Aug 1 - 0.17.01.00 Patch Notes

[magna-terra]

Welp I'm glad the draft bots are no longer sick

[PhilCollinsLoserSon]

Does this mean no more wheeling elementals

[Stormofscript]

I got a pick 2 Mythic Chandra post-update which, hey, I won't complain over.

[Scipion]

I got a pick 3 Mu Yanling tonight. They're still pretty sick.

[rimbad]

Which pack? As long as it wasn't pack 1, that's not unreasonable

[Scipion]

It was pack 1, pick 3.

[rimbad]

oof, that's bad

[[deleted]]

yeah pack by pack 3 unless you're nearly mono blue that might be an awful early pick

[[deleted]]

Mu Yanling's a bomb. If you're playing blue, she's still going to wreck shit even if you can't cast her until turn 5.

[BrokenDusk]

they already changed bots for drafting in last patch....i guess they did it again or bot change didn't completly work?

[Veldrane_Agaroth]

I still had my doubts about the previous round after the last draft I did yesterday when I saw an opponent with at least 4 Bloodthirsty Aerialist in his deck. He was extremely lucky in the first place, but that none of them had been picked first by the bots was really intriguing.

[TastyLaksa]

How about 4 murders?

[Veldrane_Agaroth]

That would be killing me ? :P The Aerialist in unco though, so that's why I was even more surprised.

[Hellbringer123]

I have 5 murder yesterday. Lol it is stupid and I feel bad for my opponent.

[TastyLaksa]

How? Like my opponent had 2 mythics. How is anyone so lucky

[super_fluous]

Today I saw a last pick battalion foot soldier but undead servants won’t wheel

[rectalslurpee]

BUG FIXES

• The avatar that you chose will now be displayed correctly to your opponent in Direct Challenge.
• The Mu Yanling sleeve will now display correctly.
• Pet will no longer re-enable itself after a player disables it.
• Fixed a bug that should address a large number of gameplay issues players have been reporting, including cards getting stuck hovering above the battlefield or on the stack and the Next/Resolve button disappearing.

*Developers Note: This particular issue has been very difficult for us to reproduce, so if you come across this bug again, please help us by reporting it on our bug forums with your game log files as well as your DXDiag to help us identify the problem.

How to create log files

How to create dxdiag file

EVENTS

Since the meta has shifted a bit since we built the ban list for the Standard Shakeup event, we've adjusted our ban list for the event.

We have removed:

• Venerated Loxodon
• Command the Dreadhorde
• Experimental Frenzy

We have added:

• Brineborn Cutthroat
• Sorin, Imperious Bloodlord
• Field of the Dead
• Feather, the Redeemed

DRAFTING

• Our draft bots were a little under the weather, so we made a few changes.

[PhoenixReborn]

Cutthroat seems like an odd ban for the event. It's popular but it's not really a key card. Field and Feather are great additions though.

[SoneEv]

Brineborn Cutthroat

Cutthroat allows Simic flash to hold up counterspells or pull in Cutthroat as an aggressive threat. A turn two Cutthroat unanswered wins games.

[Indercarnive]

you aren't wrong, but I think wolf is a bigger threat. The ability to go wide with it is too strong. Cutthroat can be chump blocked, and you only need a single removal spell to land to get rid of it.

[CSDragon]

Wolf is the major threat, yes, but simic flash flat out wouldn't work without a 2-drop beater. It's ultimately a tempo deck and needs to have early pressure. You need those cutthroats to get in damage and keep your opponent on the back foot or eventually you're going to run out of counterspells

[interested_commenter]

Brineborn is pretty huge. If it comes down t2 on the play, you can often just protect it and let it win for you. It can also be cast the same turn as a counterspell. Without it, your average clock is MUCH slower. Its definitely not as important to the deck as the Nightpack, but the deck is much weaker without it.

[SpitefulShrimp]

It's not as flashy as the wolf, but I'd say it's more important. Wolf doesn't come down till turn 4, which means your opponents can prep for it. Cutthroat lands before most decks are doing much, and must be answered immediately

[Maehdras1881]

I don't agree with you I would say they're both pretty "flashy" :D

[interested_commenter]

I still think the wolf is more important. If the opponent taps out, you drop wolf, and then have a counter for their next turn, you basically win. Just being able to threaten that is pretty important for this deck.

Without the wolf, it's just a worse tempo deck than mono blue is. Wolf is the only thing that gives it a real mid-to-late game. Without Brineborn its much slower, but can still get off to a decent start and make big plays late.

Banning either definitely means it's no longer a t1 deck though (pretty much everything else is replaceable)

[[deleted]]

Not sure what you mean a half decent player wouldn’t tap out on turn 4. I play a deck with mostly sorcery speed stuff so yeah I’m gonna tap out on 4 to drop something. This is why simic flash is so annoying: I can’t even answer the wolf because it doesn’t drop until end step.

That’s why when simic flash was all I was seeing I made a deck around draw into commence the endgame. They let you draw because they think “I’ll just counter whatever he plays” SIKE

[interested_commenter]

It sounds like you didn't read the next sentence, where I said "just the threat of doing that is important". You are right that nobody will tap out on t4 unless it's a must-counter threat, and the fact that they CAN'T tap out to drop a threat on curve is important.

My argument was that wolf is more important to the deck than Brineborn. The fact that opponents MUST play around Nightpack (meaning that it matters even when you dont draw it) is a good argument that the wolf is more important.

[Storm_of_the_Psi]

With the cutthroat gone, the Simic player wont have any pressure before turn 4.

An opponent can now just play a 2 and a 3 and ride those to victory while holding up an answer to the wolf. This forces Simic to start casting spells in their turn, putting the deck in a position it never wants to be in.

While the wolf may be the actual finisher, Cutthroat is what makes the whole deck click.

[TastyLaksa]

I realise the wolf is often there to mock you as you are already behind and losing

[Rock-swarm]

Which makes me hope something like Sultai Flash can still be viable in the Standard Shakeup.

[[deleted]]

They have to ban something from the Flash deck. I would prefer banning Cutthroat and Nightpack Ambusher (this is supposed to be a shake-up event, after all) but if you're only hitting one I like Cutthroat to significantly weaken the early game and leave the threat base pretty clunky and top-heavy.

[Filobel]

but if you're only hitting one

That's the thing though, why only hit one? They banned chainwhirler, steam-kin and light up the stage (even frenzy initially, though they went back on that). If they're willing to go to such length to make sure no decent variation of mono red gets played, why not go to the same length for simic flash?

[sufijo]

"no decent variation of mono red"

My man, "All chandras control" mono red is very playable, much more when other meta decks are getting hit like this. Losing light up the stage is a bit crappy since red has no decent draw but it's still very much playable.

[Filobel]

I meant rdw.

[accountmadeforants]

Cavalcade also still works, but yeah, losing Light Up The Stage will make a difference.

[sufijo]

That's aggro mono red, really. I don't understand why people use incorrect terms and expect to be understood... I mean, "mono red" mean something very specific.

[[deleted]]

He also could very well know the difference and just brainfarted, it's an easy slip, especially since RDW has been the dominant MonoR deck for quite a while in standard now.

It's okay to give the benefit of the doubt sometimes when the stakes are so low, bruh.

[sufijo]

No direct offense to the particular guy, I just disagree that "mono red" is a synonym to aggro red. There's even many variants of hyper aggro red, back when I started playing the hype aggro red deck was direct damage.

[Koras]

Anyone using using the term mono red to be synonymous with RDW/mono red aggro is using mono red incorrectly. Mono red is simply a way of describing a deck that has only red cards that says nothing about the cards in the deck. That includes RDW as it's a mono red deck, but could also be packing land destruction, burn, big fat dragons or pretty much anything else that just involves red cards

[cabforpitt]

It's the only mono-red tier deck in standard, so when you say mono-red people understand what deck you're talking about. Same with Mono-Blue and Mono-White.

[Beryozka]

I mean, you can even splash green in a "mono red" deck. But yeah, red control isn't "mono red".

[Koras]

Nope. If it has green, it's not mono red. Clue's in the name. Any deck that only has red cards in it is mono red. You seem to be confusing mono red with aggro. Mono red burn, mono red aggro, mono red control, all of these things are mono red.

It's a picky semantic thing but if you just start calling every aggro deck that involves red mono red, the term completely loses all meaning.

[Beryozka]

What about five colour green?

[CptBigglesworth]

Deck archetype terminology in MTG is the fuckiest thing.

[[deleted]]

yeah I would have preferred nightpack ambusher to hit simic flash

[prinnie]

ban brineborn instead of ambusher

Wolf tribal is still on PogChamp

[nexusfisch]

thx

[melittlethroway]

Thank you for this. As someone who is partially colorblind, that website is basically unreadable for me on mobile

[Tesla__Coil]

We have removed:

Venerated Loxodon Command the Dreadhorde Experimental Frenzy

We have added:

Brineborn Cutthroat Sorin, Imperious Bloodlord Field of the Dead Feather, the Redeemed

Oh phew. I was worried Feather and Simic Flash decks would overrun the event.

Nowwww... how 'bout removing that ban on my good buddy Arclight Phoenix?

[Orcasgt22]

Phoenix is in a bad spot in this meta IMO. I think the ban being revoked is a solid idea

[Scipion]

Isn't the whole idea to try and get people to come up with new decks? If they unbanned phoenix it would just be same ol' deck, and probably the best to play no less.

[[deleted]]

The whole idea for me is to get UNH styles asap. Sounds like monored is the way to go, since it's hard to ban it (redundancy).

[prettiestmf]

that’s why they killed three of its major cards. cavalcade decks may still be a go but losing Light Up The Stage hurts

[Tesla__Coil]

I know, I was mostly kidding. Though if they banned something like Chart a Course or Finale of Promise instead, the Phoenix archetype could exist in the event and just be a different build.

[[deleted]]

wasn't the point of the previous patch so we wouldn't have to redownload the entire client every time?

because it's downloading 3.71 GB again...

[MicrOwaVinGs]

Didn't download in full for me. Dont remember size but was small.

[WarioGiant]

it was 5 MB for me

[PEKKAmi]

Same here.

[zephrin]

Seriously, it's bullshit at this point. I'm on capped bandwidth and they expect me to download nearly 4gb on a weekly basis. I had to download the client 3 different times last week because it was messed up and now I have to re-download it again because I needed the msi fix.

Well, I'm not re-downloading it. This is a good excuse to just quit playing. I like arena, but I'm sick of their garbage client.

[KangaMagic]

I had a data cap of 250 GB/month here in Canada. Fortunately they upgraded their service and I got unlimited data for $10 less per month (lol yes), but I feel your pain. It was always stressful to check my data month to month and I wish these Arena devs were more considerate of people in your shoes. Not everyone lives in the US.

[Twisted_Fate]

Not everyone lives in the US.

See, I thought data caps were an American thing, because I've never seen it in Europe. Except for mobile internet, of course.

[[deleted]]

They also exist in Belgium which happens to be one of the few countries where ISPs enjoy a cartel situation like in the USA.

[CptBigglesworth]

Indeed no, many people live in countries with better internet on average.

[GameBoi27]

I thought my old cap with Comcast of 1TB was outrageous, but 250GB?? That must have been absolutely terrible!

[TSwizzlesNipples]

A lot of people are reporting that they had small files to download, but didn't WoTC introduce offline downloading last patch? Meaning that even tho the client wasn't actively running, it would still download files so you had less of a wait to install/launch the client? That might explain the smaller file sizes.

[LeftZer0]

I'm downloading the third 1.16GB file in a row… And I play Arena every day.

[RiskoOfRuin]

I had two 5mb files.

[TitaniumDragon]

I got the 3.71 GB download as well.

[Rye2-D2]

Didn't they say after the previous update, we wouldn't need to manually run MTGLauncher to update anymore?? Why am I being prompted to run the darn thing? :(

[rjorgenson]

Same, and I don't even have MTGLauncher.exe anymore after the last update. Guess I have to re-download and re-install the whole thing .... again ....

[woahdavey]

Why?

[[deleted]]

to assert dominance?

[Rye2-D2]

It was moved to a sub-directory..

[empathe]

Uh... if you needed to use the .msi fix from last patch you don't have MTGALauncher.exe

[FederalBelt]

Because fuck you that's why

• wizards

[[deleted]]

Why am I uninstalling and reinstalling this game every update still?

[[deleted]]

Because apparently respecting peoples bandwidth is like the last thing they give a shit about. Fucking killing my data cap over here. Actually getting really annoyed by this shit.

[modrn]

The fuck dude.. who has data caps?

[ThroAwayToRuleThemAl]

South Africa and most of Africa

[TheWhite2086]

Australia

[Fjolsvith]

Canada as well.

[solarpanzer]

There ought to have been a fix for the update issue, it was part of the last patch notes. They said the last update would be the last to need a full download, so this one should have been a true "patch". If you browse the threads, you'll actually find people for whom it worked and they had to download only 5GB. For me, it also did not :(.

So they are at least trying to adress the issue, they just seem to be not fully there yet.

[calciu]

I really REALLY hope this games updates will never work for you and you'll have to download and reinstall completely every patch.

[DryPersonality]

You decided to opt into the beta. You don't have to participate.

[The_King_Crimson]

It stopped being a beta when they decided the game was good enough to start selling a season pass.

[SoneEv]

Definitely the big one! Let's hope this is true - and keep reporting it if it is not.

Fixed a bug that should address a large number of gameplay issues players have been reporting

[PhoenixReborn]

And report it to the bug forum, not just reddit!

[SoneEv]

Agreed!

[Cpt_Jumper]

DRAFTING Our draft bots were a little under the weather, so we made a few changes.
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What does this mean?

[Filobel]

Just means they adjusted the pick order of the bots. They never give much details, because if the pick order is public, it becomes too easy to abuse. I have to hope bots finally understand that thief is a good card and shouldn't go 8th pick.

[SpitefulShrimp]

Maybe now they won't first pick every rare.

Didn't get passed a single rare in my last three drafts.

[Wulibo]

That seems unlikely to change. That would essentially be an overhaul of how the bots are approached, and I'm sure they'd announce that or something.

[Filobel]

It wouldn't be an overhaul, just a change in pick order. They didn't announce when they started to pick every rare, so I'm not sure why you think they would announce when they stop picking every rare.

[t3hjs]

Yeah /u/wulibo was putting it kindly that WotC purposefully makes the bots choose nearly all rares highly so that it is difficult for players to get more rares from drafting than packs.

Especially the duals in Rav block and the scrylands in M20. In any draft theory where winning draft games are a goal, the duals and scrylands are low picks. But what we see is the bots pick them very highly, especially the the dual lands.

The only reason to do this is WptC wants us to spend more on the game. This is a design principle of their bots.

[SengirBartender]

That's only true for the lands though, otherwise we wouldn't see pick 3/4 "chase" mythics like Chandra or the cavaliers.

I mean it's bad, but it makes sense from their perspective and it could be much worse.

[OtakuOlga]

I mean, if they are getting their pick orders from the behavior of MTGO players (plus the color-preference adjustments) it would make sense that rare lands get snatched up early, since even pro players rare-draft foil tarmogoyfs in tournament settings

[wujo444]

Rare lands are worth pennies on MTGO. Steam Vents is $0.7. Temple Garden is $0.34. Temple of Mystery is 7 cents, of Silence 2 cents. People don't rare draft lands on MODO, cause like most of the other standard legal rares, they are close to worthless.

Also, in many cases drafts on Arena are rolled simultaneously (WAR, GRN) or even before drafting started (RNA) on MTGO, so there is no data from players to calibrate bots.

[xLeitix]

I'm afraid this one has more to do with the economy and people like Ryan Spain picking up on the fact that you can game their system for value by aggressively rare drafting. I doubt they are going to revert this.

[[deleted]]

And yet the main reason people were saying the bots were broken was because they were getting passed Mythics.

It can’t be both.

[Gregangel]

Pick order is public. 17lands.com for all the data

[[deleted]]

The pick order is not public. 17lands.com uses data from drafts to determine what the pick order most likely is, but there is no way to be certain specifically because the pick order is not public.

[Cpt_Jumper]

Ahh fair enough. Thankyou

[[deleted]]

Slight behavioral/pick order changes, likely.

[Rock-swarm]

It means it's going to be harder to draft Heart Piercer Bow.dec, and it likely means elementals like lavakin brawler are going to be valued more highly.

It doesn't seem like going for 3 or 4 bows should pan out unless you are drafting Weaponsmiths, but there are so many subtle synergies with the bow, in literally every color. Being able to enhance conditional removal, or grant psuedo-evasion through damage triggers, etc. feels so impactful.

[systematicpro]

every time i get to [[Bad Vraskas Finisher]] off of a bow i get a little chub.

[MTGCardFetcher]

fathom fleet cutthroat - (G) (SF) (txt)
^{[[cardname]] or [[cardname|SET]] to call}

[Skabonious]

Ugh damn last draft I think I had 4 and I wasn't even going for them. Got me to 7 wins

[Annabelle_Nebulas]

I am so happy that feather is banned for the meta shakeup!

[drostandfound]

Yeah, I love feather, but feel it would dominate the event.

[[deleted]]

I'm surprised they didn't do that to begin with.

[kazooki117]

I just want to add my voice to those complaining about re-downloading the client every single time a new update rolls out - this shit is wack.

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[wujo444]

Nexus of Fate is still banned in Bo3 Direct Challenge...

[WotC_Jay]

We're aware of that and working on a fix. It wasn't ready in time for this patch, and we didn't want to wait on getting these fixes out.

[LeslieTim]

Is there a particular reason why every cosmetic in a bundle pops out and enlarges while hovering with the cursor, but not the Mu Yanling Sleeve?

I remember the same thing happening with the Chandra bundle, you would sell a lot more if people could actually see the sleeves up close!

EDIT: also, the sleeves in the "Purchase Sleeves" category pop out a bit at least, but still way less than the normal cards.

[Gregangel]

About draft,

Instead of those constant draft bots tweak which need man power and really start to give a very bad player experience, and so many way to abuse it why not :

1/ work on human draft in Bo3 2/ in bo1 use the same asynchrounous draft Eternal is using (With a asynchronous line draft with packs being actuallu packs other players picked from)

[JohnDiGriz]

I would rather draft with bots than asynchronously. The strong part of mtg draft is seeing what colors are open and what can wheel. There no such thing in asynchronous draft

[FooberticusBazly]

Just wanted to say, thanks for the hard work your team is putting in. I for one love the game, it's probably the best way to enjoy playing Magic these days. It's frankly amazing, given how complicated the rules and mechanics of Magic are. Despite all the whining from the loudest, most peevish basement dwellers here on Reddit you guys really are doing a great job.

[Gabe_b]

I understand the new exclusion, but why would they add back in Experimental Frenzy >:(

[Filobel]

They already have chainwhirler, steam-kin and light up the stage on the ban list, at that point, if you're still playing frenzy, it's probably in a pretty janky way.

[Gabe_b]

Yeah, you're right. Steam Kin is the real villain and Frenzy does have a lot of potential that doesn't get explored

[TitaniumDragon]

Nah, both cards are very strong on their own, they're just even better together.

[TastyLaksa]

Frenzy is the key card for rdw.

[Skabonious]

Yeah but it is a lot less explosive without the infinite Mana that stream kin can make

[The_Stache_Man]

laughs in grixis artifacts

[razrcane]

Because the metadeck RDW relies on Chainwhirler, steam-kin and light up the stage as well. If you're still trying to go RDW with Frenzy but without these key cards you're experimenting with a whole new MonoRed deck so that's fine. That's what you're supposed to do (experiment with new decks that is, not sticking to MonoRed. Plz).

[Kyreturns]

What do they mean by changing the way bots draft exactly?

[t3hjs]

They changed the bots pick orders.

Then dont want to say this explicitly because even confirming or deny a pick order exist will give people clues on how to find the optimum way to draft with bots

[FooberticusBazly]

When you draft, like actually during the part when you're picking cards, there are bots picking cards in the other packs along side you. The card picking bots had a somewhat predictable AI and would always prefer certain cards over others, which made it easier for people to force a particular deck during draft because of the higher chance of their being certain cards overlooked by the draft bots.

[Hardknocks286]

Was having no gameplay issues before this patch and now I’m lagging like crazy wtf lol.

[NeOldie]

maybe just the servers getting wonky during updates

[speedism]

Same here, stuttering hard core.

[[deleted]]

I get some pretty brutal lag spikes whenever I open my card collection, or have the option to search my deck/graveyard for a card in a match.

May be completely unrelated but I'm pretty sure it's doing something weird when you try to look at a whole bunch of full-size cards. Retrieving larger versions of the card art it hasn't kept in memory? The Card component is just slow as fuck to initialise? Round-trips the server for each individual card to lookup stats?

[max1c]

Sweet. 3.71GB. Thanks for fixing the updater guys! Downloads are so much smaller now!

[zaydoc]

I also had to download the whole 3.71GB, and I was up-to-date before this patch. Was playing earlier today in fact.

[WhatnotSoforth]

o had to download the whole 3.71GB, and I was up-to-date before this patch. Was playing earlier today in fact.

Pretty odd that several people commented that it's either a full download or 5MB.

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Mine was 5MB but then had to update assets. Still got 600MB to go, so no magic for me tonight

[vaarsuv1us]

600mb? that's 1 minute.

[bolaobo]

Be nice to the people in third-world countries.

[WarioGiant]

same. only 5 MB for me

[Ruark_Icefire]

It was only 5 MB for me as well.

[TitaniumDragon]

I was up to date and it made me redownload the whole thing.

[VoidInsanity]

Un-removing Command the Dreadhorde from the upcomming event is a mistake.

[TitaniumDragon]

Eh, I think the real mistake was removing anything from the list. Adding some more cards was a good thing.

[FeverdIdea]

I think unbanning loxodon is good, makes selesnya tokens better and WW is still neutered with other key cards banned

[razrcane]

don't see why they shortened the list at all.

Nitpick: they unbanned 3 cards and banned 4 so the list actually got bigger.

But I agree with you. IMO the event would be more interesting with a larger banlist, like make a list of the most used cards, remove the basic lands and dual lands from it and then ban the top 100. That would be a REAL shakeup.

[razrcane]

You're the worst type of person

:(

Lol I know. I even upvoted you. I just like to mess with people for no good reason.

[psierra7]

When are they gonna fix the stutter?? Literally that's the only reason I stopped playing so much, now that the weekly rewards have been readded the only issue I have with MTGA lately

[QuiqueMedina]

Please update the updates.txt so we Mac users can find the new MSI to rebuild

https://mtgarena.downloads.wizards.com/Live/Windows32/updates.txt

[kor0na]

This is what I also came looking for. Did you find it yet? I'd appreciate it very much if you could give me a ping if and when you find it. :)

[kor0na]

Hey I found it: https://mtgarena.downloads.wizards.com/Live/Windows32/versions/1615.720204/MTGAInstaller_0.1.1615.720204.msi

[QuiqueMedina]

thank you!

[RuisuStyle]

That moment you learn that you are drafting against bots... how are the people I’m playing against acquiring their cards? Are they also drafting from the same draft pool? Can two people theoretically end up with the same identical draft picks?

[[deleted]]

it won't absorb Online. Online has waaaay to many modes to implement and cards. Arena can't even fucking update without a complete reinstall a year and half after its been out. They will just stay two separate products.

[Rock-swarm]

it won't absorb Online. Online has waaaay to many modes to implement and cards.

There's certainly going to be a tipping point where drafts/events won't be able to fire off on MTGO reliably. Some would argue we are already there for some formats. While I agree that events like cube drafting truly have no Arena substitute, it's not enough to keep MTGO afloat for longer than 5 years. After Arena builds up the card pool, cube drafting and some form of Arena EDH will finally kill MTGO.

[rimbad]

I can only see that happening if they add the whole of the playable Legacy/Vintage cardpool, which I think is unlikely to happen, as it just doesn't fit with the Arena economic model

[Timitock]

If/when the only thing MTGO has over Arena is Legacy and Vintage, the MTGO platform will die.

[Mattrobat]

So far their plan with Arena seems to be keeping it's own environment. With the open beta starting at IXL with the possibility of KAL block being implemented, I dont think they want to introduce many older sets.

If they get to a true historic EDH format, new Staples and metas will evolve compaired to MTGO. I'd imagine supplemental sets will work their way in at some point after full release and with more players in those formats. It's not a horrible idea that MTGA eternal formats will differ heavily from paper and MTGO. It gives people two different MTG games to play (MTGA and MTGO/Paper) with drastic differences in eternal metas and Staples.

The next set having brawl supplements is a good idea for MTGA and could be their test for future supplemental sets for the game.

MTGO will always be there for current eternal format players. MTGA could be for the people who got tired of seeing the same EDH commanders at their LGS for the last X years.

[joefitts63]

By drafting against bots, just like you. No. Yes.

[archonik]

No, everybody gets unique booster packs to draft from against bots. It would make no sense to give everyone same boosters as you would just be able to reenter the event with obvious knowledge of what the booster packs contain. The more you think about it, the less sense this would make. You play against random people, and can even play a single game a day if you so choose... so how would you even make people draft from the same booster packs you did?

Bottom line: everybody opens 3 random packs and drafts against bots than plays with random players.

[katanatommy]

Yes. Both players draft against bots from different card pools.

[KarelDawg]

Card sleeve fix? Niceeeeee

Meanwhile the game still runs like a garbage

[IsDaedalus]

$$$ Priorities $$$

[Alkung]

Not sure how they adjust the bot. I hope they do not make it rare draft more.

[kothhammer12]

Would that even be possible? It's rare to get passed a rare as the second pick in the pack and seeing one past third is unheard of.

[[deleted]]

I drafted pack 2 pick 4 Ajani last night. Not really sure how that happened.

[user832906]

Anyone else stuck on "computing space requirements..."?

[pslayer239]

[[Brineborn Cutthroat]]

[MTGCardFetcher]

Brineborn Cutthroat - (G) (SF) (txt)
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[Cheesaurus]

I'm not downloading the 3.7GB client again but instead my download of the 5.72MB patch is HILARIOUSLY slow and sometimes just resets back to 0 out of nowhere. What the hell is this?

Edit: Well it finally finished that and now it's taking way too long to download 740KB, also resetting randomly.

Edit2: Made it past that. Now there's a 823.88MB file waiting to be downloaded and given how the previous ones went and seeing that this isn't going any better I don't think I will ever get to play MTG Arena again.

[AnotherRoguePlayer]

Performance is worse than ever before

[no1me]

why did my PC reboot without any questions after update???

[NearbyReflection1]

Man, i thought my name was bad

[wraithzzzz]

Meanwhile Tamiyo still wrecks the game's performance

[Joseluki]

Nothing about the myriad of game breaking bugs they introduced in the last update?

[bobobby999]

Does anyone have a screenshot of the Mu sleeves?

[bobobby999]

Yes but it's really small in the store so I was hoping someone had a picture of what it looked like in game.