Magic The Gathering: Arena Dev Tracker

What can I say, our release schedule is weird. The fix isn't live yet, but it will be pretty soon. #wotc_staff

I coded up a fix a little while back, but it's not live yet. It should be going up in our next update (as it just got promoted to trunk yesterday). #wotc_staff

Thanks for the report. I'll look into it. We've been having trouble with that dang Wildbonder... #wotc_staff

Most of our dev budget is going towards player-v-player interactions at the moment. It's definitely a fascinating subject, though. I wish I had the time and domain knowledge to mess around with it.

Adding features that require new UI is actually a lot more difficult than tweaking Sparky's match parameters. That said, manabase testing is something I have personally used when building decks online before Arena, and I can see some utility in adding it. No promises of when (or if) we would work on something like that, but I will put it on the design backlog.

All decks in the Heroes workshops are decks from actual players that went for 7 wins on the live server. (I don't think we differentiate between 7-0/7-1/7-2, though.)

This was really a victim of how quickly language develops. We weren't on guard to differentiate between a solid deck with some cycling synergy layered on top for extra kick vs. the extremely specific set of cards that players now refer to as "The Cycling Deck." Given how that label is now used, I would have chosen a different name for this deck in hindsight.

Anyway, even if the deck is somewhat unconventional, it still got 7 wins!

Cool idea! I have worked on her A.I. a bit and I can give you some insight.

The current version of Sparky needs to be taught how to use each card individually. We've done some work this year to make this easier, and more robust, so we could better make the Color Challenge games - but adding new cards to her decks usually involves a bit of work. This mostly revolves around telling her what are the legal targets. The bigger problem for your suggested feature: there are a lot of cards we don't use because she has no idea how to use them.

I would like to have the ability to "test" a limited deck against her. Especially, if I'm working with a wonky mana base. I've seen a few threads asking for that so I put it on our backlog. It will have to be costed and prioritized with everything else, but I hope it's simple to add. If it does get implemented, more than likely, Sparky will just be using her normal 60 card decks.

Hopefully, that answers your question!

Do you have automatic trigger sorting enabled? It is on by default. You can disable it in gameplay options. That should allow you to sort which trigger you want to resolve first. #wotc_staff

Basic lands have an activated ability: for example, Plains have "{oT}: Add {oW}." #wotc_staff

Hey there everyone. Just to clear up any potential confusion: When we first talked about Jumpstart we mentioned that it will contain some Standard-legal cards (reprints from recent sets and M21) in addition to some brand new cards. No cards will enter Standard through Jumpstart. Additionally, all the cards in Jumpstart that come to MTG Arena will be added to Historic. Hope that clears things up!