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There's some more stuff we have planned for the deckbuilder, but favoriting in the sense you are talking about isn't currently on the roadmap. I'm interested to hear more about how people would want to use that sort of feature though, so I know where the current pain points are.

We shipped a fix for that in the last release (May). Let me know if you are still experiencing it.

This is definitely on my list, and I even tried to do it one afternoon only to find out the booster data isn't readily available when in the deck builder. I can't comment on when we'll implement it, but we are well aware, and it annoys me too.

Definitely! This is more about streamlining deck building for those who want it than removing features that people enjoy. If you want to manually make every land a different printing, you will still be able to do that in the designs we have been looking at.

Cool feature requests, here's my feedback:

1. Sometimes it's hard to keep context between matches because the match scene is different from the out-of-match scene. Seems like a good QOL addition, if it's easy.
2. This one is probably a little harder, but I can see the utility of not breaking the friend challenge between matches. I think it would be something we could only do through the friend menu, (not direct challenge) but it's an interesting suggestion.
3. I'd love more random options. Like random pets for example, or random avatars. I always used to play Street Fighter using the random fighter button, so random decks sounds fun like that. I agree there would have to be some limit to the selection to make it work, maybe favorite, I'd have to put some thought into how that works from the UX standpoint. I like the idea, though.
4. This would have to only be for friend challenges because competitively no one wants to give up the knowledge of a card ...

Not sure when we get there, but this is definitely something on our radar. As the game gets more and more lands (and card reprints!) with each set, the collection interface gets filled with lots of duplicate information. I'd like to be able to collapse duplicate cards into a singular item with selectable printings, but that's a fair amount of work for the UI.

Keeping an eye on this thread for other feedback. Thanks for bringing this up!

We weren't aware this change was coming, so a big shoutout to those of you who brought it up with some time to spare! Twitter's cool and all, but Jay and I are much more likely to catch things here, which is what happened this time. I'm glad we were able to solve this without disruption to anyone's game.

Working on fixing it, but the solution ended up being more involved than initially expected (and why we didn't have time to get it fixed for May). It's one of my priorities for the M21 release. Sorry for the wait!

Folders are definitely an often requested feature - but we've been thinking more about custom tagging on decks as a solution to some of the organization problems. Reasoning: it wouldn't require a refactor of the page and it could be more powerful than folders - each deck would only be in one folder but could have multiple tags.

Local deck store sounds neat. You probably wouldn't be able to play a deck until you moved it onto the server, but I could see having a page of stored decks. This would still require some refactoring of the manager, because right now it loads all of your decks at once. Maybe as just a filesystem function? I'll look take a look at it, but no promises. :)

An unintended consequence of adding the "View Battlefield" button after the match. We're working on getting it fixed but I don't know the ETA, because it's not my team.

Hello!

When we moved deck favorites to the server (initially they were only saved locally) an unintended consequence was that the deck builder ended up squashing them when it saved the deck.

I fixed this last week, so it should be in the next big update.

Check to see if you have 16 cards in the sideboard (including a companion). I just fixed this bug, but it won't be released for a bit.

Thanks for writing this out, we love kitchen table magic too! (I was just brewing an Act of Treason / Lukka / Yidaro deck with one of our producers for play queue shenanigans) Many of the ideas you listed have been part of our conversations, so I think hopefully, we are on the same wavelength with how we will end up solving these problems in the future.

One thing I mentioned in another thread is the idea of being careful with specific daily quests because they can affect the meta. That's why a lot of them seem "vanilla". For example: we tried out some more focused ones - like "Create X Tokens" - and it pushed players towards making token generating decks with no win condition, which wasn't fun for anyone. I personally think it would be fun to have achievements someday that function like the quests you are talking about, but are achievable only once.

Thanks again for the feedback. See you around!

But the incentive to get more cards is shared by Johnny, Timmy and Spike. Timmy needs those cards to get big creatures, and Johnny needs diversity to build his jank.

I still love these archetypes and think about them a lot as I work on the game. It's cool that they are public knowledge, and that players can use them to talk about design in an informed way.

I agree that there is a real need to provide a healthy reward structure for players who are looking for fun, "kitchen-table" games of magic. I don't have any solutions to share, but I will tell you it's something we are currently talking about in leadership and design meetings. This is a great thread and reading people's responses definitely informs our opinions. Thanks for reposting it!

Yeah, that seems lame. I have Unity open right now so I'll see if it's a quick fix.

No promises; there are sometimes UX patterns that are to make sure users don't get lost. I wouldn't want someone to think "Where'd my decks go?", but it sounds fine in theory.

The problem with less "vanilla" quests is that they shape the meta more than we like.

We tried a "Create X Tokens" quest and people were playing decks with all token generation and no win condition. It wasn't fun for them or for their opponents, and it also wasn't really a game of Magic anymore.

I think you're thinking more in the Achievements space. Those would definitely be fun to do once or twice, but not every day. If we ever do an achievement system, we will definitely include some quests with more interesting conditions.

We have added tracker support for picks and scene transitions in this release. Next release should have tracking for all the rest of the cards in the pack (probably what you are actually interested in). Sorry, this is taking longer than than it should have.

I don't have the specifics of the log messages in front of me, but I could find it if you still need it.

See if you have 16 cards in your sideboard. There is currently a bug in which we don't warn you when you have 16 cards in your sideboard (including the companion).

👋 Hi

There are a bunch of us that are active on Reddit, so commenting and voicing your concerns here isn't a bad place for feedback.

Re: Daily play rewards. We are currently looking at some solutions for Daily / Weekly rewards that don't as heavily incentivize wins versus play. No schedule for when these changes would take place, but we are talking about it and looking at feedback and data from players. Thanks for letting us know!

Right on both accounts, also icon size.