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One of the things my team here at Wizards social/community does is make sure this kind of feedback gets to the design teams here in Renton. We've been sharing this with the MTG Arena development team directly throughout the implementation of Historic. The team is really excited for Historic on Arena to be its own original format that can leverage the digital playground. In order to ensure that it's a fun and healthy sort of playground, we're working with the Magic R&D team (sometimes referred to as Studio X) and the play test teams for any additional cards added to the format.

Hey there! Just to make things as clear as we can: The Historic Ranked queues coming later this year and Historic events will offer full rewards and progress toward daily/weekly wins. So while the always-available Historic play queue only offers experience via quest completion, there are other ways that Historic play will count toward daily/weekly wins.

There are a lot of knobs and levers behind the scene we're flipping to try to balance the long term health of the game with players' abilities to craft cards. This is a tough balancing act. This pricing is where the team landed for wildcard redemption, and to offset this, we will be providing other avenues for players to add these cards to their collections such as through Historic events in November, Historic drafts, and future monthly Historic events.