Magic The Gathering: Arena

Magic The Gathering: Arena Dev Tracker




20 Sep

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Drafting is being unstable right now, so we've temporarily disabled it while we sort things out. If you've completed the drafting portion, you'll be able to resume your event once we're able to turn drafts back on. Sorry for the delay, but you won't lose your progress.


19 Sep

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Sep 19, 18:01 UTC
Resolved - This incident has been resolved.

Sep 19, 17:45 UTC
Update - We are aware of an issue currently affecting player drafts on Magic: The Gathering Arena. We are temporarily disabling this event until the issue is resolved.

Sep 18, 19:36 UTC
Investigating - We've received reports of players experiencing degraded performance on @MTG_Arena. Players may experience general gameplay disruptions (disconnects, increased loading times, etc.) at this time.


15 Sep

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Originally posted by HamBoneRaces

Ah, gotcha. I appreciate the explanation, thank you!!

Deals are up at 8am PT today (and QuickDraft is back), as intended. Bolas is in the Meditation Realm; all's right with the world.

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Originally posted by HamBoneRaces

EDIT: It's now 12:00am UTC and the Daily Deals have been completely removed from the store; first time something like that has ever happened... very odd bug.

Happy Stonks Day! It’s been 34 days (give or take a few hours 😉) since gold was last in the shop. As many of you have no doubt noticed, the gold deal and seven of the card styles showed up early at 12:00am UTC instead of the usual 3:00pm UTC. Make sure you grab the deals you want before they expire in nine instead of 24 hours!

For the past few weeks it seems like this has been a common occurrence in the Daily Deals where on some days a few new deals will show up after the fact at 12:00am UTC. As everything with today’s deal was released early, it will be interesting to see what happens at 12:00am UTC. Perhaps u/WotC_Jay could please kindly clarify if this is intended behavior with the Daily Deals moving forward or if something else is afoot and if it’s being looked a...

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Timing of the deal transitions yesterday was a bug, not intended. Deals are still supposed to transition at 8am PT, but some bad data has made some roll over at midnight UTC


13 Sep

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Originally posted by lor1keet

I have yet to encounter one of the orange players. Maybe I'm too low ranked. ;)

We are very few in number compared to the overall playerbase. And we come in all variety of ranks. (I'm usually low-ranked constructed, for example, because I spent 90% of my time in limited.)


12 Sep

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Sep 12, 19:00 UTC
Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.

Sep 12, 16:00 UTC
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.

Sep 11, 17:51 UTC
Scheduled - @MTG_Arena maintenance will occur to deploy the 2023.29.10 game update.

⏲️ Full deployment estimated at ~3 hours.
🛠️ No downtime is expected.
💻 Restart required.
📝 Patch notes available soon after.

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"Report a bug" link in the options menu will get you there. For something like this, you can also just message me here. And thanks for the report!

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Packs you open for draft or sealed deckbuilding will not care about the cards you have in your collection. Having 4x of a rare will not prevent it showing up (otherwise you would just craft 4x of all the bad rares to ensure you got good ones, right?).

If you get a rare/mythic you have 4x of, you will get 20/40 gems as normal. And the packs you earn as rewards from draft or sealed are duplicate protected like any other packs

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Originally posted by cardgamesandbonobos

Wilds of Eldraine is out, and now's the time to build your skills with the new set as we approach Arena Open: Wilds of Eldraine, happening this weekend, September 16–17. You won't even need a well-stocked collection to be competitive, because this tournament features Limited formats: Sealed Best-of-One and Best-of-Three on Day 1,

The last Limited Arena Open shows that they have the capability to run Draft on Day 1, but they choose to go Sealed for...rea$on$.

When we run D1 as sealed, more players play in the Open than when D1 is draft. Our assumption is that more players prefer sealed here, or at least they find it more welcoming or approachable. We've also talked with the people that run big tabletop events, and they found sealed to be more approachable and net better for day 1. In any case, we like to do the thing that gets more players involved in playing the cool Magic event. That's why it's usually sealed for day 1.
Cube is different. Synergy-based collations tend to need the flexibility of draft for players to assemble interesting decks, so we ran cube as draft-draft. But, in general, the data shows more players prefer sealed-draft, so that's what we generally run


11 Sep

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Originally posted by Endless5340

Am I to understand that Pioneer Masters is designed to help make collecting cards that already exist on Arena easier?

I like Pioneer and I like to draft... I am worried that this will be a set full of cards I already have on Arena.

The focus will be on new-to-Arena cards. Maybe a couple reprints at C/U if the format needs them specifically, but it will be about bringing new cards to Arena in a fun, draftable format

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Originally posted by pelican15

Appreciate you guys doing a Pioneer Masters for explorer.

For me, draftability and pack cracking is a huge part of getting my hands on MTGA cards, and the lack-there-of being one of the reasons why anthology cards (and explorer in general) feels so inaccessible. Like many other Explorers, I'm stuck opening standard/supplemental set packs that have little to no impact on my format of choice, and I need to scrounge wildcards to be able to afford the countless anthology cards I'm looking to get. Pioneer Masters seems to remedy that.

If you're able to answer, will Pioneer Masters be draftable? Will cards from the Explorer Anthologies be included in this set? If not, will your team maybe be implementing an alternate way to acquire these Anthology cards?

Thanks Jay!

Pioneer Masters is 100% draftable, and is designed to appeal to players like you describe. So I hope there are a lot of you :)

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Originally posted by Rainfall7711

Is there any chance of an article about draft? It would be cool to see it compared to constructed.

Comparing draft to constructed is very apples-to-oranges - paid vs free, the way draft spikes up much harder than constructed with each set release, etc.

What other types of information about draft would you be interested in?

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Originally posted by deathrattlestwice

Why is the team not dedicated to adding Modern to Arena considering the format's popularity?

We're adding Pioneer to Arena as quickly as we can. As you can easily see, it's also slower than many players would like. The gap between Arena and Modern is much wider than Pioneer.

Magic is a rich and complex game, and that makes implementing new cards & mechanics complex as well. This is especially true of older mechanics, which tend to be a bit twistier. We have a large chunk of the team focused on implementing new cards, but most of that work goes to keeping up with Standard. We can't get to Modern in any near-term timeframe. (And yes, we're constantly working to expand our bandwidth here, but scaling teams takes time too.)

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Originally posted by dwindleelflock

This is interesting for sure. I would love to see charts like this more often from them. I would also like to see a breakdown of causal play queue and ranked queue, but I assume if they won't include it, they are roughly the same.

The one thing that is surprising to me is that alchemy is twice as popular as explorer. From my experience in ranked BO3 queues, explorer pairs you up with an opponent of similar rank way faster than alchemy. In alchemy queues I have 1+ minutes of waiting time and often getting paired against the same person or people from way below my rank. This happens way less often in explorer. Maybe it's just the timezone and when I play arena that affects it. For the longest time I assumed it has to be the casual play queue influencing the percentages, but them not splitting them up second time around makes me think this is way less likely to be true.

As for brawl it would be interesting to see if they abandon standard brawl completely. Is there any...

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Play and Ranked are generally pretty close to each other, around 60/40, with some formats favoring Play and some favoring Ranked. Ranked also gets a boost early in the month, which tends to shift towards Play as the month goes on.

Different formats also have different levels of Bo3 vs Bo1, but even the "most Bo3" formats still have the vast majority of their games in Bo1.

Standard brawl we see as mostly an intro format for Historic Brawl, and we're looking into that more currently


09 Sep

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Definitely reach out to support; we’ll get it fixed. If you have problems there, DM me.


08 Sep

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Thanks for the report. We're looking into this. As a reminder, any accounts found to be exploiting bugs risk suspension, bans, etc.


05 Sep

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This was a bug. Fixing it (changing one number in a data file) took down the game for ~15m. Whee! Live development is fun!

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Sep 5, 20:29 UTC
Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.

Sep 5, 15:01 UTC
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.

Aug 30, 22:33 UTC
Scheduled - @MTG_Arena maintenance will occur to deploy the 2023.29.0 game update.

⏲️ Full deployment estimated at ~3 hours.
🛠️ No downtime is expected but may be experienced.
💻 Restart required.
📝 Patch notes available soon after.


31 Aug

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Originally posted by AgyleSox

Edit: Nevermind. Wotc_jay to the rescue. Image has been fixed.

Ugh, why are there frames on the 'full art storybook lands'? That really takes away the appeal of those.

That is not how they look here:

https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/feature/collecting-wilds-of-eldraine

Hey, thanks for the callout. The article had an outdated image, and it's updated now. They're properly borderless on the battlefield as you would expect.

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Originally posted by EasternBlok

Yep - definitely neat. I wonder if this is only when a person opens 2+ packs

It’s similar (but shorter) for one pack. The big win is that this lets you see all of your rares/mythics when you “Open 10” (or a sealed pool) in a set with a bonus sheet