Magic The Gathering: Arena

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06 Jul

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There are some changes we need to make to this scene, that I hopefully have some time for soon.

- Remove the colors. Regardless of how you read the colors, we are introducing bias by making them two different colors. That and our game is conditioned on the "orange" button being the one we are highlighting for you to press in general - so it's not a good way to get an unbiased sample.

- Also, the order should be randomized. Having the button on the same side every time also introduces bias, that's why presidential ballots are randomly ordered.


05 Jul


04 Jul

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I certainly believe it. I'll take a look on Monday. #wotc_staff

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Originally posted by Azriel82

You think that's annoying? Doing t:rat, t:"rat", or "rat" still pulls up every damn pirate card!

try this:
t:rat -t:pirate -t:angrath


03 Jul


02 Jul

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Originally posted by mooseman3

I don't know the official reason it's B rather than K, but [[Dark Ritual]] adding KKK was probably something they wanted to avoid.

http://dtwtranscripts.blogspot.com/2013/05/52413-episode-35-blue.html

This is Maro's reasoning:

" Oh, real quickly. Why do we do that? I’ve talked about this in my column, but for those that haven’t heard me say it, when first Richard made the cards, the problem was that black and blue both start with B. So why not go to L then? Well, land—which we used to—card colors are used to signify the border, the kind of card it’s on. And so land has its own border. So L is for land. Well why not go to A for black? Well, A is artifact. And so U was the first we could get to in either of them, so we ended ...

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Originally posted by Evarre

I can send log latter if it will help, already closed pc and forget about this file. Iirc i did log at moment i found land doesnt work correct

No, I understand what the issue is. Most delayed triggered abilities clean themselves up the first time they are triggered, and it's relatively new that it was even POSSIBLE for a single activation of Primal Wellspring to want to result in multiple triggers.

There actually is some hope we'll be able to fix this in time, so yay! #wotc_staff

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That should be pointing to the rotation/renewal info from our last State of the Game: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-digital/mtg-arena-state-game-june-2020-06-23#rotation

Hopefully we'll get that link updated soon, but that's the info it should be giving. (And no, we're not spoiling the upcoming set names)

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See my response here. Should be fixed soon. #wotc_staff

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Thanks for the report! I have an idea for how to fix this, but unfortunately we just passed the window for changes for the next release, so it may be a while before a fix goes live. #wotc_staff

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Thanks for the report! I've got it fixed in-dev now. The issue came from the "you may" - the "should we check for target revalidation now" code was accidentally requiring you to have already answered that question! #wotc_staff

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Currently investigating the problem.

We had a crash when specific cards were the stack in some languages that we just patched last weekend. This looks like it could be something similar. I know it's not a great solution, but playing in English should stop the crashes until we have a fix.

Thanks for posting these videos, it's helping us figure out what's going on.

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Well... darn it. Thanks for pointing this out.

I love Abzan and cats, so I'm not sure why my brain decided to put blue in there.


01 Jul

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Originally posted by quillypen

Have you folks learned anything useful from it? Like the kinds of games that tend to make both players happy?

Absolutely. We also especially pay attention to cases where winners come away more "sad" than usual or losers are especially "happy." (Just recently, the Mastermind workshop fell into both categories, which is an interesting case.)

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@EverKira:

Hey [[58194,users]] do you have any news on when the next update is coming and if they are going to be addressing the people who are unable to play since Core 2021 dropped 5 days ago?

Unfortunately no new news yet. Sorry. :disappointed:

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Originally posted by PvP_Noob

I think fun is highly dependent on whether you won or not, not the quality of the game.

When you get the survey, your opponent always does, too. We divide the responses by the game result, because as you guessed, winners tend to be happy more frequently.


30 Jun

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@vulcanlogician:

I can understand why they don't create an off topic board. That'd be more trouble than it's worth-- for users and for WotC.
One thing we might try is creating a thread just for people to post their account usernames with the intention to play casual games. I know there is already a pinned thread for general matchmaking... a thread where we can post stuff like, "Hey, I am looking to play off-meta stuff, etc." But I've gotten mixed results from it. I specifically said I prefer brews in my post and that netdecks were cool but no top-tier nonsense. But people who friended me seem to be split into 2 categories. People who bring stuff like Temur Rec to duel me with, and people with starter decks.
So maybe we could create a new thread just for casual/off meta seekers, and then ask if it can be pinned. Now, we already have the one pinned thread devoted to direct challenge connections, so, unless the new thread gains ...
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