Magic The Gathering: Arena Dev Tracker

Are you stuck in a loop of crashes, or were you able to get in properly after the one?

True Facts. This is not the Sparky fix, which we're still working to deliver. Getting this release out was part of what's blocking that, but there's one other thing we need to resolve.

We're seeing this in our post-release data (though we didn't see it in our testing). Can you give me any details on your phone model or Android version? Did you update from the prior version or was this a fresh install?

Log file is fine. We can pull the data on the match if we need it (how many times your opponent roped, etc.), which is easier & faster than reviewing a video

I don't think we've ever said that, and if someone did they were wrong. The main way we penalize this behavior is through automated detection & banning (it's easy for a computer/script to identify players acting like OP describes), but we do use conduct reports as well

I have a Royal Assassin sitting right behind me, framed alongside some other favorites from those early days (an Icy Manipulator and a Hippy)

Yes, all Special Guests are coming to Arena. As usual, there may be some cards that are pre-banned or pre-restricted in different formats, based on power level.

Hi all,

Seeing some questions around this so wanted to provide guidance:

1. Yes - we sent out emails with 2023 stats (both some personal highlights and community stats!) yesterday. As others have mentioned, we also send these out for each frontlist set.
2. If you did not receive the email and would like to:
   1. Make sure you are signed up for Wizards promotional emails (log in at https://myaccounts.wizards.com/account and click 'Edit Profile' and ensure the 'YES! Wizards may send me promotional emails...' box is checked).
   2. Submit a request via https://mtgarena-support.wizards.c...

The latter one - Your answers (or skipping) won't have any direct impact on your play experience, but we use them to do things like understand how much different players like different types Mid-Week Magic events, etc.

I'll pass that on, thanks!

Backlist packs (like STX, MOM, WOE, etc.) should be getting their collation adjusted with MKM's release. Fetchlands currently appear as normal in KTK packs.

You'll want to sit on those WOE packs a little bit longer :)

33.10 was a services-only update, yes. No new client to download

The specialize thing is a bit of a hack, agreed. A- for Alchemy cards was carefully considered, though. It would have been easy to add versioning to our data model, but think of all the different places you encounter Magic decklists - random websites, screenshots, simple text files, etc. There's no way to add versioning support to all of those, so we wanted a solution that was backwards compatible with all the ways Magic decklists get used. Leveraging a change to the name there seemed like the cleanest approach, given the full constraint set.

Short version, since (given holidays) I'm not sure when/if we'll get a longer article out:
With the KTK/Timeless release we added support for the restricted list. As part of this, we added a new chunk of logic to our deck validation code to look over each card in the deck, check whether it was restricted, and, if so, check that it met the count restrictions.

While doing this check, the code makes the seemingly simple assumption that everything in your deck is a card. Now, this sounds silly - what else would you put in your deck that's not a card? But, internally, we have a lot of data that looks & acts like a card, but isn't really a card. Tokens are an obvious example, but there are also things like the spell portion of an Adventure card, or something like Ribbons (from Amonkhet's Cut // Ribbons), or the back side of a traditional double-faced card, etc. There are lots of these, but they shouldn't ever be part of a deck directly. You don't put Stomp in your ...

This sounds like a separate issue from the one we fixed, which was a fully consistent lockout (would never connect no matter how many tries).

Is it possible that there is something wrong with the internet connection on your Mac?

We've got a hopeful fix for DC issues in this release as well! We've had trouble repro'ing the issue, and though we've gotten some issues to repro now, we're not sure we're seeing exactly what players are. We've fixed at least one bug that could cause the problem you describe, so give it another shot and let us know how it goes.