MTG Arena’s latest update for March of the Machine brings a tonne of improvements and fixes outside of the new cards! Check out the full patch notes below.
Game Update Highlights
March of the Machine is released! Take up the battle against the Phyrexians with new limited modes, store packs, Mastery Pass, Jump In! packets, and cosmetic bundles.
You can now open pre-styled cards in packs! Both the base card and the style will be added to your collection when you open them.
The Multiverse Legends cards in March of the Machine store and limited packs are pre-styled cards like this
This means that all reprints are duplicate protected against the cards you may already have in your collection, and the styles will work with them as well
Preferred Printing has leveled up and will now remember your preferred style for each card as well.
This means you can now choose, for each card, what style you want it to use by default in your collection and when you add it to decks
Notable Bug Fixes
Fixed a rare bug that could cause a draft pick to visually disappear from the pack
We’ve added an accessibility toggle for large rules text, which increases the minimum font size, and just adds a scroll bar. I’m going to be straight: this will make cards look kinda wonky sometimes, but wonky and readable might be an improvement for you.
Gameplay
Battles and Planeswalkers now have an icon tray! But only for Hexproof and Indestructible. If you give one of them flying I don’t care. I mean, it’s cool, but I’m not going to put an icon on it.
Initial pass on improving performance around Mondrak and lots of treasure. Still not where I’d like it to be, but maybe you should stop making as many tokens as you possibly can, and just win the game?
Because Battles make it a little more likely you’ll be attacking something that’s scrolled off the battlefield, we’ve reworked how attackers animate when attacking (or being blocked by) permanents that aren’t currently visible on screen.
After copying an opponent’s spell, we now hold priority to let you respond. So if, say, you’ve just had a copy of a removal spell get created to target Ivy, you have a chance to respond.
We had to make new “Prevent Damage” VFX for Battles. There were so many little things like that. Hopefully it’s all smooth enough that you don’t really notice.
The new Convoke VFX make little orbs fly around the card on the stack as you tap creatures, which looks pretty rad.
Battles can gain types, it’s supported, but SHOULD Battles gain types? No. I know I can’t stop you, but I want you to know you’re only hurting yourself.
There are a bunch of changes to how token copies of transforming permanents work with this release. Frankly a lot more than I want to list here. If you check the comprehensive rules, you can find them, and we made all of that work.
If you have Botanical Brawler in play, and putting a counter on a creature makes it otherwise identical to another creature (or stack of creatures) that creature will be added to the bottom of the stack to help ensure you put counters on the other creatures, just in case.
New “Do you pay the 1?” just dropped! An opponent controlling Elesh Norn (the one from MOM) forces you to manually assign damage, to make sure you don’t get charged for more than you want.
Regenerate uses the same VFX as Shield counters, which I realize isn’t the most thematically on point, but having two different methods of communicating “this won’t die when you kill it” also seemed bad, so for now this is the plan. I’m interested in feedback though.
As of MOM, “double faced cards” refers to transforming double-faced cards, modal double-faced cards, and meld cards. Just thought you should know.
Now available for purchase through the Deckbuilder:
Architecture:
Aurelia, the Warleader Judith, the Scourge Diva Juri, Master of the Revue Niv-Mizzet Reborn Teysa Karlov
Constellation:
Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle Atris, Oracle of Half-Truths Kroxa, Titan of Death’s Hunger Daxos, Blessed by the Sun Renata, Called to the Hunt Tymaret, Chosen from Death
Crystal:
Gyruda, Doom of Depths Jegantha, the Wellspring Kaheera, the Orphanguard Keruga, the Macrosage Lurrus of the Dream-Den Lutri, the Spellchaser Obosh, the Preypiercer Umori, the Collector Yorion, Sky Nomad Zirda, the Dawnwaker
Depth Art:
Drown in Ichor Skrelv, Defector Mite Ossification Dragonwing Glider Planar Disruption Anoint with Affliction Volt Charge Contagious Vorrac Hexgold Slash Oil-Gorger Troll Flensing Raptor Gitaxian Raptor Quicksilver Fisher Testament Bearer Surgical Skullbomb Basilica Skullbomb Dross Skullbomb Maze Skullbomb Furnace Skullbomb Voidwing Hybrid Cephalopod Sentry Vivisection Evangelist Charforger Slaughter Singer Bladehold War-Whip Cinderslash Ravager Serum-Core Chimera Necrogen Rotpriest Tainted Observer The Fair Basilica The Surgical Bay The Dross Pits The Autonomous Furnace The Hunter Maze Mondrak, Glory Dominus Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus Drivnod, Carnage Dominus Solphim, Mayhem Dominus Zopandrel, Hunger Dominus Mite Overseer Serum Sovereign Kinzu of the Bleak Coven Rhuk, Hexgold Nabber Goliath Hatchery White Sun’s Twilight Blue Sun’s Twilight Black Sun’s Twilight Red Sun’s Twilight Green Sun’s Twilight Evolving Adaptive Bladed Ambassador Atmosphere Surgeon Exuberant Fuseling Vat of Rebirth Old Event Rewards MOM Singles Entering Deckbuilder – Main Set + Bonus Sheet DAs Archangel Elspeth Borborygmos and Fblthp Chandra, Hope’s Beacon Invasion of Innistrad Invasion of New Phyrexia Invasion of Ravnica Invasion of Shandalar Invasion of Tarkir Kroxa and Kunoros Monastery Mentor Sword of Once and Future Thalia and The Gitrog Monster Wrenn and Realmbreaker Zimone and Dina Zurgo and Ojutai Goro-Goro and Satoru Katilda and Lier Slimefoot and Squee Ancient Imperiosaur Archpriest of Shadows Baral and Kari Zev Bloated Processor Bloodfeather Phoenix Boon-Bringer Valkyrie Breach the Multiverse Chrome Host Seedshark City on Fire Complete the Circuit Deeproot Wayfinder Djeru and Hazoret Doomskar Warrior Drana and Linvala Dusk Legion Duelist Errant and Giada Ghalta and Mavren Glissa, Herald of Predation Glistening Dawn Grafted Butcher Guardian of Ghirapur Hidetsugu and Kairi Hoarding Broodlord Inga and Esika Into the Fire Invasion of Alara Invasion of Arcavios Invasion of Gobakhan Invasion of Ixalan Invasion of Karsus Invasion of Tolvada Knight-Errant of Eos Kogla and Yidaro Omnath, Locus of All Ozolith, the Shattered Spire Pile On Progenitor Exarch Quintorius, Loremaster Rampaging Raptor Rankle and Torbran Realmbreaker, the Invasion Tree See Double Sunfall Transcendent Message Tribute to the World Tree Voldaren Thrillseeker Yargle and Multani Zephyr Singer Aerial Boost Aetherblade Agent Akki Scrapchomper Alabaster Host Sanctifier Angelic Intervention Arachnoid Adaptation Assimilate Essence Atraxa’s Fall Attentive Skywarden Beamtown Beatstick Bladed Battle-Fan Blighted Burgeoning Bola Slinger Bonded Herdbeast Burning Sun’s Fury Coming In Hot Consuming Aetherborn Converter Beast Corrupted Conviction Cosmic Hunger Crystal Carapace Cut Short Disturbing Conversion Dreg Recycler Enduring Bondwarden Ephara’s Dispersal Etched Familiar Etched Host Doombringer Expedition Lookout Eyes of Gitaxias Failed Conversion Fertilid’s Favor Final Flourish Flitting Guerrilla Flywheel Racer Furtive Analyst Golden-Scale Aeronaut Halo Hopper Halo-Charged Skaab Hangar Scrounger Ichor Drinker Ichor Shade Infected Defector Inspired Charge Iridescent Blademaster Karsus Depthguard Kitesail Kithkin Billyrider Knight of the New Coalition Kor Halberd Marauding Dreadship Meeting of Minds Mirran Banesplitter Mirrodin Avenged Moment of Truth Negate Nezumi Informant Oculus Whelp Onakke Javelineer Order of the Mirror Overgrown Pest Phyrexian Archivist Placid Rottentail Portent Tracker Protocol Knight Pyretic Prankster Ral’s Reinforcements Redcap Heelslasher Saiba Cryptomancer Scrollshift Searing Barb Seed of Hope Serpent-Blade Assailant Shatter the Source Sigiled Sentinel Skittering Surveyor Stasis Field Sunder the Gateway Swordsworn Cavalier Tarkir Duneshaper Temporal Cleansing Tenured Oilcaster Thrashing Frontliner Thunderhead Squadron Trailblazing Historian Traumatic Revelation Unseal the Necropolis Urn of Godfire Vanquish the Weak Vengeant Earth War Historian War-Trained Slasher Wary Thespian Wildwood Escort Wrenn’s Resolve Zhalfirin Shapecraft Artistic Refusal Astral Wingspan Blightreaper Thallid Captive Weird Collective Nightmare Compleated Huntmaster Copper Host Crusher Corruption of Towashi Elspeth’s Smite Fearless Skald Furnace Gremlin Furnace Reins Gift of Compleation Glistening Deluge Gnottvold Hermit Harried Artisan Herbology Instructor Invasion of Amonkhet Invasion of Azgol Invasion of Belenon Invasion of Ergamon Invasion of Kaladesh Invasion of Kylem Invasion of Lorwyn Invasion of Moag Invasion of Muraganda Invasion of New Capenna Invasion of Pyrulea Invasion of Regatha Invasion of Ulgrotha Invasion of Vryn Invasion of Xerex Kami of Whispered Hopes Khenra Spellspear Lithomantic Barrage Merciless Repurposing Nezumi Freewheeler Norn’s Inquisitor Omen Hawker Oracle of Tragedy Phyrexian Awakening Phyrexian Censor Phyrexian Gargantua Ramosian Greatsword Ravenous Sailback Render Inert Sandstalker Moloch Scorn-Blade Berserker Scrappy Bruiser Seal from Existence Seraph of New Capenna Shivan Branch-Burner Skyclave Aerialist Storm the Seedcore Streetwise Negotiator Sun-Blessed Guardian Surge of Salvation Tandem Takedown Tangled Skyline Tiller of Flesh Vertex Paladin Wicked Slumber Xerex Strobe-Knight Zhalfirin Lancer Cragsmasher Yeti Fairgrounds Trumpeter Injector Crocodile Phyrexian Pegasus Zephyr Winder Essence of Orthodoxy Interdisciplinary Mascot Orthion, Hero of Lavabrink Surrak and Goreclaw Terror of Towashi Axgard Artisan Referee Squad Ruins Recluse Seedpod Caretaker Seer of Stolen Sight Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite Kenrith, the Returned King Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur Sheoldred, Whispering One Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon Urabrask the Hidden Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger Kroxa, Titan of Death’s Hunger Atraxa, Praetors’ Voice Grimgrin, Corpse-Born Yarok, the Desecrated Niv-Mizzet Reborn Ezuri, Claw of Progress Aurelia, the Warleader Thalia, Guardian of Thraben Sram, Senior Edificer Anafenza, Kin-Tree Spirit Baral, Chief of Compliance Emry, Lurker of the Loch Ayara, First of Locthwain Horobi, Death’s Wail Seizan, Perverter of Truth Captain Lannery Storm Squee, the Immortal Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma Yedora, Grave Gardener Obosh, the Preypiercer Gyruda, Doom of Depths Yorion, Sky Nomad Zirda, the Dawnwaker Keruga, the Macrosage Lurrus of the Dream-Den Kaheera, the Orphanguard Lutri, the Spellchaser Umori, the Collector Jegantha, the Wellspring Atris, Oracle of Half-Truths Firesong and Sunspeaker Taigam, Ojutai Master Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle Teysa Karlov Judith, the Scourge Diva Lathiel, the Bounteous Dawn Kwende, Pride of Femeref Daxos, Blessed by the Sun Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive Inga Rune-Eyes Tymaret, Chosen from Death Yargle, Glutton of Urborg Valduk, Keeper of the Flame Zada, Hedron Grinder Fynn, the Fangbearer Renata, Called to the Hunt Juri, Master of the Revue Raff, Weatherlight Stalwart Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty Rona, Sheoldred’s Faithful Dina, Soul Steeper Aegar, the Freezing Flame Reyav, Master Smith Radha, Coalition Warlord Shanna, Sisay’s Legacy Firja, Judge of Valor
Golden Age:
Atraxa, Praetors’ Voice
Harvest Tide:
Grimgrin, Corpse-Born Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
Hedron:
Yarok, the Desecrated Zada, Hedron Grinder
Icor:
Sinew Dancer Bladed Ambassador Quicksilver Fisher Thrummingbird Blightbelly Rat Bonepicker Skirge Sawblade Scamp Urabrask’s Anointer Rustvine Cultivator Cankerbloom Skrelv, Defector Mite Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines Mondrak, Glory Dominus Unctus, Grand Metatect Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus Geth, Thane of Contracts Phyrexian Obliterator Drivnod, Carnage Dominus Slobad, Iron Goblin Capricious Hellraiser Solphim, Mayhem Dominus Evolved Spinoderm Tyrranax Rex Zopandrel, Hunger Dominus Venser, Corpse Puppet
Invention:
Baral, Chief of Compliance Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer Reyav, Master Smith Sram, Senior Edificer
Aegar, the Freezing Flame Firja, Judge of Valor Fynn, the Fangbearer Inga Rune-Eyes
Manga:
Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite Ezuri, Claw of Progress Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur Sheoldred, Whispering One Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon Urabrask the Hidden Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger
The Eternal Wanderer Jace, the Perfected Mind Vraska, Betrayal’s Sting Koth, Fire of Resistance Nissa, Ascended Animist Kaito, Dancing Shadow Kaya, Intangible Slayer Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler Lukka, Bound to Ruin Nahiri, the Unforgiving
Firesong and Sunspeaker Kwende, Pride of Femeref Radha, Coalition Warlord Raff, Weatherlight Stalwart Rona, Sheoldred’s Faithful Shanna, Sisay’s Legacy Squee, the Immortal Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive Valduk, Keeper of the Flame Yargle, Glutton of Urborg
Storybook:
Ayara, First of Locthwain Emry, Lurker of the Loch Kenrith, the Returned King Lathiel, the Bounteous Dawn
Temple:
Anafenza, Kin-Tree Spirit Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma Taigam, Ojutai Master
Fixed a bug that caused the names for the THB Full-art lands to use the wrong font color
Fixed a bug that could cause the Friend Request pop-up to not properly show up on login for players with pending friend requests
Fixed a bug where the Preferred Printing collapse VFX wouldn’t always play
Fixed a bug that could cause the Preferred Printing button to improperly show up in limited events on mobile devices
Fixed some horrific cropping on the Eldrazi Horror tokens
Fixed a bug that made Seal Away’s VFX much brighter than intended
Gameplay
When multiple creatures are targeted by Avacyn's Judgment (cast for its Madness cost) and one of them is given Hexproof in response, that creature used to still take damage on resolution of Avacyn's Judgment This didn’t happen very often, but now it won’t happen at all.
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