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If you're talking about the chat bug with 40+ messages, that should be fixed. Let me know if you are still having other problems with chat.

Would the ability to put a custom tag on your deck and search for those tags solve some of your problems? We currently aren't planning on raising the deck limit, but we are talking about ways to better display and organize them.

Just to clarify your feedback. Are you talking about when drafting, in your collection view, or when you see them in other people's decks? (Or all of the above?)

We are currently collecting feedback about these styles and talking about possible settings changes. Nothing concrete yet, but it is a current topic of conversation.

Talked with one of our other designers about this to get an idea of when it might get fixed.

Currently, you can't assign multiple blockers at the same time when the attacker has any restrictions (like menace). It's really lame, and people do want to get it fixed, but it also involves rewriting that part of the combat manager. So sadly, it's not a super trivial fix. That's the only insight I can give, sorry I can't be of more help.

I haven't been working on a "Maybeboard", but there's a cool feature that I'm testing around right now that would really improve deckbuilding. That's all I can say, for now, I still have to get it approved. :D

Wow, this was a lot of work putting this together. I love the passion you have for the game. It's always easier to start the conversation with images and possible solutions. Here are some answers to your questions:

1. We try to reduce information in the UX when we can, but keep it accessible. Magic is a complicated game, and having tons of extra things to look on the screen isn't always helpful for decision making. This is one of those instances where hiding it until pulled up is trying to thread that needle between over and under sharing information.
2. I'm not a rule dev: u/WotC_BenFinkel
3. This is to minimize crossing lines during a complicated blocking situation, but I will say it annoys me too sometimes. +1
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There are a couple of problems with companion and sideboarding right now. One is during a reconnect, one is with sideboarding in general with a companion. Both should be fixed with the May release.

Sorry, I can't offer any quick fixes - other than not playing a companion if you want to sideboard :( Thanks for your patience, the fix is on the way!

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Yes, we like tags better than folders too; that's the direction we want to go in the future.

We've mocked up some compact mode ideas in the past, with smaller deck boxes, but I agree a list view (with tags and stats!) would be a lot more exciting, for me. But that's an entirely new page, so it's a lot harder to get the work scheduled.

Dropdowns should be easy, I'll see what I can do.

Hello!

I've been trying to add deck builder improvements as I can, so it's nice to see what people are interested in.

Deck status: We've got some features in the pipeline around "Wish List" decks as you call it, so I think we're on the same page there. We currently don't have any plans for a higher tier of favorite. Although I can envision how it might work from a UX perspective, I don't expect it to be a priority for us any time in the near future.

Deck number: I'm not a server programmer, however, I'm pretty sure it has nothing to do with storage but with server bandwidth. The game is server-authoritative, which means we don't store any information on the client. So every time you ask for your decks we have to send you all of them. I think the current number of decks is designed not to take down our services if people are making lots of requests. (more basically, if people ask for too much data at once we end up DDOS'ing ourselves) On top of that, our de...

Yeah, I think the toggle's days are numbered.

It was initially designed to clean up the UI for new players. It's hard enough to decide which queue you want to play in as a new player, but 2x-ing every queue makes the decision even harder. Also, BO3 is MUCH more skills testing, another reason not to send new players there (other than game length).

That all said, none of us particularly like how it works right now, and there is a good design in the pipeline about how to fix that part of the UI. I can't commit to a timeline, but it is one of my priorities to get fixed as soon as I am able to schedule the resources.

Fixed on my local computer now. I will try to get the check-in as soon as possible. Thanks for bringing this up, it had definitely slipped through the cracks.

I am not on the team that does deals with in-match animations, but I pinged that team to say this is still a problem.

Yeah, that sounds really lame. I will look into it and see what I can figure out.

Hello yugo, welcome to the Arena!

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I like to watch u/LegenVD on YouTube. He really talks through his thought process and it's very helpful for Limited or Constructed. https://www.youtube.com/user/LegenVD

Hi Dave,

I'm glad you stuck with it and finally beat the level! The big ideas that the Color Challenges are trying to teach are WHEN to cast your spells, but it sounds like you are stuck on HOW to cast spells.

I would replay the tutorial, as some have suggested, or you could watch this video that explains the basics:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZyXU1L3JXk

Good luck!

Hello! I just confirmed this bug will be fixed in the next release. So, hang tight, the fix is on the way.

In general, because of all the work required in releasing an update - testing, staging, deploying, etc. - we usually only do one big release per month. That testing phase can actually take weeks after "stabilization" i.e. no more bug fixes, so sometimes things stay unaddressed for longer than we would like. It's definitely frustrating for us devs as well to have completed the work that's not live yet, but without proper testing, there would be many more problems.

Thanks for the feedback and keep on bringing things to our attention. I try to read through the posts here most days and make sure nothing has slipped through the cracks.

Nope, we can't participate in tournaments, but we can do FNMs under a few conditions. I haven't played in a big tournament since 2001 when I was very into L5R, so it doesn't affect me too much.

One thing that's hard as a designer is recognizing your own bias, and accounting for it. I may play in ladder one night and see the same deck multiple times, and that deck might having amazing draws every time. It's super frustrating! But, that doesn't really mean the deck is too strong - humans just like to make patterns out of randomness.

We look at the large amounts of data to make those sorts of recommendations and work with Studio X (the part of the company that makes the cards) to figure out what is too oppressive to be in a format. Playing against the real meta definitely helps you figure out what you want to look for in the data.

Personally, I don't play meta-decks in ranked. I usually play this weird Bioessense Hydra deck I have, because I love it and it's fun until gold.

Mostly, this is about fairness to the players. We already have a lot of unfair advantage from playing with the cards sooner than the public, we don't need to add freebies on top of that.

On dev environments (where it's just employees) we can have as many WC and Gems as we want. So we have a lot of fun testing the events and sets before the players get to them. But on production, I personally enjoy trying to collect 1x every card every set (I love Brawl). See you out there!

Ha! You beat Lee? I will have to tease him tomorrow. Let me guess, he was playing mono-red? :D

Yes, Arena devs don't get cards for free, we have to play or pay for them just like everyone else. "We are the players that make the game" is on the wall in the studio.