Magic The Gathering: Arena Dev Tracker

Folders are definitely an often requested feature - but we've been thinking more about custom tagging on decks as a solution to some of the organization problems. Reasoning: it wouldn't require a refactor of the page and it could be more powerful than folders - each deck would only be in one folder but could have multiple tags.

Local deck store sounds neat. You probably wouldn't be able to play a deck until you moved it onto the server, but I could see having a page of stored decks. This would still require some refactoring of the manager, because right now it loads all of your decks at once. Maybe as just a filesystem function? I'll look take a look at it, but no promises. :)

An unintended consequence of adding the "View Battlefield" button after the match. We're working on getting it fixed but I don't know the ETA, because it's not my team.

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When we moved deck favorites to the server (initially they were only saved locally) an unintended consequence was that the deck builder ended up squashing them when it saved the deck.

I fixed this last week, so it should be in the next big update.

Check to see if you have 16 cards in the sideboard (including a companion). I just fixed this bug, but it won't be released for a bit.

Because we don’t want players to feel like they’re “losing out” on their constructed rank if they want to play both. If they were separate, a player that wanted to climb the ranks would need to pick one at the start of each season and stick with that. We think it’s better to allow them to go back and forth however they want, making progress on the same rank the whole time.

I can vouch that this is the same shawt from that account, and that he works on Arena with me. And also that he plays a lot of silly jank.

The refund process is now complete; anyone who bought at the 80% discount got refunded gold/gems to make up the difference to the 91% discount.

Working on it. There’s actually a few tech bits we need to do this (lands work differently than styles in various ways), but it’s something we’d like to do.

Thanks for writing this out, we love kitchen table magic too! (I was just brewing an Act of Treason / Lukka / Yidaro deck with one of our producers for play queue shenanigans) Many of the ideas you listed have been part of our conversations, so I think hopefully, we are on the same wavelength with how we will end up solving these problems in the future.

One thing I mentioned in another thread is the idea of being careful with specific daily quests because they can affect the meta. That's why a lot of them seem "vanilla". For example: we tried out some more focused ones - like "Create X Tokens" - and it pushed players towards making token generating decks with no win condition, which wasn't fun for anyone. I personally think it would be fun to have achievements someday that function like the quests you are talking about, but are achievable only once.

Thanks again for the feedback. See you around!

But the incentive to get more cards is shared by Johnny, Timmy and Spike. Timmy needs those cards to get big creatures, and Johnny needs diversity to build his jank.

I still love these archetypes and think about them a lot as I work on the game. It's cool that they are public knowledge, and that players can use them to talk about design in an informed way.

I agree that there is a real need to provide a healthy reward structure for players who are looking for fun, "kitchen-table" games of magic. I don't have any solutions to share, but I will tell you it's something we are currently talking about in leadership and design meetings. This is a great thread and reading people's responses definitely informs our opinions. Thanks for reposting it!

Yeah, that seems lame. I have Unity open right now so I'll see if it's a quick fix.

No promises; there are sometimes UX patterns that are to make sure users don't get lost. I wouldn't want someone to think "Where'd my decks go?", but it sounds fine in theory.

The problem with less "vanilla" quests is that they shape the meta more than we like.

We tried a "Create X Tokens" quest and people were playing decks with all token generation and no win condition. It wasn't fun for them or for their opponents, and it also wasn't really a game of Magic anymore.

I think you're thinking more in the Achievements space. Those would definitely be fun to do once or twice, but not every day. If we ever do an achievement system, we will definitely include some quests with more interesting conditions.

We have added tracker support for picks and scene transitions in this release. Next release should have tracking for all the rest of the cards in the pack (probably what you are actually interested in). Sorry, this is taking longer than than it should have.

I don't have the specifics of the log messages in front of me, but I could find it if you still need it.

See if you have 16 cards in your sideboard. There is currently a bug in which we don't warn you when you have 16 cards in your sideboard (including the companion).

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There are a bunch of us that are active on Reddit, so commenting and voicing your concerns here isn't a bad place for feedback.

Re: Daily play rewards. We are currently looking at some solutions for Daily / Weekly rewards that don't as heavily incentivize wins versus play. No schedule for when these changes would take place, but we are talking about it and looking at feedback and data from players. Thanks for letting us know!