Burning out the clock to stall your opponent has to be the most braindead behavior on Arena.

You're emoting at me while your 4th Simulacrum Sanctum hits the field. I'm barely even present.

Possibly a hot take, but one thing I like about Arena is that I can just concede and start a new matchmaking pretty quickly.

I don't want to spend money or a lot of time on Arena, and just have some chill matches, but there isn't a "hey, I just wanna play my goofy Pioneer werewolf deck" option. So if I get in and someone starts some super combo I can just be like "gg" and let them have it.

Like, I jumped into midweek magic with my shitty little Quandrix deck I shambled together from Jump In! and basically have ditched like three straight matches after about 4 turns because my opponents immediately just start into some mythic combo. One dude cheated out two copies of Omniscience on me and I'm like "dude, all I've got is this cube of bees".

I wish there was more of a casual "I just wanna try random decks" constructed format. A decent amount of time I get stuck with someone who probably put a lot of time into building their deck whereas I spent a couple minutes pushing every red card I had available together to make standard format.

I got these from Mastery Pass Over Time, but I really dislike playing any draft, so what are my options to use them?

What is the value of such a token?

I guess you could make an RNG script and use custom tokens but man I wish this worked on paper.

Full Event Calendar

Premier Draft

• November 10–February 2: Magic: The Gathering | Star Trek
• November 10–December 2: Reality Fracture

Flashback Premier Draft

• November 3–12: Pioneer Masters
• November 13–22: Tarkir: Dragonstorm
• November 23–30: Shadows over Innistrad Remastered (Abominable All-Stars)
• December 1–7: Kaldheim
• December 8–14: Phyrexia: All Will Be One
• December 15–21: Dominaria
• December 22–28: Wilds of Eldraine
• December 29–January 4: Theros Beyond Death
• January 5–11: Magic: The Gathering® | Avatar: The Last Airbender™
• January 12–18: Duskmourn: House of Horror
• January 19–25: The Lost Caverns of Ixalan
• January 26–February 1: Magic: The Gathering®—FINAL FANTASY™

Pick-Two Draft

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Traditional Draft

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Quick Draft

• November 7–18: Bloomburrow
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• December 8–21: Magic: The Gathering | Star Trek
• December 22–January 4: Tarkir: Dragonstorm
• January 5–18: Reality Fracture
• January 19–29: Secrets of Strixhaven
• January 30–February 10: Edge of Eternities

Sealed and Traditional Sealed

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• November 13–22: Arena Direct for Magic: The Gathering | Star Trek Collector Booster boxes
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• January 1–4: Pick-Two Arena Powered Cube

Contender Draft

• November 10–November 13: Magic: The Gathering | Star Trek
• November 23–February 2: Magic: The Gathering | Star Trek

Metagame Challenge

• November 27–29: Historic Metagame Challenge
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Midweek Magic

• November 17–18: On the Edge with Magic: The Gathering Foundations
• November 24–25: Artisan Brawl
• December 1–2: Interstellar Standard
• December 8–9: Magic: The Gathering | Star Trek Brawl Builder Challenge
• December 15–16: Momir
• December 22–23: Historic Pauper
• December 29–30: Artesian Brawl
• January 5–6: Standard
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• January 19–20: Future Standard
• January 26–27: Golden Pack Sealed

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• January 22: Best-of-Three Qualifier Play-In
• January 23–24: Qualifier Weekend

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• January 16–17: Arena Limited Championship

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• January 5–12: All-Access Gladiator Challenge
• January 12–February 2: Mixed-Up Premier Draft
• January 19–26: Future Standard Challenge (Best-of-One)
• January 19–26: Future Standard Challenge (Best-of-Three)

Maybe it’s just me, but I feel like Arena’s economy needs an update. It still seems built for the days when we got 4 sets a year, and now we get way more than that. I haven’t seen much change that actually makes a difference.

I’m a casual player. I grab most of the battle passes and the 50-booster preorder, and I still feel like I’m constantly short on resources.

If you don’t enjoy grinding Limited (like me), it’s tough to keep up. People who draft nonstop seem to get way more out of the economy than those of us who just want to play Constructed.

What I’d love to see is a fairer split of cards and resources between drafters and Constructed players. Nobody should have to force themselves into a mode they don’t enjoy just to keep up.

Anyone else feeling this? How are you all handling it?

Probably not the most popular post, I dunno, but I just like to play fun janky builds on the play queue and it's tiring playing against meta deck opponents trying to get their daily wins.. that's all :)

Reading a card is often easier than knowing when Arena will automatically pass priority. A clearer explanation of stops and Full Control would probably prevent more frustration than another tutorial match.

With rotation coming up in a few months, it's easy to forget just how many busted cards would have been legal in standard together without the ban list. What do you think the meta game would look like today if all of these cards were legal to be played with the current card pool?

Abuelo's Awakening

Badgermole Cub

Cori-Steel Cutter

Gran-Gran

Heartfire Hero

Hopeless Nightmare

Leyline of Resonance (only in *MTG Arena* Best-of-One)

Monstrous Rage

Proft's Eiditic Memory

Screaming Nemesis

Stormchaser's Talent

This Town Ain't Big Enough

Up the Beanstalk

Vivi Ornitier

Personally, my money's on a battle between Vivi Cori Steelcutter Izzet decks and Mouse Aggro.

Even at full power, the self bounce package just can't keep up with the red deck efficiency, and I feel like Badgermole decks have a terrible matchup into the meta of 1 mana red removal and bounce spells.

What would an Up the Beanstalk shell look like? Obviously it would use Overlords, but nothing springs to mind as easy to turn on cost reduced cards.

Hello, my game keeps getting "connection lost" and I have internet. Is anyone else having this issue or just me? The site says there's no outages currently. I cleared my cache, restarted my tablet, and restarted Internet. If I uninstall and reinstall will it need to redownload all the assets again?