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What about free alchemy boosters? My inbox is empty
First messages should be going out in about 30 min (10 am PST). We wanted to give a cushion to make sure the release was up & stable.
What about free alchemy boosters? My inbox is empty
First messages should be going out in about 30 min (10 am PST). We wanted to give a cushion to make sure the release was up & stable.
There's a tiny bug with the anthology where it's not showing up for players who have purchased EA1. We're fixing that right now, and the bundle should be up soon.
Edit: Fixed now
Note Array and Morale Sergeant are currently part of a Store Bundle and some other cards
Bundles get pro-rated down if you already have part of them, so there shouldn’t be a way to hurt yourself here
The only reason you should get a 5th copy from a Golden Pack is that you’re rare complete across all of Standard (which doesn’t sound like the case here). Please do contact support; even if you don’t have logs or pics, having your playerId will let our data team dig back in the history and hopefully see what happened.
We’ll be investigating this (and the other, similar report) and will fix any errors we find.
No fix for the other app sound bug on iOS 😰
We're aware of the issue and working on a fix. This is a bug, not any intentional change. No ETA to give yet.
On the topic of bugs, I saw that the alt-art of Brutal Cathar and its flip side don't have any text anymore, even though the card itself works as intended so it should only be a visual issue
Thanks for the report. We’re aware and should have it fixed soon
Would be nice if they told us why are they changing this stuff every patch in the first place.
Initial change was a bug (unintentional); putting it back to the old way was a bugfix. I agree, it should have had a patch note. Just got missed, unfortunately.
Just looked into this - due to a data snafu these packs won't unlock until 4pm PST today. Sorry about that!
Key Note: This is the one (and only) card from the Retro Artifacts that won't be legal in Historic.
There are some other potentially spicy cards that we'll be keeping an eye on, but, like with Strixhaven's Mystical Archive, we're starting off by only acting on cards we know will be a problem (like this one).
Yes, exactly this.
Will you be adding more quest variety anytime soon? It would be nice to gain life, mill cards, put counters etc. Something to spice it up a little.
We experimented with things like this back in beta, and we found that it was very easy to make quests that created frustrating games. We had a "Make 30 thopter tokens" quest, for example, that lead to people playing frustrating token spam decks with no real wincon just to complete the quest quickly.
I agree with you that "spice is nice", and we're interested in other ways to get there, but there are no current plans to shift up the quests.
You know you've played Arena since Beta when you read something like this and think "that's awesome!" and then immediately get nervous and start looking around for the catch. Packs are still 1K gold, right? Quests and daily win rewards are the same, right?
No catch, no other systems or prices are changing. Pack prices, WC track, quests, etc. all stay the same.
Does this count for single packs bought?
Yes, think of it like a value card from a coffee or sandwich chain - every purchase gets you a stamp on your card, get 10 stamps and you get a Golden Pack
This claims all of the cards will be from the current Standard set, while the latest WotC news said
1(correction: 2) from BRO and the rest from any Standard set. I suppose we'll have to wait for a WotC confirmation to get the exact details on this.
All duplicate protected, as normal for packs. (For nitty-gritty: Duplicate protection here is working across all of Standard, not on a per-set basis. If you have all of BRO, then the 2 slots there will pull from the rest of Standard. No gems until you're totally rare complete across Standard.)
(We're reaching out to get that article adjusted)
I'm assuming there's going to be an instant ban list for Historic like for the archives? If so, when would we find out about it?
We plan to make that clear as cards are previewed, much like we did with Strixhaven.
Have there been any discussions regarding the length of the timers? Alternatively, is the team happy with the current timer length and how additional timeouts are granted?
We talk about the timers regularly. They're serving many different goals (keeping play moving, allowing players time to understand unfamiliar cards, allowing reasonable time to reconnect from a dropped connection, etc.). Overall, we think the current system is doing a decent job of balancing these sometimes competing goals, though we're always open to looking for net improvements.
So this pretty much confirms we’re not getting the Brother’s War Archive cards like we did with Strixhaven’s. What a huge bummer.
I wish they would just come out and clearly state “this IS or ISN’T coming to Arena” when they initially announce stuff.
Those cards ARE coming to Arena, just like with Strixhaven
Re: Golden Pack: I hope they have the same rare protection as a normal pack (you can't open a mythic/rare if you have 4)? Great pack if so, meh pack for many if not.
Yes, these are duplicate protected much like normal packs
Even something like a 7 day ban for people who are repeating offenders.
People who intentionally rope do get banned, but they have to be reported. As far as I know (I could be wrong), WotC doesn't automatically detect ropers.
We do automatically detect ropers, and we temp-to-perma ban a number of them each month (depending on the depravity of their roping behavior). This is fairly easy to detect in data, and we tend to rely on that more than player reports, which can be subject to abuse & bias (turns out blue players gets disproportionately reported, even when they’re not abusing timers; who could have guessed?)
We've changed the way we're determining this and, Urza willing, it will stay fixed from now on