

Rebalance notes are in the patch notes: https://mtgarena-support.wizards.com/hc/en-us/articles/12438205894164-Patch-Notes-2022-22-50

This is unintentional. We expect to have a fix out with the ONE cardset

Yesterday's update was about hardware adjustments to keep the backend stable. There were no changes to matchmaking itself.

The contents of all Golden Packs will change with ONE. Golden Packs in your inventory will contain the guaranteed ONE cards.

The counter is set-agnostic. Any progress you've earned from purchasing BRO packs will still be used toward acquiring Golden Packs as you purchase ONE packs.

Congrats!

Those are good options - we've looked before at, say, do people playing with or against color pair X report more/lower happiness. One of my favorite views with this data is "In which events/queues are players who lose reporting the highest fun scores?"

First messages should be going out in about 30 min (10 am PST). We wanted to give a cushion to make sure the release was up & stable.

There's a tiny bug with the anthology where it's not showing up for players who have purchased EA1. We're fixing that right now, and the bundle should be up soon.

Edit: Fixed now

Of course it matters. But both players matter, including the person who wants to play with Engine. In a casual format, players getting to do things they like carries extra value. It doesn't scale to all situations, but at least for the moment, we believe it applies here.

This comes up every now and then, so I don't mind checking in on the subject.

We currently have no plans to ban Paradox Engine in Historic Brawl.

Paradox Engine is banned in Commander (a format that shares a lot with HB), but the primary reasons for that banning do not directly carry over. The primary reasons for that ban were, one, Commander decks play a high density of mana rocks as a baseline due to other elements of the format. That means that having enough things to untap with Engine wasn't really a deckbuilding cost - everyone was doing it already. Historic Brawl has lower life totals and more aggression in general, so these cards are not as prevalent or "required" - it's an intentional choice for players to build a deck that can take advantage of Engine.

Two, when a Commander player starts comboing off, they are taking up three other people's time, who are all under social pressure to stick around even if they aren't enjoying themselves. The ...

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