I get that it affects whether the matchmaking is rank or deck-value based, I just don't remember any past events being split like that.
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I get that it affects whether the matchmaking is rank or deck-value based, I just don't remember any past events being split like that.
Before the event it didn't dawn on me that I have to redo every single one of my decks. Ugh.
Does the rotation also mean there will be new standard decks for newcomers, and do older players get those decks for free?
Does the rotation also mean there will be new standard decks for newcomers, and do older players get those decks for free?
Yes, actually the release of M20 already introduced the 5 new mono-colored, new-player decks which only have cards from Guilds of Ravnica forward. You'll get the cards in them when Eldraine releases. https://www.reddit.com/r/MagicArena/comments/c8n800/for_those_of_you_wondering_what_the_m20_starter/
Cool, thanks for the info. But I still really don't look forward to comb through all those cards for hours to upgrade my decks, if they even work at all anymore...
Yeah and the odd loss here and there will really sting. Its very much a Wotc way of doing a thing in arena. I dont know what happened lately but the client was so fantastic early on.
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The two decks I'm running for the event:
The first is a consistent, fairly standard Aristocrats deck.
The second shits all over gates and is pretty solid otherwise.
EDIT: People really didn't tune their decks for this event. They just took cards out of existing decks and replaced them with good enough new ones. I've played gates, elementals, and the mono red 1 power deck thus far exclusively.
The first is a consistent, fairly standard Aristocrats deck.
The second shits all over gates and is pretty solid otherwise.
EDIT: People really didn't tune their decks for this event. They just took cards out of existing decks and replaced them with good enough new ones. I've played gates, elementals, and the mono red 1 power deck thus far exclusively.
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This fairytale set looks meh :( Filler until the next big plane
I am still going to purchase the Mastery Pass, but meh, the focus on Commander and the adventure/cake mechanics don't interest me too much.
I am still going to purchase the Mastery Pass, but meh, the focus on Commander and the adventure/cake mechanics don't interest me too much.
Mark my words, the higher rarity Adventure cards are going to be staple for a while, especially in Bo1 on Arena specifically. Having that kind of flexibility is valuable.
I worry that food tokens are going to make games more of a grind, but I think adventure is a nice mechanic.
What doesn't respect you? This is by far the most generous card game I've played.
Pretty much every decision WotC is taking is the most greedy option available.
the game is weird. it's both way more generous for some players and also more inaccessible for others
when they changed the packs to make sure they gave you rares that you don't already have 4 of, a subset of players (i'm in this category) could basically collect everything while still accumulating wildcards and currency
removing the loot box aspect from packs makes it more generous than most card games, but anything they do to counteract that seems to make it more inaccessible for everyone else without really affecting people in my category too much
for example, making historic wildcards cost 2X only affects people who don't have the cards. when GRN-M20 rotates into historic, whether or not those rares cost 2 wildcards or 1 wildcard won't matter to me because i'll already have 4-of each
when they changed the packs to make sure they gave you rares that you don't already have 4 of, a subset of players (i'm in this category) could basically collect everything while still accumulating wildcards and currency
removing the loot box aspect from packs makes it more generous than most card games, but anything they do to counteract that seems to make it more inaccessible for everyone else without really affecting people in my category too much
for example, making historic wildcards cost 2X only affects people who don't have the cards. when GRN-M20 rotates into historic, whether or not those rares cost 2 wildcards or 1 wildcard won't matter to me because i'll already have 4-of each
I have been getting consistent wins (currently 20 - 1 W/L) with this simic flash deck. Have met every tier 1 deck and it can and often will beat every one of them. Key is to counter their key cards, and then let the wolfs be your brigade until they run out of creatures and answers.¨Its also quite cheap to build.
4 Spectral Sailor (M20) 76
11 Island (ANA) 57
4 Brineborn Cutthroat (M20) 50
1 Faerie Duelist (RNA) 39
4 Nightpack Ambusher (M20) 185
8 Forest (ANA) 60
4 Frilled Mystic (RNA) 174
2 Essence Capture (RNA) 37
2 Quench (RNA) 48
2 Negate (M20) 69
2 Sinister Sabotage (GRN) 54
3 Convolute (M20) 55
1 Temple of Mystery (M20) 255
4 Unsummon (M20) 78
4 Thornwood Falls (M20) 258
4 Growth Spiral (RNA) 178
4 Spectral Sailor (M20) 76
11 Island (ANA) 57
4 Brineborn Cutthroat (M20) 50
1 Faerie Duelist (RNA) 39
4 Nightpack Ambusher (M20) 185
8 Forest (ANA) 60
4 Frilled Mystic (RNA) 174
2 Essence Capture (RNA) 37
2 Quench (RNA) 48
2 Negate (M20) 69
2 Sinister Sabotage (GRN) 54
3 Convolute (M20) 55
1 Temple of Mystery (M20) 255
4 Unsummon (M20) 78
4 Thornwood Falls (M20) 258
4 Growth Spiral (RNA) 178
Is this for the M20 standard event? Because I don't think there are any other tier 1 decks besides Simic flash for that one. Cavalcade red is pretty good but can be shut down early if you force them on the defensive.
I've been using this Rakdos Aggro-istocrats deck. Can get good early momentum against most other decks and Heartfire is a godsend against Nightpack Ambusher. I'm certainly doing better with it in the M20 event than on the normal ladder.
Yeah, I have a similar problem... I know that a mythic wildcard is the best possible item in the booster, but it is a meh reward because:
I only play this game for the rewards on the belief that it will grow into a social/multiplayer game one day. I need more modes to utilize my collection... + drafting is pretty trash when you have large portions of the set.
Had a good run in the GRN draft (one of my best actually) with a solid Boros deck. Cut mercilessly short at the last hurdle by someone who not only drafted 3 Nightveil Predators, but managed to play them turns 4, 5 and 6. I can't even be upset with that.
And the divide is drafting. If you don't play Draft, the game is a way, way slower grind.
I stopped playing Arena because the only way to get enough value out of it from a F2P perspective was to play every day.
Every day.
I felt like I had to put an hour into it every day, which meant I wasn't playing anything else. I don't want that in my life. So I just cut it out entirely.
Every day.
I felt like I had to put an hour into it every day, which meant I wasn't playing anything else. I don't want that in my life. So I just cut it out entirely.
I'm going to end up at level 95 with most of the Core 2020 rares playing once every 3 days at most other than the first week.
You can max XP playing every 3 days, but you're leaving a lot of gold on the table.
Yeah all I wanted was gold for drafts.
I did some rough math once converting gold to gems and realized that I was earning a little less than a dollar per hour in game credit. Maybe that's generous for F2P standards. But I didn't like the feeling of being beholden to play every single day just to get some gold to draft when the draft was what was actually fun for me.
I realized I was basically "working" (i.e., doing something not fun - and playing Standard isn't fun to me - I get bored of decks too quickly) to be able to do what I really wanted to do - draft. And I'm not going to work for <$1/hour. If I want to draft, I'll drop $20 on a pack of gems (I skipped Core 20 and will probably buy a pack of gems for Eldraine).
But now I'm no longer "working" in my evenings, and I'm back to enjoying them. I'd stopped watching new shows, or playing other games on my Switch, or reading books, or whatever. It wasn't healthy and I wasn't enjoying it. So I stopped. That's what the right thing was for me.
I took a couple of months off Arena when it was feeling more like work than fun. I came back a few weeks ago and, realising that I'm not worse off for missing all that time, I'm enjoying it a lot more. I don't feel like I'm wasting anything if I don't feel like playing it a given night. Maybe I'll just enjoy a few games to clear the quests, or maybe I'll just keep playing beyond that because I feel like it. Either way that break was important for making me realise how little the day-to-day rewards actually mattered to me.
I like how auto passing is still mostly just for show. If it doesn't even skip my combat step, what is it really doing?
There should definitely be cheaper drafts where you don't get to keep the cards. That is something Hearthstone does much better. And Gwent. And probably every other game with similar modes.
It was the best part about Artifact. You could even do phantom draft with your friends.
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Here's the English article
I really don't buy into the conspiracy theory that this was the plan all along. It seems more likely they don't know what they're doing and aren't thinking things through.
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I somewhat believed it was deliberate up until the first State of the Beta afterwards, since letting it linger for that long risks backfiring too much.
I know it's weird to have a negative reaction to something in my favour, but this latest flip flop really reduces my confidence in the game. 2 years of running Arena and it's still a broken operation when it comes to PR. 2:1 was obviously going to provoke outrage, and I assumed they were wise enough to only make that decision if it was worth the blowback. But no, they either can't predict an obvious consequence, or they are intentionally flip flopping to prove they listen to the community.
They've been doubling back on so many of these obviously unpopular moves that it really shakes your faith in whoever's making the decisions over there. I honestly don't care either way on stuff like historic or the Mastery Pass - I'm just here for drafts and killing time. But if you make a decision on how to implement something, stick to it! If you're just gonna end up doing whatever the community complains about, just ask them first and save us all the time.
Meh, whether it was planned or not, I'm happy they are not going with the clearly worse plan.
The incompetence of WotC is truely astounding. At this point you really have to wonder who is runningg things over there. It's ridicolous that they flip flop on pretty much every single decision. What did they expect? Are they really this dense?
PS: And people should really stop "congratulating WotC for listening", it's unbelievable they came up with this nonsense in the first place.
PS: And people should really stop "congratulating WotC for listening", it's unbelievable they came up with this nonsense in the first place.
The company accomodating every request by the community does not tire me at all. It feels like a fresh thing looking at the feedback loop in MTGA community.
The "deal with it", or "soon", or "your feedback is important to us, but not enough to act on it" companies are the tiring ones ;(
It's not unbelievable and it is perfectly fine. The people running this obviously aren't great at business. They do at least listen to feedback.
Not counting for daily wins though? Guess I'll never play.
Your post came across as saying "they tried their best" while to me that is just not an excuse for a business of this size. They keep making obviously bad decisions and then having to back track them, at some point that's just not enough anymore and they need to make reasonable decisions in the first place.
Do they though? They rolled it back before it affected anyone. It's simple to say they should always make the best decisions, but that's not actually a reasonable request.
They tried their best sounds like an excuse. I'm not making one for them and they don't need an excuse. They've listened and responded to feedback.
I'm not sure how anyone is trying to spin any of this as negative. I fucking WISH other companies listened to feedback as cleanly as Wizards has with Arena. Yeah, they've kneejerk changed tons of things - ALWAYS in the customer's favor. Most companies would let this roll for months befor ethey did anything, if they ever did at all considering it's fucking legacy style play that will probably draw little meaningful ire in the long run no matter what they do.
These aren't difficult decisions they are making. They are incompetent.
Now they've promised putting 'new' cards into historic. They don't know how to sell them, and they don't know how to balance a format. It's going to be a complete mess.
The core game is still good though.
Now they've promised putting 'new' cards into historic. They don't know how to sell them, and they don't know how to balance a format. It's going to be a complete mess.
The core game is still good though.
I love mtg and i love mtga but never give corporations the benefit of the doubt. There's always a game here and the costumer is always being played. They have multiple people on payroll whose whole profession and prior education is all focused into figuring out exactly how much you can charge someone for something. The initial announcement and rollback could have just entirely been to sneak the 'no getting win rewards in historic' change in unnoticed. Historic is already a format that's going to be very prone to getting 'solved' very fast every season with some seasons not changing the meta at all, without any rewards it's going to turn the queue into a graveyard and funnel players into the non eternal formats that require more regular cash infusions. Is that the entirety of the story for this particular announcement and rollback? Probably not, but you can bet they know exactly how much they are or are not projected to be making with this or any other changes they announce and this pattern has repeated too many times to brush it off as either managerial incompetence or an example of wise acquiescence to player feedback.
Okay so I've been out of the country for a few weeks and missed a lot of the wotc drama. Good to hear they reversed the historic wildcard crap.
But I wanna make sure I didn't miss-understand something I saw. Are they not including Arena redemption codes with the paper Brawl precons? Because that feels pretty crappy. That seems like an easy cross promotion and something I would have bought in maybe two decks.
Also how was brawl event? I'm pretty bummed I missed that. Feel like it might have some legs on Arena?
But I wanna make sure I didn't miss-understand something I saw. Are they not including Arena redemption codes with the paper Brawl precons? Because that feels pretty crappy. That seems like an easy cross promotion and something I would have bought in maybe two decks.
Also how was brawl event? I'm pretty bummed I missed that. Feel like it might have some legs on Arena?
I enjoyed it, mechanically it seems sound and some of the new cards were fun to play around with. Most criticism was around the balancing of the precons and whether or not they were actually shite without the commander. I don't think anyone had any actual issues with the format (beyond the criticisms that already exist against the format in paper, like the singleton-esque restrictions).
It seems like the kind of format that's open to more variety than standard constructed, so I'm looking forward to that at least.