I REALLY hope this isn't the reason why [[Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh]] was suspiciously missing from being included in Pioneer Masters
Cards were included or excluded from Pioneer Masters based mainly on competitive play volume and, after that, what we needed to flesh out limited. Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh didn't meet the play volume on the competitive side, and it wasn't important for limited play.
Thanks for the report! This (and a couple other missing keyword hangers) is a bug, and we will get a fix in
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I was under the impression that at 8am PST that the set would be live/draftable? Does anybody know when it will be live?
It's up now; looks like things were available around 8:20
For background, we normally "Push the button" to set things deploying at 8:00am Pacific. Those deploy jobs generally take 15-30 minutes, though sometimes we have additional things we need to do before or after. That's a good, general rule for when to expect releases.
For mobile clients, timing is more variable and depend on the content rollout in the iOS/GooglePlay store. Those roll things out to different content nodes over time, and results can be highly variable. It should generally be available everywhere by 9am
maybe @u/WotC_Jay can answer this? I hope they will rename it as soon as possible
What I said last month in the State of the Formats article is still the plan. When we get to a format that has all of the competitive Pioneer cards, we will rename the format to Pioneer. We think Pioneer Masters gets us there. We are eager to see how the metagame develops and what the player response to the format is now. That information, both quantitative & qualitative, will let us all know that it's time to change the name.
Thanks! For Premier Draft is that BO1, BO3, both, or other?
Both Premier (Bo1) and Traditional (Bo3) draft will be available
3 questions:
1) Will I still be able to open Urborg in packs, or is it only a bundle promo?
2) What draft events for PIO will be available on release?
3) What time will the set drop? Will it be the usual mid-afternoon (EST) or will it be earlier?
Yes, it's still in packs as normal (store & limited)
Premier Draft will be available on release
We plan to release it at the normal time - around 9am Pacific, give or take
Speaking of Goose Hydra, I'd like report a bug: The Goose Mother makes the "generic bird" hawk screech sound instead of the goose honk when entering the battlefield.
I know a Reddit post contributed to getting this fixed for Gilded Goose back in original Eldraine. Be the change you want to see in the world, they say...
Thank you for your service! This travesty will not stand!
Appreciate all the metagame challenge events that are happening this month and the start of January.
If either u/WotC_Jay or any other Arena Team members see this. Will there be an article for collecting Pioneer Masters? As I am wondering what the drop rates will be for the bonus sheet rares and mythics in Play Boosters? Also what they will be in Store packs? Plus any information for the main set drop rates as well?
Collecting article comes out tomorrow, and it will have all of this information!
I'm usually using whatever we've added most recently, but when I'm picking from everything it's usually Beholder or Goose Hydra
This is likely an asset error. Go to Options -> Report Bug -> Validate Bundles, and that should identify & fix any errors. (Sneak preview: With Pioneer Masters next Tuesday this option will be called "Repair Game Files", so it's a bit more discoverable)
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Update, reached out and all they did was refund me 1000 gold. I'm still locked out of Jumpstart and they said all I can do is post in the forum and wait. 🙃 Jumpstart is like the only reason I keep playing.
Hrm. If you PM me your user#1234, I'll get someone to look into what's going on. You're in an interesting enough stuck state that it's worth digging in.
Hey, thanks for the callout. We agree the game can and should be more helpful here, and we'll work on getting an automatic stop in cases like this
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Had a bit of a wonky file going on here, but it should be all fixed now!
So with [[Oath of Teferi]], that means you can triple activate planeswalker abiliters with this right?
Yes, assuming you use The Chain Veil's permission last (which Arena enables easily). #wotc_staff
Hey all, looks like this pack isn't giving Golden Pack progress. This is a bug. Daily Deals packs should give progress, this one is just misconfigured.
The team has the next two days off (US Thanksgiving), but next week we'll get an inbox message out to all players who purchase this to give them the progress they missed out on.
Sorry for the error here!
Question, why does this set need to be draftable? Is there no merit on releasing a set purely for opening. Making the set draftable and balanced just to bring over missing Pioneer staples sounds like a tall order, especially since we know the Arena team is always struggling to keep up.
The core audience for Pioneer Masters was, unsurprisingly, fans of Pioneer in tabletop. That's who we built the set for, but as you can see from our formats article, that's not a huge chunk of players. Many of our players really love drafting, so making the set draftable gives a big increase in the number of players excited for the set.
It does take a good bit of work to make the set draftable, but that work was done by the Magic R&D and Play Design teams, not the Arena team directly. I worked with Ben and other designers over there on the goals and structure for the set, but they chose the cards, the rarity shifts, did the playtesting, etc.
There was also an interesting gramatical challenge for this ability, as "For each planeswalker you control" sounds like it should be iterating over the planeswalkers you currently control, but rather this is a single permission that applies to "the rules of the game" rather than to the individual planeswalkers - basically every time you get priority, this permission looks at the current planeswalkers you control and compares them to the permanents you've already "used up" this permission for.
I really don't get why it is like this, like for me that first working sounds much more intuitive to the wording. Why are you like this mtg rules?
I too was confused, but it is consistent with other effects in the game like "Creatures your opponents control can't block this turn." That also doesn't care about the state of objects as that ability resolves, but rather what is around when the opponents try to block. I do think the "for each" wording adds to the confusion here, but admittedly the desired effect is hard to word. #wotc_staff
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