Magic The Gathering: Arena Dev Tracker

We're going to start off by favoring competitive, meta-relevant cards (because those are more likely to matter to more people), but will work our way down over time. We don't want to stop with just "competitive staples", and we're well aware of the dangers of delivering "this moment's meta" and saying we made it.

Cards (and packet themes) will be removed when they rotate out.

Jump In will be updated with SNC; we add a new set of packets with each new frontlist set.

I hope Alchemy Horizons: Baldur's Gate will help scratch that itch! #wotc_staff

It is the unfortunate fate of all last-of-the-rotational-year sets that their time with us is so short. Let us remember it fondly...

That won't be happening, I'm afraid. Once it gets close enough to rotation, we stop running Quick Drafts of the sets that are about to rotate out, so we are skipping AFR and going straight to the sets that will remain in Standard and Alchemy after the fall.

From: https://magic.wizards.com/en/mtgarena/drop-rates

"Each Alchemy booster contains Uncommon, Rare, and Mythic Rare cards from the Alchemy set and Common cards from the related base set. Once you have collected a playset of all of the Rare cards in the Alchemy set, the Rare slot will pull from your uncollected Rares from the base set. The same is also true for Mythic Rares."

The rates of rare and mythic wildcards inserted into the rare slot of any pack are the same.

See: https://magic.wizards.com/en/mtgarena/drop-rates (Rate of 1:30 for both)

That's true. Unlimited was far less common than Revised, so that did not come to mind. I'll update my comment.

Revised (3rd Edition) was the last edition to NOT have the copyright line under the artist's name at the bottom of the card. If you have a white-bordered card with only the artist's name at the bottom, then you have a Revised card.

Edit: Unlimited is also white boardered. As acfranks pointed out "If there is no black keyline and the colour frame has a "bevelled" edge, then it's Unlimited edition." Revised is also the first edition to use the tap symbol.

Nothing specific to share yet, but it's not, like, right around the corner. There are a lot of pieces to that puzzle because it deals with cards and decks rather than just cosmetic items; it just felt worth calling out because it's all part of how players get to present themselves in game, and we know players are very interested in it.

Just to be clear, a Blood Artist pointed at yourself still gains you the life back, so it's almost always a wash that results in no change to the board state. This change does mean that you can't be forced to kill yourself if the opponent has, say, both Shalai and a Rampaging Ferocidon, but that's such a narrow case that we feel it's well worth it for the improved play experience.

We act on players for roping regularly (about once a month currently). Actions vary from full bans to temp suspensions to just warnings, depending on how commonly the player ropes.

Player reports are a factor there, but we also have good data tracking we can use to find offenders without reports (i.e. if you let the timer expire before you lose, we can see that clearly in the data and will warn/ban you depending on how often it happens).

Banned cards are always in a draft pool. For any rebalanced cards you will draft and play with the original (unrebalanced) version, but receive both versions in your collection.

We are still figuring out what happened here, but I don't think there is even a dev-facing setting to choose that could cause this. The reward display is (supposed to be) determined directly from the way the rewards are given. To be honest, I didn't even think it was possible to have the event giving rewards one way (in this case, only at the end) and displaying them another, but hey, we learn something new every day.

As to "why events," well, even when it's not a new previously-impossible behavior, they involve tons of different pieces of data and pass through multiple hands on the way to the user. Even at a low error rate, over a large enough data set, some loose ends happen. We're always finding new ways to improve the process and make things more error-proof, but the nature of development is to also be constantly inventing new types of errors to make.

Oh, and events are also highly player-facing - moreso than almost any element of the game, other than t...

I know it's popular to demonize the company, but that's a pretty rude backhanded comment, and I don't appreciate it.

Those "+"s are a visual glitch - you only get 100 gold total, as long as you finish with at least 1 win. (Sorry about that, the UI wasn't supposed to be part of the foolin'.)

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.

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.

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.