Magic The Gathering: Arena

Magic The Gathering: Arena Dev Tracker




01 Apr

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Originally posted by nnmeq

I have one. It's the Hydra for XGG that fights and it comes into play whole I control The Great Henge. Current default is to have the henge trigger go first, then Hydra trigger on top of that. It's almost always better to have the Hydra be put on first then the Henge on top of it.

I haven't played Wicked Wolf with a Henge yet but I suspect it has the same problem. In fact I can't recall if any of the ETB fighting creatures have the Henge stack first.

It's a pity, our system really cuts Voracious Hydra a raw deal. The only context it has for deciding where to stack the trigger is "When CARDNAME enters the battlefield, choose one" - it can't investigate what the options are. Also, it's possible that those options are wildly different in where they would want to be sorted - at the extremes, one option could win you the game and one could lose you the game, but there are many possibilities between.

Annoyingly, both "Double the number of +1/+1 counters on CARDNAME" and "CARDNAME fights target creature you don’t control" would normally be sorted to occur after the Great Henge's trigger, but the "we don't know anything about this modal" sorting weight is the default value, which is stacked to resolve before the Great Henge. #wotc_staff

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Out of curiosity, what was the trigger order you disliked? It's nearly impossible to sort them correctly 100% of the time (especially because some trigger interactions sort non-transitively), but perhaps the issue that burned you is one we haven't considered. #wotc_staff


31 Mar

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One person roping you (or even multiple people for that matter) doesn't mean that we "do nothing". It just means that people are rude and do it. Of course the more matches you play, the more people you'll run into with a bad attitude. People do this kind of thing on every game ever.

Rest assured that we do take action on accounts that are repeatedly reported for roping. Just because you don't see it, or experience it from multiple people, doesn't mean that we don't take it seriously! Report the player so we can look into taking action.


30 Mar

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@CaptainCaveman#95958:

What if you are one of those people (like me) who refuses to use Twitter , Facebook and all that other junk? I do NOT want to set up a Facebook account. I do NOT want to set up a Twitter account. I would have no issue walking into my LGS but of course during these times they are closed. So what then?

You can look at their social media to see if they're participating, and then call or email them.


28 Mar

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The primary reason is that when we are close to rotation (e.g. after M21), we don't want to be running draft formats that will soon be rotating out. In order to keep the cycling-format drafts have a variety of sets, we're more likely to run these formats now, when rotation is not soon.

#WotCStaff


27 Mar