The full patch notes for the MTG Arena Alchemy: The Brothers’ War and Explorer Anthology 2 game update brings new cards, more stuff to buy, and as always, a bunch of fixes and improvements. For further information about the update and upcoming events, check out our dedicated set guides, Release Notes (previously State of the Game) and the weekly Announcement. You can now claim free packs for each set in your Player Inbox – no more codes to fiddle around with!
The game should now be fully functional after some issues with the server and draft queues not functioning. Please report any issues directly to Wizards of the Coast Support and visit the MTG Arena Status to check the status of current issues.
Game Update Highlights
Alchemy: Brothers’ War is here! New Alchemy packs, events, and cosmetics are now available!
Purchases of Alchemy: Brothers’ War packs move the Golden Pack meter just like purchases of Brothers’ War packs do
Explorer Anthology 2 arrives! A collection of 24 powerful Explorer cards and cosmetics, including the introduction of Devoid cards and Wastes
Player Inbox: A new system to allow us to send messages to all players with information and rewards
Check in the top right of the menus (next to the settings gear) to access your inbox
All players have an inbox message granting them Wastes
New TRANSFORMERS Animating sleeves available in the Store
Notable Bug Fixes
Fixed a collation bug that could result in Retro Artifacts cards from Brothers’ War packs not respecting duplicate protection
We will be sending Inbox Messages next week to all players who lost our on Retro Artifacts cards due to this bug with replacement rares/mythics
Fixed a collation bug that could result in players getting only one card from Brothers’ War in their Golden Packs (they would still receive another duplicate-protected rare from Standard)
We were registering gameplay loops in some scenarios where players could absolutely take different actions. We’ve made the loop detector a little better at recognizing those situations.
Several years ago, as part of a limited-time promotion, players were able to obtain card sleeves depicting certain country-specific flags for use in MTG Arena. We feel that this has impacted some players’ ability to enjoy the game. As such, we will soon be restricting how the country-specific cards sleeves appear in game
Players who previously acquired these sleeves will still see them in their collection and may still apply them to decks.
During matches, only the player who has these card sleeves applied will see them on their deck; it will appear as the default card back to opponents.
Players already have or soon will receive 300 gems per flag card sleeve in their collection when this change goes live, regardless of how they originally obtained the sleeve/s.
Furthermore, we currently have no plans to make these sleeves available again in-game or through regional promotions.
The Play Blade icons have given birth to little text labels for your reading enjoyment.
The post match happy/sad survey returns! The quick survey is back and sometimes appears after a match to let you tell us how you felt about it. And remember, this is for science, so please, be honest.
We have solved the problems preventing the Matt Jukes lands from working properly. The bundle is now back, and we have performed a mass grant to deliver the lands to prior purchasers.
Now available for purchase through the Deckbuilder:
Depth Art:
Kayla’s Kindling Jarsyl, Dark Age Scion Crucias, Titan of the Waves Richlau, Headmaster Forgefire Automaton Norn’s Disassembly By Elspeth’s Command Penregon Besieged Fallaji Antiquarian Tomakul Phoenix Foundry Groundbreaker Argothian Uprooting Legion of Clay Raddic, Tal Zealot Yotian Courier Rusko, Clockmaker Great Desert Hellion Urza’s Construction Drone Gixian Recycler Warzone Duplicator Tawnos Endures Hurkyl’s Prodigy Piece It Together Lonely End Melt Through Sylvan Smite Assemble the Team Argivian Welcome Perilous Iteration Patchplate Resolute
Clever Impersonator Kozilek, the Great Distortion Sliver Hivelord World Breaker Courser of Kruphix Eerie Interlude Eidolon of the Great Revel Eldrazi Displacer Mana Confluence Matter Reshaper Mutavault Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx Soldier of the Pantheon Thought-Knot Seer Dispel Ethereal Armor Fiery Impulse Nylea’s Presence Satyr Wayfinder Brave the Elements Reflector Mage Rending Volley Shaman of the Pack Zulaport Cutthroat
Bug Fixes
General
Fixed a bug that made the Schemtic Style for Quietus Spike not show up properly
Fixed a deckbuilder bug where adding some artifacts from Brothers’ War could make suggest lands add some Plains (regardless of deck color)
Gameplay
Using Tamiyo Compleated Sage’s -X on a Saga with Read Ahead was showing missing art in the browser. This has been fixed.
Creeping Inn was missing its count badge in the icon tray. This has been fixed.
Tibalt, Cosmic Imposter’s rules text got little. It’s big again, thank goodness.
Fixed a bug that caused Mask of the Jadecrafter to show an improper mana cost for Unearth in Portuguese.
RoboQA found a crash where removing all of Torgaar’s abilities perpetually, then bouncing it, then playing it again caused a crash. Thanks RoboQA, you’ve done it again.
