Bug Fixes

• Players should no longer experience lag/gameplay delays while playing Magic: The Gathering Arena
• Due to the downtime caused by this hotfix, we have extended the Omniscience draft event until Monday, November 11 at 8 a.m. PT (16:00 UTC).

To address an issue affecting Magic: The Gathering Arena we are temporarily disabling Omniscience draft at this time. For participating players, your current draft and/or record will be saved and we'll be extending the event to make up for the outage.

All other play queues and events are still available. We apologies for the inconvenience.

NOV 5 – Brawl Ban Announcement

MTG Arena Effective Date: November 5, 2019

Brawl:

• Oko, Thief of Crowns is banned.

This includes using Oko, Thief of Crowns as your commander or as part of your deck. As a general reminder, Direct Challenge outside of Tournament Mode does not enforce card bans.

Regarding Player Collections:

Players who have Oko, Thief of Crowns as part of their in-game collection on MTG Arena prior to this announcement will not be receiving Wildcards as part of this update. Oko, Thief of Crowns is still playable in all other formats and events.

A Note on Wednesday Brawl:

Players will need to restart their client at any point before the start of Wednesday Brawl on November 6, 2019 at 8 a.m. PT for Brawl decks containing Oko, Thief of Crowns to appear unplayable. Otherwise, players will not see that their deck is invalid until they hit “Play” (...

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Gameplay

Brawl

• Oko, Thief of Crowns is now banned in Brawl on MTG Arena.
  • This includes using Oko, Thief of Crowns as your commander or as part of your deck.
  • General Reminder: Direct Challenge matches (outside of Tournament Mode) does not enforce card bans.

Bug Fixes

• Players using a non-English language should no longer experience infrequent disconnects
• The Play button should now work if players had selected a Historic deck while on the Standard deck selection page
• Players no longer need to change match settings to select a Historic deck in Direct Challenge
• Players can now change their Brawl decks after finishing a Brawl Direct Challenge match

Game Update Highlights

• Brawl Launch Event: Celebrate Brawl coming to Magic: The Gathering Arena in this weeklong event!
• Throne of Eldraine Showcase card styles are now available!
• Festival of the Fae: New events, showcase card style rewards, and a new Wilds battlefield.
• Extra Life: Play Games. Help Kids. Ponies.

Gameplay

Brawl

Brawl is now a supported format in Magic: The Gathering Arena

• Sorcerous Spyglass is currently banned in Brawl
  • Developer Note: Though Brawl is considered a Standard format, it does maintain a separate ban list from other Standard constructed formats. As such, Field of the Dead is not banned in Brawl.
• Brawl will be available as a play q...

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Do you make Magic: The Gathering fan art? If so, we'd absolutely love to see it! Email it to us at [email protected] along with your twitter handle. We want to share your art with our community!

Note: Your art should follow our ...

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Banned and Restricted Announcement

MTG Arena Effective Date: Oct 24, 2019

Standard:

• Field of the Dead is banned.

This includes both Traditional (best-of-three) and Arena (best-of-one) Standard constructed formats and events. This includes Play, Standard Ranked, Traditional Standard Play, Traditional Standard Ranked, Standard Event, Traditional Standard Event and Tournament Mode Direct Challenges. This will not include Brawl or Direct Challenge (except for Tournament Mode).

To read more about this change, please refer to today’s Banned and Restricted Announcement.

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Normally, this is the time and place we talk about all the fun and exciting things coming soon to Magic: The Gathering Arena (which we'll get to), but we wanted to start today's developer update by addressing some of the concerns currently impacting the state of the game before we talk about what's coming on October 24, 2019.

PERFORMANCE CHECK-IN

Performance improvements and overall client health is our highest priority for the game right now and will be our primary focus for the next few months. This is something that's been on our radar since the release of Core Set 2020 back in July, however, the improvements and changes we've made have not been enough for many of our players.

We need to do more. So, we're going to do more. And we're going to keep at it until we can provide the experience players expect and deserve.

Since the release of Throne of Eldraine, we've increased the number of developer resources dedicated to fi...

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Events

Draft

• Various updates to Throne of Eldraine bot pick priority

Performance Improvements

• Players running the game on integrated GPUs should see a significant reduction in crash frequency

We will be performing scheduled maintenance on October 10 at 8 a.m. PT (15:00 UTC) to deploy the 1.00.02 game update. Maintenance is expected to last approximately one hour.

No downtime is expected. Players who are logged in prior to the start of maintenance are encouraged to restart their client once the game update is available. For all other players, the game will automatically update the next time Magic: The Gathering Arena is launched.

Patch notes will be available once maintenance is complete.

Bug Fixes

• Adventure cards with card styles applied should now display text in the proper font color when on the stack
• Fires of Invention now properly works with God-Eternal Kefnet's copy-cast trigger
• Fires of Invention no longer prevents you from paying the casting cost of spells with ( X ) in its mana cost (you may choose to pay the mana cost or an alternative cost for spells you cast, even if their converted mana cost is less than or equal to the number of lands you control)
• Set Mastery rewards now properly display when hovering over them
• Hushbringer no longer inappropriately prevents "whenever you sacrifice a creature" triggers (an ability that triggers on an event that causes a creature to die will still trigger). Devils can cause Mayhem again!
• (Localization) Decks exported in Japanese can now successfully be imported in Japanese
• Closing out of the purchase flow without completi...

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SEASON DATES

Throne of Eldraine Season 1 starts September 30, 12:05 PT (19:05 UTC), ends October 31 at 12:00 PT (19:00 UTC)

• First qualifying period for January Mythic Point Challenge.
• Top 1,200 Mythic Ranked players in Constructed or Limited at the end of this season will be eligible to compete in the Mythic Point Challenges and Mythic Qualifier.
• For more information on the changes coming to the 2020-2021 season, check out ...

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UPDATE

We've begun granting players their missing Level 100 rewards. Players who have not received their Chandra Exquisite Sleeve or final Core Set 2020 Mastery orb should see it in their collection by 11:59 p.m. PT (Sept. 28, 6:59 UTC).

• If you no longer see the Core Set 2020 Mastery, receiving the final Orb will allow you to access the Mastery Tree so you can redeem it.

If you do not receive your missing rewards by end of day Pacific time, please contact support.

After further investigation, we have confirmed that this was an issue with our data tracking and card collation is working as intended. Pack purchasing has been re-enabled for all players, and there are no further steps at this time. Thank you for your patience, and we apologize for any inconvenience.

We are temporarily disabling pack purchases to address an issue with collation. We apologize for the inconvenience, and will update you with more information once it becomes available.

At approximately 2 p.m. PT (21:00 UTC) we started experiencing degraded performance with our in-game store. Players attempting to redeem codes and/or complete transactions may have received the following error message:

At this time, if you have not received your missing items please contact support for further assistance:

Code Redemption
https://mtgarena-support.wizards.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form_id=360000390572

All Other Order Issues

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We have resolved the issue with Quests, Weekly Wins, and Renewal Rewards. All players should have three Quests (including Quests in-progress prior to this update) and 0/15 Weekly Wins, and will see their Renewal Rewards the next time the game is launched. Affected players should restart their game client at this time.

We are continuing to monitor the situation to ensure there are not further issues. Thank you for your patience!

We have temporarily disabled the Eldraine Mastery system to address issues with Quest and Weekly Win resets. As a result, players will also be unable to earn Weekly Win and Quest rewards at this time.

The Mastery system should be re-enabled at approximately 10:30 a.m. PT. We'll update you with more information once it becomes available.

Update

We are extending maintenance to address the issues with Quest and Weekly Win resets. There is no ETA at this time. Players may experience disruptions to their Quest and Weekly Win progress until maintenance is complete.