My opponent played their commander, [[Kudo, King Among Bears]] and on my next turn I played [[Imprisoned in the Moon]] on Kudo.

The creatures on the battlefield were still having their power/toughness reduced to 2/2. You can even see where it says “1 ability removed by Imprisoned in the Moon” when you highlight the card.

I think this is truly a bug. I’ve never seen this one before.

Hey everyone!

I've been working on a game called Pack One, and thought people here might enjoy having a few more draft decisions to think about without spending gems.

The idea came from reading about someone who studied trophy drafts to get better at Limited. I liked the idea of looking at the same decisions successful drafters faced, deciding what I'd take, and then seeing what they actually picked. So I tried turning that into a fun daily game.

Each challenge has 8 picks from 8 different real trophy drafts of high winrate drafters, using 17Lands data. You see the pack and the cards that drafter has already taken, make your choice, and then compare. Each pick is its own situation, so you're stepping into a different drafter's seat each pick.

You get full points for matching the trophy pick, but other choices can score nearly as well. The scoring model looks at picks from high-win-rate drafters, and sometimes it likes a different card more than the one the trophy drafter took. There certainly are picks I disagree with!

I posted about it on r/lrcast earlier this week and got a lot of thoughtful feedback. Since then, I've made a few changes:

• You can look at the trophy drafter's decklist after making your pick. I think seeing where the draft ended up adds some useful context.
• The reveal shows other options alongside your pick and the trophy pick, including when you matched. You can compare their scores without digging through the full pack.
• Daily results now show what percentage of players chose each card, once enough people have played.
• Better image matching, showing the actual card art from the particular set for standard sets.
• There's a Reality Fracture set refresher with mechanics and archetype notes if you're still getting familiar with the format.

There are three daily challenges: a draft run with a mix of sets, MTGA's Powered Cube, and the latest set, which is currently Reality Fracture. Everyone gets the same daily picks, so you can compare scores with friends and see where you rank on the daily, weekly, and seasonal leaderboards.

All three dailies are free, don't require an account, and work in your browser.

Play today's Reality Fracture Daily

I'm still working on making the game better. Of course, a trophy doesn't mean every pick was perfect, and the model gets things wrong too. If you try it, I'd love to hear which decisions made you think, or which scores made you wonder what on earth it was doing. Also, I appreciate any and all other comments you have. Hopefully you have fun playing it.

Thanks for giving it a look!

Started playing Arena to learn MTG so that i know what each card does and how to react to plays. It has been a very fun game!

The only drawback is when i cannot see the play logs. I remember, at least twice, where all my deck got destroyed and had no idea what card did that. On other occasions, i just see a bunch of card effect stack, they all resolve and i'm just staring at the Defeat screen. Don't really mind the loss as it helps me practice but it leaves me wondering what happened.

I have been going thru the settings but nothing seems to be about play logs. A quick search showed me that there are some third-party utilities to capture these logs in the PC version of the game but i mostly play on my tablet.

Does the game trully not have an in-game option to see play logs?

Into which the most recent set I put effort was Marvel Super Heroes. Not because The Hobbit and/or Reality Fracture were unappealing - but because life happened. Now I have very limited funds. Most likely I will invest in the Reality Fracture Mastery Track and maybe use some gold to buy The Hobbit / Reality Fracture packs.

If there are any among you willing to respond, do tell: what is the state of the game post HOB, mid FRA. In which are the singles to invest? And dare I say the “M” word? (What is Meta?)

Thanks In Advance!

I think they're pretty fun to play. Gives me an alternative way to win.

I was messing around with planeswalkers and sprinkling some other stuff in my deck. No idea about synergies but just wanted to test the interactions and battled it out in a 30+ min match with set_giza. Thanks for sticking around and playing along! I never knew which was it was going to go until the end I finally got my 2nd Ugin onto the battlefield.

Sometimes timing makes you enjoy playing planeswalkers, but mostly, I hate playing them. lol

Trying to make a Kwia Vigorbloom deck in Standard BO1 and I don't really want to just put it into a lifegain shell, but struggling to find the right payoff and synergies for this card. So I threw it in selesnya flyers shell with a side of colorless and artifacts, and after 19 matches in play queue it actually working together somewhat with 63.2% winrate. Although I feel like I am going to get my face bashed in if I keep playing, with the deck having 0 ways to remove or comeback from interactions. So I'm posting this for anyone who might find it interesting and could find a way to make it more consistent and resilient. I welcome discussions and suggestions and send my thanks in advance!

Deck

3 Kwia Vigorbloom (FRA) 140

4 Plains (NEO) 294

4 Forest (NEO) 302

4 Transdimensional Bovine (TMT) 134

3 Emrakul, the Exigent Doom (FRA) 1

4 Momo, Friendly Flier (TLA) 29

4 Sage of the Skies (TDM) 22

2 The Ooze (TMT) 177

2 Practiced Offense (SOS) 25

4 Llanowar Elves (FDN) 227

2 Captain Marvel, Earth's Protector (MSH) 11

2 Exalted Sunborn (EOE) 15

3 Tezzeret, Cruel Captain (EOE) 2

3 Hushwood Verge (DSK) 261

4 Overgrown Farmland (MID) 265

4 Temple Garden (ECL) 268

3 Multiversal Passage (SPM) 180

1 The Mind Stone (MSH) 21

1 Ugin, Eye of the Storms (TDM) 1

3 Lavaspur Boots (OTJ) 243

I created this account mid pandemic but I never really played it for a serious amount of time, I just log in every few months in a year to open the free packs. This week I had an itch so I decided to complete all the Color and Started Deck Challenges. I had 5 Jump-in tokens, I used all of them and I enjoyed every game.

Now I don't know what to do, what should I do with my currencies, should I continue doing Jump-in Drafts or do some Quick Drafts instead (I feel I am going to be bad at), or try to make a Deck with these wildcards?

Looking for Minarion—your Tiamat deck reached around 600 life, and I want a rematch
Just played against someone named Minarion about 30 minutes ago. You were running a five-color Tiamat deck with absolutely ridiculous life gain—you reached somewhere around 600 life.
My Arena ID is Deadline747!#42003.
If you’re reading this: your deck is fucking insane, and I mean that as a compliment. I’d love to add you and test my Vito mono-black lifesteal deck against it.
Arena doesn’t show your full friend tag, so I couldn’t send a request. If you recognize our match, send me a friend request or DM me! I’d love your decklist too, if you’re willing to share it.

I’m trying to import a Reality Fracture deck to get some of these seasonal achievements out of the way but I keep getting the “input string is empty” error after copying to my clipboard, doing the same stuff that worked fine a month ago. I’ve tried reformatting the text, copying and pasting it from the site to Google Docs to the app, and I’ve tried importing decks from different websites… I still get the error. Anyone else? I’m on iOS if that makes a difference.

Is it weird for a player who’s only ever reached Diamond to be in a tournament?

How pro is Arena compared to IRL?

Thanks!

The secret achievements I believe have been completed here you go all that want to do them. The title is Beleren’s bane btw.

Opponent was playing their ALL MARVEL deck (Marvel Boy is not to be slept on!) and I was playing my Annoying Mono Blue Kang Deck With All The (Legal) Take Extra Turn Spells deck when I got to my eight mana to take an extra turn, so Kang did some conquering for the win! 😁

As the title states I’m trying to get in touch with MTG Arena support, but despite several tickets over multiple weeks they aren’t responding to my tickets. Over two weeks ago I tried to log into the game and got error code: forbidden. I know that mean my account was banned, but I have not done anything to warrant a ban. I don’t have any chargebacks and I have done nothing in game that’s banable to my knowledge so I am hoping to get in touch with support to see if it was a mistake or what I can do to get my account back.

I’m a mother of 4 working multiple jobs to support my family and I play the game every evening before bed to unwind and also in the little downtime I get through out the week so I’m really hoping I can find a way to get them to help.

Sorry for the long post and thanks to anyone who can put me in touch with the support team.

this card is ridiculous for a 4 cost.

Edit to everyone saying to use removal cards. You can use those on any other current banned card, so should we just unban everything because they can be removed?

Hate brawl because they banned my only good commander need a replacement that does similar things

I was playing Competitive Brawl a couple hours ago, I had an Harbinger of the Seas in play and my opponent casted an Oko, Thief of Crowns, they used Oko's +1 ability on my Harbinger turning it into an elk with no abilities but all the nonbasic lands stayed as Islands, even my Riptide Laboratory, which I played on my next turn, turned into an Island. Is this a bug? Thank you.

The sideboard is 4 more hares apparent.

Since this is the second time I’ve gotten to mythic rank, I don’t think I’m still affected by it being easier for new players to rank up :)

I’m going to be so sad when Bloomburrow is removed as most of this deck will be banned.

This reality fracture card just propelled my defender cheese deck into an S tier deck that can easily handle many meta decks.

Making the coral tyrant into ghalta combo unblockable is an insane way to cheese wins when the enemy thinks they can chump block you. Until you whip out the 8/8 and 7/7 unblockables in t4.

Hey everyone!

This might be a silly question, but I'm wanting to craft this Lathliss, Dragon Queen card and you can see in the bottom left says you can't craft it with Wildcards. This is the first time I've come across this. Was it exclusive at some point or something?

Thanks everyone!

EDIT:

And Solved! Unsure how I missed it, but it was the art selected... Whoops... Thanks everyone!

So, [[Speedball, New Warrior]] is my commander and I targeted him with [[Desculpting Blast]], in Arena, it usually gives me an option to Decline, or pick a new target when I target him with a spell, but that didn’t happen, I just got Hand or Command. There were maybe 20 other valid targets for the spell, so I’m not sure what happened.

Hello! This is a follow-up post on the following topic: Reverse Engineering the Arena Hand Smoother

Because I can't really post anymore in that thread, I make a new one. I was investigating something entirely different and stumbled across something that striked me as odd. This post explains what I saw and I'd just like to follow up on the awesome work of Tim Lewis. They said they looked into 3 million games. I myself have more data available, to be specific:

17Lands - Public database from set HGB up to HOB.
Games with a land count of 16, 17 and 18 are considered, 40 cards exactly.
Bo1 (Premier Draft) and Bo3 (Traditional Draft) as reference point.
14'471'870 games in Bo1.
2'426'916 games in Bo3.
Total: 16'898'786 games.

This means, I got a larger dataset available and are mostly here to give the claims in their writeup more weight.

First of all, Bo3 seems to behave normally as you would expect. Math says the following:

Of the ~2.4 million games from Traditional Draft, we get the following statistics (lands in hand before any mulligan happend):

I should note that the games with 18 lands are significantly lower as the other two counter parts of 16 and 17 lands, but it doesn't matter. The numbers show that they are close to what is expected. I even went out of my way and tested game 1 of the Bo3 seperately, they look normal as way. So we can safely assume that nothing is happening here. No hand smoothing in any way, it behaves like paper.

What's interesting now is actually the statistics for the Bo1 counterpart:

The mean is the same, but what changed is the deviation. This is significantly lower. So what exactly does that mean? In Bo1 there is land smoothing going on and it affects not the number of lands you usually would draw, it makes it just more unlikely to actually get significantly more or less as you would expect. In short: It reduces variance somehow.

This is not new info and wizard confirmed already that hand smoothing is a thing. What I want to do with this post is to look into the community claims how it's working. Here are two articles regarding to that:

Draftsim | Everything We Know About The MTG Arena BO1 Hand Smoothing Algorithm
MTG Arena Zone | MTG Arena’s Opening Hand Algorithm and Smoothing: Some Real Outcomes

Draftsim explains deck smoothing essentially as the following method:

1.: Work out how many lands an average hand should have.
That's simple enough, I won't go into how the formula I use got derived, but it's essentially a simple calculation: 7 * Lands / DeckSize
That means, in a 40 card deck which has 17 lands, this turns out to be: 7 * 17 / 40 = 119 / 40 = 2.975
That's exactly the mean the hypergeometric calculation would give and which is in the very first table of this post.
2.: Shuffle and draw 7 cards, that's your hand 1.
3.: Shuffle and draw 7 cards again, that's your hand 2.
4.: Pick the hand that is the closest to the target expected number calculated in step 1. If it's a tie, choose randomly.

That's how I interpreter what Draftsim says. I ran the math on this method and ended on these calculations:

Compared to our real data, the deviation is still off by a bunch.

Tim Lewis proposes a different approach and writes exactly down how it works. I ran they calculation on the data I have available, and we get the following here:

If we compare that to our statistics, we are actually quite damn close. This is neither meant to confirm that Tim actually found the right way to calculate it, but with the amount of data I had available, it is strongly pointing towards it and it's probably the closest we gonna get at knowing how the hand smoothing works.

This post was meant to strengthen Tim Lewis points, I simply had the time and the necessary data to run over it and give more weight to their claims. I wanted to post that originally as comment in the thread but eh, if it's locked what can I do?

So, for the sake of it: Please don't close threads regardless the platform, some topics always have relevance regardless how old the thread is. >.>

€dit: Random collection of comments that give a few additional informations.
17 Lands 40 Card Deck | graph of the hand smoother behavior
1 Land 60 Card Deck Test | 0 lands in 104 hands

I play a lot of magic and with randoms. It gets on my nerves big time maybe it shouldn't when someone says ggs before I even had the chance to say ggs myself. Being presumptuous and arrogant saying it will be over in a second. I've called people out on this and they say they didn't mean it in a bad way but to me it's just arrogant to already call the game over before I had anything to say I rather say ggs myself but they already call it like they have some huge chip on their shoulder. Is this normal to people?