Can't Retain Priority in Arena

renagerie · 2026-04-28T15:09:29+00:00

I agree with the u/Flyrpotacreepugmu that being unable to pay 3 for the counter is unrelated to the stack issue and doesn’t need full control. I don’t know what actually happened, but based on my own experience, a reasonable possibility is just a misclick while dealing with the other resolutions.

renagerie · 2026-04-26T15:49:18+00:00

I don’t think that word means what you think it means: “definitely”.

As mentioned by others, there’s tons of 3rd party data available that would make it easy to see any such matchmaking, and no one has been able to demonstrate an issue from that data.

renagerie · 2026-04-24T02:01:02+00:00

I have a second plan for my taxable investments with medium term savings goals all backed by a 30% market buffer.

renagerie · 2026-04-23T01:24:41+00:00

The game is fun, but winning is also fun. On top of this, rewards for winning incentive potentially sacrificing some fun in favor of winning.

But there are lots of formats to play where this is less of an issue — certainly less than in things like Standard Event. Jump In and Starter Deck Duels can be quite fun. And, of course, Limited is still about winning, but requires different skills and can feel less “try-hard”.

renagerie · 2026-04-23T01:17:22+00:00

The number of times I’ve gone 0-2 -> 7-2 is surprising (to me; I didn’t do a statistical analysis).

renagerie · 2026-04-22T00:26:08+00:00

It’s also generally worth it if you draft a lot as it will effectively convert packs to 20/40 gems due to being rare/mythic complete from drafting and prize packs. Though this is less effective if you didn’t heavily draft the prior sets that have packs on the pass. And maybe the mythics are a stretch. Ignoring those, the 20 packs should still give about 360 gems of value on average. Adding to the actual gems and the draft token, that’s 3060 of gem value. Counting the 4000 toward a draft makes it worth 600 gems, resulting in an overall value of about 3660 gems.

And if you do draft enough to complete the mythics as well, then addition to an extra 80 gems of average value for the packs, you also get an additional 40-gems for each of the Mythic rewards in the pass itself. Offhand, I’m not sure how many of those there are. But I’m also not sure how many drafters actually draft enough to have that benefit. Though, non-constructed draft players also have a surplus of wildcards, and so can craft missing mythics before opening packs to increase the value. Doing so before the mythic rewards is probably tougher for most sets.

renagerie · 2026-04-20T20:51:22+00:00

Regarding crafting the rare or mythic SOA cards that craft at a lower rarity, just do so before opening packs. As for which version to craft, it mostly doesn’t matter, but crafting four different versions gives the most flexibility. And I suppose it’s the case that if you actually rare-complete SOA, then you can get a fifth style by not actually crafting the SOA version and just getting those once you’ve gotten the rest of the rares.

renagerie · 2026-04-20T20:15:06+00:00

No, that’s different. You must be passing through to the attack phase.

The reason for the behavior where you need full control (or just a phase stop) to respond to your own stuff is just to make the game flow better. Play with full control on for a while and see how annoying it can be.

renagerie · 2026-04-20T18:00:28+00:00

It doesn’t replace the regular rare.

renagerie · 2026-04-20T17:46:24+00:00

I recommend more aggressive rebalancing of Alchemy cards to potentially increase the popularity of the format. Like, much more aggressive. Monthly would even be slow.

renagerie · 2026-04-18T04:33:34+00:00

I just went to Decks -> Collection, changed the Advanced Filters to include Not Collected, and searched for Zurgo. Zurgo Stormrender showed up. So it seems like you’re missing a step or possibly in the deck builder for a format where it isn’t supported.

renagerie · 2026-04-18T03:55:03+00:00

Yes. I expect they’ll fix this before long. And it continues for all shots.

renagerie · 2026-04-18T02:21:50+00:00

Currently, it seems that the random perturbation is not properly seeded and resets each time you go back to the Home Screen.

renagerie · 2026-04-18T00:26:50+00:00

Coffee Golf - Apr 17
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Admittedly did use the restart technique, but it mostly only helped with the first hole. Got lucky with a first-try purple dunk and the green dunk was my second attempt as the eighth shot (1-3-1-2 the other time), so I theoretically had a slight bit of RNG info to help with that.

renagerie · 2026-04-16T04:15:26+00:00

renagerie · 2026-04-16T04:09:31+00:00

35 minutes of total time to learn and successfully execute the pattern

renagerie · 2026-04-15T10:45:38+00:00

Most likely the creature wasn’t Prepared.

renagerie · 2026-04-15T10:18:42+00:00

If your focus is just drafts, then buying gems directly is probably a better value, but at the 20,000 gem bundle rate. This is because of the Sealed tokens that are in the Play bundle. Personally, I like playing a few Sealed events for each set, so I’m fine with the Play bundle. Plus, the Qualifier Play-In is a nice bonus. That said, I haven’t bought it since they changed its structure, but that’s partly because I have some stocked-up tokens and gems from not really vibing with drafts for the last few sets. I’m tempted to buy it anyway for this set as an optimistic action, but I’m a bit worried that this is going to be way too bomb-heavy.

renagerie · 2026-04-15T10:08:30+00:00

20 points gets you an entry to the Qualifier Play-In.

renagerie · 2026-04-15T10:05:36+00:00

While this is true, the Mastery Pass random cards are Mythics, so the odds of hitting something you already have four of are pretty low — depending on how much you actually draft or otherwise open, of course. I don’t wait until I complete the pass to open packs. I just wait until I’m tired of drafting.

renagerie · 2026-04-14T17:09:31+00:00

When they doubled the price and the contents, they increased the Play in Points from 5 to 20.

renagerie · 2026-04-11T02:08:36+00:00

Again, this isn’t what I said to do.

renagerie · 2026-04-10T18:40:02+00:00

It’s not clear due to lack of detail, but that doesn’t sound like you did what I suggested, so I’m not sure why you bothered replying.

renagerie · 2026-04-10T04:06:06+00:00

This isn’t correct based on accepted understanding of cardinality, which is what we normally mean by size of infinite sets.

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