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Those three cards (and several others) are all cards we have looked at specifically. Based on all of our data, they do not have an outsize impact on the winrate of decks that use them. I'm not saying they're not good cards; they are. But the boost in winrate they give is equivalent to a lot of other good cards. They're not outliers.

We are actively monitoring Brawl balance for these outliers, we just don't see any large ones to act on currently

[[One with Nothing]]

You make a really good point there. I don't have an ETA, but I agree it's valuable.
In lieu of an ETA, I will offer trivia: This broke when we stopped putting a maximum collector number on cards, because that's how the old system worked

Hey, as you've probably noticed, we pulled this down. We had originally planned to run an event here, but we've canceled it. As people have noted in this thread, there are still players from the earlier events who don't have their boxes, and we want to make more progress on those issues before we run another event.

The response to our first few Arena Directs was overwhelming, and though over 95% of winners have gone through all the steps to get their boxes, there are still a few who are having problems preventing this. If you're one of those players with a problem, and you haven't submitted a ticket, please contact us here so we can resolve things. We're working every day to both fix those individual issues and to improve our systems ...

This is correct. Duplicate protection works by name since WOE. (You'll find things saying it works by art; that was the old system.)

It applies to Rare and Mythic cards evenly, so if you have 4 Thousand-Year Storm (at M) from GRN, you won't pull any from FDN packs (until you have all of the other FDN rares in packs)

This is a known side-effect of fixing the Mastery Pass bug (which did indeed happen today; Inbox message incoming soon). For some players, fixing this resulted in doubling up of some rewards. Bank error in your favor; enjoy.

All of the standard-legal cards are coming to Arena. The three you mentioned are not standard-legal and are not coming to Arena. Command Tower and Arcane Signet are already on Arena; Sol Ring will not be coming to Arena.

Yes, we are releasing that many cards. Yes, it’s absolutely bonkers. It’s been quite the marathon internally

This is a thing we want to enable. I don't have a timeline to give for it currently, because it will take an unfortunate amount of work to change, but it's something we want to do and talk about regularly.

Huh, the intent is that any skipping (including the automatic skip when you say you're advanced) should still provide the rewards. We'll look into it

Honestly, we don't have current plans for the remaining artifact lands, but we agree that we need to build some.

We discuss this in next week's State of the Game article, but, spoiler alert, the rarity shifts here shouldn't be an issue for most players starting with the Foundations release

Yeah, you're right. We should do that more.

Hey, sorry you got hit by the Mastery Pass bug. We will have a fix for you and everyone else in that state, and we expect that to come out this week. When it does, you will get back-granted all of the rewards you should have been earning.

For context: There was a bug that affected 92% of players who bought the mastery pass between Oct 15th and Oct 23rd that prevents them from properly getting the rewards for levels they earn. Anyone who bought outside of that window is unaffected

We've added an explicit callout for J25 in blog. It's coming.

We've added an explicit callout for J25 in blog. It's coming.

FDN Constructed MWM - We're hearing you clearly here, and we're going to be changing this to an all-access event.

This was never intended to drive crafting or pack purchase; it was a last-minute change on our part due to scheduling issues, and we didn't think enough about how that change would impact players. We wanted this event to be a place for players to enjoy this fun, new set. Changing this to all access lets us hit that goal better.

When this fix goes out, all affected players will get all of the items they've missed out on, yes

I'm sorry you were hit by that bug. Our latest updates there are on Twitter, and the status is still that we've stopped the problem from happening to new players, but are continuing to work on a fix for the players who bought the pass during the window where the bug occurred. We expect to have a fix for players in your state out this week.

Honest question: What should we do here? Pulling it from pack collation feels pretty bad for anyone who wants it for Bo3 Standard (or heck, there's people playing that deck in Timeless right now). But I get that opening one feels bad if you're a Bo1-focused Standard player.

What's the more player-friendly option here?