I'm guessing because the discount on having part of the bundle wasn't applying correctly. Other people were saying it was the same flat cost no matter how many of them they already had.
This is correct. It wasn't discounting for they styles already in your collection. It should be back next week, once we've fixed the issue
There is an issue we are actively investigating.
Question: are we expecting any card in the new Historic Anthology to be pioneer legal (therefore legal in explorer)?
No. The cards from HA6 are only legal in Historic. If you only want Explorer stuff, you only need EA1.
What are the odds that there's a typo in the Announcement?
Additional Premier Drafts
- July 22-28: Innistrad: Midnight Hunt
- July 28-August 2: Innistrad: Midnight Hunt
Shouldn't the second one be Innistrad: Crimson Vow? Why would they list Midnight Hunt twice?
Second one there should be VOW, as you say. We'll get it corrected in the article.
Before rotation each year we refresh the 10 dual-color starter decks and ensure that all players have the cards needed to play them (so everyone always has decks they can play in the rotating formats). You're probably seeing the new cards added for that, and you can find those new decks in your Starter Decks folder.
See the "New Player Decks" section here for more info on that: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-digital/mtg-arena-renewal-rotation
As others here said, this is a bug and nothing intentional. We're working to get it fixed soon.
Thanks for the report! This was not an intentional change and we're looking into it.
Well, it's not called "Adventures in the Remembered Realms"... (We'll find it!)
Is seek random?
As the reminder text reads:
To seek a card, put one at random from your library into your hand.
If i somehow manage to exile a permanent card with signature spells i still won't be able to cast a copy every upkeep right? I assume this is one of those "linked" abilities?
Correct. "Exiled with" is pretty strong evidence of a linked ability. #wotc_staff
Read moreHello reddit! I'm Ben Finkel, a software developer who's been working on the MTG Arena Rules Engine for over five years. This is a card that I designed! It'll be in the Alchemy Horizons: Baldur's Gate (HBG) release.
I designed this card in my favorite weekly meeting, the Card Design Workshop. This is a sort of "club" that any WotC employee who is interested in MTG card design may attend to flex their creative muscles.
Each week we get a prompt for some design hole that needs new ideas. On August 13, 2021, the workshop got this prompt:
Card details: A blue rare enchantment, instant, or sorcery. Its name is “Signature Spells.” We’re looking for a top-down design of a Wizard ability in D&D. From the D&D manual: “You gain mastery over two powerful Spells and can cast them with little effort. Choose two 3rd-level Wizard Spells as your signature Spells.”
(Plus that the card is intended to be a digital design)
This was my original proposal, which ...
By the way I'm on vacation this week in Iceland so my responses may not be punctual.
the set code is YCLB not HBG
I'm really not sure where YCLB came from. HBG is what the set is called in Arena, i.e. how you can search for it in the deck builder. #wotc_staff
Hello reddit! I'm Ben Finkel, a software developer who's been working on the MTG Arena Rules Engine for over five years. This is a card that I designed! It'll be in the Alchemy Horizons: Baldur's Gate (HBG) release.
I designed this card in my favorite weekly meeting, the Card Design Workshop. This is a sort of "club" that any WotC employee who is interested in MTG card design may attend to flex their creative muscles.
Each week we get a prompt for some design hole that needs new ideas. On August 13, 2021, the workshop got this prompt:
Card details: A blue rare enchantment, instant, or sorcery. Its name is “Signature Spells.” We’re looking for a top-down design of a Wizard ability in D&D. From the D&D manual: “You gain mastery over two powerful Spells and can cast them with little effort. Choose two 3rd-level Wizard Spells as your signature Spells.”
(Plus that the card is intended to be a digital design)
This was m...
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It is how Scryfall was handling Alchemy sets. "A" was already taken by Art Series cards.
I think Wizards calls it HBG.
And that stands for (Alchemy) Horizons Baldur's Gate. #wotc_staff
Did it really need to gain "can't block" in this perpetual way with that much text? Why can't each one just have "~ can't block" written right on the card? And why can't these block anyway? It is not a repeatable effect since these specializations can't specialize again.
She only can't block if you Specialize her from the graveyard. She can Specialize without penalty from the battlefield as normal. #wotc_staff
hopefully there's not too many reprints from adventures...that will be a real feels bad man to open same rares/mythics we already collected. the commons and uncommons are ok, but still don't want oops all Adventures in Forgotten Realms set.
The AFR reprints are exclusively common & uncommon. A 1v1 draft wants different staples than Commander draft.
When can we expect to see Modern
We use Modern to scare the Cardset team into line when they get rowdy.
This is interesting insight.
I assumed the number of players would directly correlate to how easy / difficult it is to get into a format.
A format like Historic being much harder to get into compared to Explorer for example. But I guess this is only relevant to new players. A tenured player would most likely already have the cards to play either.
Also when you are talking about "main formats" are you including Alchemy in this as well? Just curious ;)
Yes, that's among Standard/Historic/Alchemy/Explorer. These are the "major" supported constructed formats in the client.
is this counting Historic Brawl as part of Historic? Because otherwise, while it's definitely possible and I'd believe your numbers over user submitted ones, this does seem suspect. I really don't know anyone who still plays Historic outside of Historic Brawl.
No, this is looking at the primary constructed formats. Brawl and Historic Brawl games are divided out separately. We serve a lot of different types of players!
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