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Could be reasonable. A complication is that the activations count even before The Chain Veil enters the battlefield. And added to that, we prefer not to load the code for abilities that aren't currently in the game - if you were to get The Chain Veil from some sort of conjuration effect, we want those old activations to count even if The Chain Veil's code wasn't in the game at time of activation. #wotc_staff

By my understanding of MTG's usage of "as though", The Chain Veil wouldn't interact interestingly with that. The Chain Veil just affects whether you're permitted to activate the ability, not whether that activation actually counts as the first time it was activated this turn. Similar weirdness exists around "as though it were mana of any color." #wotc_staff

Hello reddit! [[The Chain Veil]] was the most interesting Pioneer Masters card I worked on implementing for MTG Arena, so I'm happy to preview it for you.

Both of the abilities involved some new-to-Arena mechanics. The triggered ability involved me teaching our "activate" verb handling about how to behave in a condition phrase - here, to look throughout the history of ability activations for this turn for a loyalty ability's activation whose source was, at the time of activation, a planeswalker. Lots of testing around this for "what about other abilities on planeswalkers?" "What about permanents that weren't planeswalkers but had loyalty abilities, but are planeswalkers now that it's the end step?" And many more in that ilk.

The activated ability is certainly the more fun one. But it's interestingly very different from similar extra-activation abilities like [[Oath of Teferi]] and [[Urza, Planeswalker]]. In particular, each activation of The Chain Veil gives a speci...

No, I think everything in the bonus sheet (and main set) is Pioneer-legal

At this point I think you'll need to contact CS. They may be able to force-kick you from the event, and, if not, we would need more information to track down what's going on

That's very strange, and I'm not immediately seeing what would be going wrong. Can you try going to Settings -> Report Bug -> Validate Bundles and see if that cleans anything up?

Always upvote PT Honolulu

Yeah, we'll do some previews. A bit lower-key, but I think they actually start later today

Yup!

The set is 80% new-to-Arena cards, with most of the reprints at common & uncommon to help fill out draft archetypes. Of the roughly 130 rares & mythics, I think 6 are reprints. (Note: I get just about 400 cards for the set, not 500)

This is not an intentional change, and we're looking into why it's happening. I don't have a clear answer currently, but we're investigating.

This is a bug; we'll get it fixed!

Hey, thanks for the callout here! This is a bug, related to how there is full-art and normal aspect ratio art for this land. We'll get it resolved.

There was an issue here this morning, but we've patched it. If you are still getting this error, resigning and entering again should fix you. If you're affected, you should have in inbox message giving you a refund as well

To get ahead of the inevitable "Why didn't you QA this?" question, we did!
But.
The bug is that some of the packets got configured with the Pioneer Masters version of a card, rather than the Jumpstart 25 version (there are a few cards that overlap between the sets). This is unfortunately easy to do in our tools, and, worse, it won't show up in most of our QA passes, because most of those passes are done in a version of the game that has access to Pioneer Masters, so it wasn't throwing this error. Only the final testing is done in an environment that is more locked down. Testing is lighter there, particularly over features that have already been fully tested, so we didn't test every packet, and must have missed these.

This is obviously a hole in our process, and we're discussing the right way to fix it.

Hey, thanks for the report! We're looking into this. So far, we can tell that many people are able to play fine, but some people are hitting a problem that looks like the one you describe. We don't know exactly what's happening yet, but we suspect there's a problem with how one or more packets are configured

Edit: Ok, we know what's happening and are working on deploying a fix. Basically, some of the packets got filled out with the wrong card IDs, so they're causing errors.

The problematic packets are:
- Legion
- Grave Robbers
- Stoked
(Note: For some of these the card isn't a 100% pull, so you may have a version of these packets that works fine)

If you are affected, please go ahead and resign and choose a different set of packets. We'll be sending automated refunds via the inbox for affected players, so you'll get your entry fee back.

Sorry about this, and we hope to have the packets fixed soon

Edit Edit: We have now fixe...