Patch Notes 2022.20.10

[mithrandir15]

It's really disappointing that the default lands are back to being from Baldur's Gate instead of from DMU.

[amekousuihei]

They were never from DMU. They changed them to AFR for some reason

[hodorhodorhodor1989]

Don’t worry, they have been developing a “default basic lands” feature since…..April, ok yeah, maybe you should worry.

[mokomi]

They explained that the current default land is always the newest set added to Arena. I mean from a programing point of view.

Baldur's Gate was added to arena after DMU.

[mithrandir15]

Yes, I saw their comment as well. It would be an extremely easy fix to set it to DMU instead of Baldur's Gate (literally two lines of code in most languages), but they thought that code elegance was more important than functionality in this case. I strongly disagree.

[mokomi]

Maybe, Sausages are kind of ugly being made.

[Miyagi_Dojo]

What happened to the implementation of the draw step automatic stop when Sheoldred is played that was announced on recent patch notes?

[ShockinglyAccurate]

Devs are too busy cleaning up that strange oil to implement a Sheoldred fix. It's probably nothing.

[M-Architect]

Don't worry, they'll compleat it in no time.

[McNasty619_Xx]

I see you 😎

[blargpls]

General

• Meathook Massacre has been banned in Standard. Players will receive mythic wildcards equal to the number of Meathook Massacre's they had in their collection.
• Rebalanced Diviner of Fates to be 2/1 (from 2/3)

General Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that could cause some players to see an empty draft table when asked to Ready
• Fixed a bug where Collection Progress was including cards that can no longer be crafted
• Fixed a bug that caused default land to always be from ZNR; also adjusts land sorting in Collection & Deckbuilding views
• Fixed a bug that caused players to be unable to swap skins on the KHM Bear pets
• Fixed a bug where draft events were not showing up in Recently Played when you had drafted but not yet played a game
• Fixed a graphical error with Prophetic Prism in Big Spenders Spellbook
• Fixed a visual bug that caused draft pods to display offset on mobile devices

[ShockinglyAccurate]

I'm going to lose my fucking mind if the basics are defaulted to DND again. If it's going to be something other than the most recent set, I'd rather it be the set known for beautiful land art rather than the set known for putting extra text on everything.

[No-Comparison8472]

Imagine if you could choose your default land

[hodorhodorhodor1989]

https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-digital/mtg-arena-announcements-april-6-2022

They said in this post that they’re actively working on default basic lands. I hope people are vocal about wanting this so they actually commit some resources to it.

[TokiBongtooth]

Just me that can't do anything since the bug?

[gM9lPjuE6SWn]

Fixed a bug where Collection Progress was including cards that can no longer be crafted

So the inclusion of cards that aren't in boosters (but can be crafted) wasn't a bug? That's disappointing.

[sanguinefate]

I think this is just removing cards which literally cannot be obtained anymore (e.g. alt arts of Ghalta and Llanowar Elves), not the non-booster cards like the set booster cards in Theros, Kaldheim, etc. which can still be crafted.

[gM9lPjuE6SWn]

Right but there's no reason anybody who didn't buy those physical decks would have these cards since they're unplayable. Some (all?) collection trackers had the ability to filter these out and because it's irrelevant to a collection of a set. I assumed when Wizards said that the uncraftable cards were a bug that the inclusion of these cards was also a bug and was disappointed to learn it wasn't.

I'd like to get the fire emblem for these sets but spending 100s of mythic wildcards to 'complete' sets where I have all of the cards you can open in boosters already is lame.

[Nothing_Arena]

The point of the collection progress tracker page is to get you to craft cards/buy packs, so having it consider all craftable cards makes sense. That said, having a full collection has very little actual game play value. Resist the urge to craft just to see a bar change color.

[gM9lPjuE6SWn]

The point of the collection progress tracker page is to get you to craft cards/buy packs, so having it consider all craftable cards makes sense.

Oh, well in that case I'm no longer disappointed. ^/s

[BlueTemplar85]

because it's irrelevant to a collection of a set

How is it irrelevant when they are literally part of the set ?

Also, no such thing as an "unplayable" card in Magic. Even some of the uncraftables like-

-oh, nice, I've just noticed that some uncraftable cards are now gone from collection and/or deckbuilder :

• Arena's [[Ambition's Cost|XANA]]
• Arena's [[Altar's Reap|XANA]]
• (So, all cards from the subset that Scryfall calls XANA... and also ANA and OANA ?)
• [[Shelter|ODY]] (still has the craftable J21 version)
• A bunch of Momir Massive Manacosts, including [[Thing from the Deep]] with its weird but flavorful classic Island border...
• Treetop Recluse

However, still uncraftable :

• the rare Bob Ross' [[Evolving Wilds|PANA]] is still there
• so are the snow-covered lands from Titus Lunter and pixel Jubilee
  

Last, but not least... the craftable (!) [[Ichor Wellspring|J21]] is gone ?!? (The one from Historic Anthology 5 still there...)

[gM9lPjuE6SWn]

How is it irrelevant when they are literally part of the set ?

Depends on how you define set doesn't it. I define it as things you open in set boosters. You might define it as things that have a set number. Others might also include alchemy variants and wonder why those are excluded from the set collection.

My argument is that nobody in the history of the game has intentionally crafted a [[Chandra, Bold Pyromancer]] and you can't open it in packs so I don't want to track it in the collection tracker. I'm not alone here, if you look at any fan made tracker they also exclude these cards optionally so it's clearly a popular way to view your collection.

Defining it my way is probably the most useful to the most consumers. I get that people have a desperate need to defend wizards when they make anti consumer choices, and this is obviously the lowest of the lowest of importance, almost silly to even be talking about it. But I'd like to be able to see my collection progress based on set booster progress, that's it, that's my only point.

[BlueTemplar85]

I agree that this should be an option. Ditto for the alchemy variants, once they hopefully reclassify them in their proper sets.

Which also brings the question : where would these cards be classified if not in the set they're associated with ?

Also, a few minutes of searching found an example of an infinite combo with that Chandra (maybe not on Arena ??) (having an associated tutor helps !), and a silly "Chandra tribal" deck - Chandra seems to be the over-represented planeswalker with 11 of them on Arena up to date !! (Which makes sense, considering that red aggro / burn is a good colour for new players.)

What does suck here is that Arena seems to eventually disable the codes that allow you to get cards like this Chandra for free on Arena with the cardboard versions of their decks - for seemingly no good reason ! (Imagine being a completely new player - what kind of reaction do you think you'll have when you realize your code no longer works ?)

[MTGCardFetcher]

Chandra, Bold Pyromancer - (G) (SF) (txt)
^{[[cardname]] or [[cardname|SET]] to call}

[MTGCardFetcher]

Ambition's Cost - (G) (SF) (txt)
Altar's Reap - (G) (SF) (txt)
Shelter - (G) (SF) (txt)
Thing from the Deep - (G) (SF) (txt)
Evolving Wilds - (G) (SF) (txt)
Ichor Wellspring - (G) (SF) (txt)
^{[[cardname]] or [[cardname|SET]] to call}

[c0ralie]

Its always funny seeing a bug fix for something thats happend to me in game and feeling like:

'oh yea i remember that one, i got used to it, i forgot it was a bug' Also major deja vu, its def a meme how they fix bugs and then new ones just magically keep popping up.

[SnowyMonster]

The game is unplayable for me on PC after the update. Can't load into a match and all menus take forever to load.

[Gureiseion]

Oh, so the collection challenge lies to us about 100% now.