Game Update Highlights

• Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths is now available!
• Player Draft is here! Draft with your fellow players – and your first draft is on us!
• Godzilla Series Monsters – for a limited time, add these alternate art card styles to your collection!
• Stay at Home, Play at Home – More Friday Night Magic challenges are coming every week, no entry fee for April's Brawlers’ Guildhall, and continuing earning quest progress in Direct Challenges!

Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths

• There’s always a bigger monster. . . see the ...

Acquiring Godzilla Series Monster Card Styles in MTG Arena

We’re only a few weeks away from Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths arriving on MTG Arena – and this time, we’re bringing friends.

For a limited time, all 19 Godzilla Series Monsters will be available in Magic: The Gathering Arena as card styles (cosmetic alternate arts), and there are two ways that players can add them to their collections:

Way #1: Purchasing Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths booster bundles

Whenever you purchase an Ikoria in-game booster bundle with at least six packs, you will receive a Godzilla Series Monster card style:

• 6 Packs: 1 Godzilla Series Monsters card style
• 15 Packs: 3 Godzilla Series Monsters card styles
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Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths Pre-Order

Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths is now available to Pre-order!

• Both Play and Pack bundles are available for this set.
• Players who purchase both pre-orders will get Azizi, the cutest Skycat!

Vivien Pack Bundle Price: $49.99 or €49.99

• 50x Set Boosters
• 1x Card of Vivien, Monsters’ Advocate
• 1x Vivien, Monsters’ Advocate Card Style
• 10x Bonus Godzilla Series Monster Card Styles
• Vivien Tracker Sleeve (Available Immediately)

Lukka Play Bundle Price: $49.99 or €49.99

Full content granted on April 16, 2020:

• Set Mastery Pass
• +10 Set Mastery Levels
• 2x Sealed Tokens
• 1x Lukka, Coppercoat Outcast Card
• Lukka, Coppercoat Outcast Card Style
• Lukka Outcast Sleeve Purchase (Available Immediately)

Pre-order both and receive th...

With 1.06.01 Game Update, players may be prompted to install Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2019. This is intended behavior, and is required to properly run Magic: The Gathering Arena.

• If you are prompted to install, restarting your computer is highly recommend, but not required.Please wait for the installation to finish before restarting your computer.

Patch Notes

• Added FNM Home events to MTG Arena.
• For more information, click here.

If you are seeing a white background when previewing the event, please restart your client to download the latest game update.

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We have flagged this particular instance as resolved. If you continue to experience issues, or need further assistance related to this outage please contact support: https://mtgarena-support.wizards.com/

We are bringing MTG Arena back online, however we're continuing to monitor the situation to ensure our systems have stabilized. Maintenance is on-going.

Because COVID-19 is keeping millions of people around the world indoors, we wanted to do a little something to help make social distancing a little more tolerable.

To that end, we are making changes to the Magic: The Gathering Arena event schedule beginning on Thursday, March 19 to give you more ways to play Magic from the comfort and safety of your home:

• The Brawlers' Guildhall event for March will have no entry fee and will be available March 19–April 16.

• Theros Beyond Death Ranked Draft will be available March 19–April 16 in addition to our regular bi-weekly rotating Ranked Draft event.

These changes are scheduled to go live on March 19 at approximately 8 a.m. PT.

Stay safe, wash your hands, and try to avoid becoming too stir-crazy as you’re cooped up in your house for the time being. We’re continuing to explore ways to make it easier for you to keep in contact with players from ...

Game Update Highlights

• Historic Anthology 2 is now available!
• Direct Messaging - Chat with your friends!
• Updated New Player Experience
• Quality of Life Improvements
  • Updated Card Sleeve UX
  • New Emotes? Thanks!
  • Deck Sorting Improvements
• Puppet Jace

Historic Anthology 2

• You may purchase playsets (four copies) of every card in the Historic Anthology 2 bundle for either 25,000 gold or 4,000 gems
  • You can also craft individual cards by redeeming Wildcards of the appropriate rarity (1:1).
• Historic Anthology 2 cards are legal in Historic formats, Bot Match, and Direct Challenge.
• Histo...

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MTG Arena Effective Date: March 12, 2020

Brawl:

Golos, Tireless Pilgrim is banned.

Historic:

The following cards are moved from suspended to banned:

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The March game update is sure to put a spring in your steps and phases with new cards, new features, new events, and new ways to interact with your fellow players.

Nice? Nice.

HISTORIC ANTHOLOGY II

In case you missed it last week, we announced that we'll be adding 25 cards to MTG Arena as part of Historic Anthology II.

With Historic Anthology I, our primary goal was to open up the options for Historic decks to start bringing the greater breadth that a nonrotating format should support. We felt like this landed fairly well, with cards like ...

On March 12, Magic: The Gathering Arena will be updating Historic with 25 new cards to add to players' arsenals—and Secret Lair is going to get in on some of the action.

Want to view the full announcement made this morning? Click here!

Among those 25 new cards, players will discover a powerful two-drop in ...

Bug Fixes - Update

• Players who previously redeemed the [[80560,hashtags]] code for the Championship Trophy pet should now see the pet in their collection.

Note: This was a data only deployment. Players will not need to update their client as a part of this maintenance.

Patch Notes

• Various updates and changes to the Theros Beyond Death bot priority.

Bug Fixes

• Gitrog Monster is now playable in Traditional Historic (best-of-three) events and play queues.
• The Championship Trophy should no longer disappear from player inventories after redeeming the [[80560,hashtags]] code
  • Note: This is only a fix for players who have not yet redeemed their code. For players who previously redeemed the code and do not have the pet in their collection, we will be deploying a separate fix.

The Rotting Regisaur card style is listed for an incorrect price when purchasing it through the Deck Builder. As a result, the Daily Deal price of 750 gems appears incorrect as well.

• The price in the Deck Builder should be 1,000 gems (the standard cost for rare card styles), not 600 gems.
• Players who purchase the Rotting Regisaur card style through the February 17 Daily Deal will be automatically reimbursed 150 gems to match the currently displayed price in the deck builder.
• We are working with our support team to identify the players affected by this price discrepancy. Players do not have to contact support to receive the reimbursement.
• The deck builder price will be corrected in a future game update, however the Rotting Regisaur card style will be available for 600 gems until that time.

We apologize for the confusion and inconvenience.

We have recently taken action against players for in-game misconduct related to abusing the timer system (“roping”). In addition to player reports, we also looked at multiple data points over an extended period of time to help us identify which players we believe were deliberately misusing this system before taking action against their account.

The timer system is an important feature in Magic: The Gathering Arena and is designed to allow for additional time to handle complex board states or the occasional real-world disruption. We intend for players to use their timeouts as necessary while also ensuring matches come to a timely conclusion. We were careful to only act against players who we can conclusively prove deliberately and consistently abused this feature.

Players will be notified through email if they were flagged for misconduct, as well as what actions were taken against their account.

Thank you to all of our players for their reports, as w...

Hot Fix

• Players should now be able to choose a card they own outside of their current game when using "Wish"-like effects (e.g. Fae of Wishes).

If you continue to experience this issue, please ...

Game Update Highlights

• Magic World Championship XXVI Showcase
• Festival of the Gods
• Theros Beyond Death Nyx Basic Lands and Showcase Card Styles
• New Events: Workshop Series

Gameplay

General

• Cards that self-sacrifice to do a thing you probably want to do (like Dauntless Bodyguard or Evolving Wilds) now use a Food style soft confirm. Just click the card, then click Activate Ability.
• The hanger for defenders who are allowed to attack as if they didn't have defender now has the correct icon (a crossed out defender icon).
• We've refactored how we handle cards that allow you to pay mana as if it was any color, and as a result have tweaked how we display modified costs:
  • If a card's co...

As we celebrate the release of Theros Beyond Death and the upcoming Magic World Championship, the February game update brings a variety of ways for you to experience Magic: The Gathering Arena.

MAGIC WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP XXVI

Sixteen players. $1,000,000 in prizes. In a little over a week's time, the best Magic players in the world will travel to Honolulu, Hawaii to compete for the title of Magic World Champion. And, this year, they'll be competing on MTG Arena.

To support the Draft portion of the event, we've added the option for players to Direct Challenge each other in a Limited Tournament Match that will follow the same rules as other Best-of-Three Draft formats in MTG Arena. Players also have the option to choose a 40-card deck as one of the options for other Direct Challenge matches, where you can play around with options like timers and who goes first.

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