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Alchemy, a success story, ep 234:

https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/tfhmpe/saffron_olive_our_youtube_audience_has_made_it/

They ruled that out.

Just saying that because hasbro has previous released ip on licence but kept a side of it, in that instance they kept all digital rights to the ip. Funnily enough, the company that got the paper did...

Still wonder what the bleeping heck is that format supposed to be. Seriously doubt it will be pioneer, or any other MTGO format, with them punting MTGO cannot believe the contract would allow them to...

nevermind

Holy f*^&, it's not just new set releases look at the size of the bloody change list for alchemied cards:
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Won't argue anything but would make one point, Bo1 is a vastly different game from Bo3 and if digital and design becomes centred on Bo1, then something must give for paper that is strictly Bo3.
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IMHO, as good as the detail may be, the principle is pernicious from the POV of a table-top game.

Putting my design hat on, it will become increasingly difficult for them to conciliate those two...

For those that had any doubts about the future direction of MTG, here's an admission that play preferences in Arena are now driving set design (in this instance Bo1 vs Bo3).
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This guys touches on it more in detail than I could (TL;DR: He agrees that rental services are snookering MTGO's economy and details how, including relation with MTGA)
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So, alchemy, that breath of fresh air, that saviour of the metagame, herald of a new standard, cannot operate as intended because... pros cannot adapt quickly to metagame changes...
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Well, on the other hand Hasbro has previous experience of doing this and things worked out more than all right. I guess the main point here is that the sudden demise of MTGO is not happening. For now.

Well guys, see you all back in MTGO...

https://www.daybreakgames.com/news/daybreak-wotc-enter-license-agreement-mtgo
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I find even more stupid things like the fact that you cannot play Lightning Bolt, but you can play a card that each time it swings places 4 Lightning Bolts in your deck.

I think, certainly from my perspective what I think will be the ultimate decider is how frequent the changes to alchemized cards will be and how much they screw decks. Let's face it, wildcards in...

Alchemy is still going well:

https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/rgaps4/mark_rosewater_the_idea_behind_the_digitalonly/

Who had on the arena sweepstake 'after our update you are now locked out of your account and we do not care' ?
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https://www.magicarenacardlist.com/

Sets can be selected on the left hand side column (select 'Rebalanced')

The other problem with Tome of the Infinite is that you get to play cards that are not legal in historic. I'm not exactly sure if the randomness is enough to say something is ok to play out of the...

This is beyond funny:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MagicArena/comments/rbpmsl/its_already_begun/

Cards amended before they are even released. Rarity not part of card's image...

I wouldn't put my faith on that, at all. I think (and it's a first) WotC finally learnt how to ride the internet pile-up, which is to have some junior staff make a few vague statements, keep doing...

Re-installed recently and was absolutely amazed at how few players there were, including leagues and premier events just about to reach their time to fire. This when compared to when I sold out which...

I think there was always a tension between intention and outcome. They ended duels , kept mtgo and motored on with arena. Duels was the casual-vaguely-related-to-MtG game. MTGO was the online port of...

BTW, pancakes are good, but blueberry with maple syrup.

I can only speak from what I see and saw since I have no insider knowledge but, certainly from the time of the beta, most people in there kept moaning and asking about drafts, not when would the...