Magic The Gathering: Arena Dev Tracker

Hello lincolnic,

I'm sorry I can't provide a solution or much of an update about these issues, but I will send this feedback over to the team working on ports. If you could send me a log from one of these crashes to my direct messages, that would help them diagnose what is going on.

In general, I personally try to comment on things that I have expertise in (the parts of the client outside of the match), and the community is unable to answer themselves. I'm pretty sure Lee, Jay, and Ben who also frequent Reddit are the same way. So if you don't hear anything from us, it's probably because we aren't confident enough to give an answer about it, other users are getting the correct information out there, or we simply missed the thread.

Thanks for writing this up, I appreciate the time you put into making sure we know about the issue. I can't make any promises about when it will be addressed, but I can make sure the correct people are aware of the situation. Hop...

We fixed some of the causes, but there are still a few causes out there that we're working on. You can find more info here. Sorry for the inconvenience!

Dogs are actually running (very slightly) ahead across all players.

Kind of. Priority is based on the seriousness of the issue (which makes this one pretty bad), not report volume. But more reports gives us more info (other cases to check, more logs, a better/different/fuller description of the repro steps, etc), so it does end up helping us solve the bug more quickly. Please, I’m really serious, file bug reports and include logs. (On M21 launch day, support was talking back and forth with several players running into issues. One of them reported a problem, sent a log (which wasn’t that helpful for this issue because it didn’t have detailed logging on), then sent another log when they hit the same bug later and they had turned detailed logging on to capture more info! That player is a genius and a hero.)

In any case, we believe we have this issue fixed and will be releasing an update soon.

Short version: Yes, you get wildcards for bans in Standard or Historic.

Longer version: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-digital/historic-suspension-announcement-2019-12-10

Mirrors are a tiny percentage, the system has a strong bias against them.

Edit: Correction, there are a non-trivial number of Cat mirrors due to more people selecting Cats than Dogs.

But anyway, the 51%/49% holds when limited to Dogs vs. Cats games.

The two decks win percentages are 51% and 49% so far, so it's very possible to win or lose with either.

Yeah, that Uncollected checkbox can really trip you up. We need a better solution for saving whether a user wants it on or off by default. There are actually 3 user stories with competing needs:

New User: Wants Uncollected off because they don't own very many cards and they want to make a deck with the cards they have.

Advanced User: Wants Uncollected on because they have a large collection and will craft what they are missing.

Uber Power User: Has all of the cards and wants Uncollected off to hide Planeswalker deck cards.

Thanks for posting your experience, it's something we are working on!

I don't think you can import it even if you did have it, but I might be mistaken. I will see what I can do about that.

I didn't write the original system, but I did write the simple text decklist importer. In general, I like having both. Relying on something to be spelled 100% correctly over 8 languages is pretty brittle. The CNs are written right on the card, so there really shouldn't be that many mistakes with them. Mostly, I use the simple text one myself because you can hand-edit it easier.

Import doesn't return styled cards right now, I can see about handling that situation and replacing with unstyled versions depending on ownership.

Set + CN is better for foreign languages because it will ignore misspelled names as of the 1.09 release. The only problem I see is the using promo CNs (full art cards, etc.), we do track them by CN, but there is some work to make the import treat them as actual cards.

In general, these are the formats that will work with import:

Number + Name:
4 Basri Ket

Number + Name + (SET) + Collector Number:
4 Basri Ket (M21) 7

You can misspell the name if everything else is right:
4 Bazzri Khet (M21) 7

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Here's what won't work:

Name + only SET or CN
4 Basri Ket (M21)
4 Basri Ket 7

Correct name, wrong SET/CN:
4 Basri Ket (M20) 78

Xs after the number:
4x Basri Ket (M21) 7

Collector Number is for a promo card or different style:
1x Basri Ket (M21) 280

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There are two formats for deck sections. Each section must be separated by an empty line.

Unlabeled (or incorrectly labeled)
1st section is Maindeck, 2nd is the sideboard

Labeled (above section)
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