2023.24.00 Patch Notes – Alchemy: Phyrexia and Preferred Printing!

MTG Arena’s latest update for Alchemy: Phyrexia brings the usual 30 new cards for Alchemy and Historic, as well as the long awaited feature – Preferred Printing! Players can finally select their favorite basic land (or card) and have that as the default option when making decks. Check out the full patch notes below, and the full card list can be found in our set guide:

Game Update Highlights

• Alchemy: Phyrexia has arrived, with new cards, new boosters, and new events to play!
• The new Preferred Printing system lets you choose your favorite printing of a card, including selecting a favorite basic land

Notable Bug Fixes

• The Secret Lair logo was mistakenly added to several sleeves; this has been removed

Upcoming MTG Arena Events

Additional events added to MTG Arena. Read the MTG Arena Weekly Announcements to learn more!

General

• You can now save your preferred printing for each card, which will be the version automatically used when building a new deck, importing a deck, or in limited. Yes, this means you can pick a favorite basic land!
  • When you have multiple printings of a given card, they will all be displayed in a stack. Clicking the expand button on the stack will show all of the printings, letting you select one as your favorite
  • Note: Due to a bug, you currently cannot favorite a card with a style applied. We are working on solving this.
• Starting March 1st, you’ll be able to redeem the codes found on Magic: The Gathering Hot Pocket boxes! Get a multiverse of flavor and unique rewards such as a Pre-Constructed Deck, a Planeswalker Avatar, Sleeves, and XP.
• Golden Pack progress is now earned through the purchase of Alchemy: Phyrexia Packs (in addition to ONE).
• On desktop, we’ve adjusted how we’re displaying set icons in the packs tab of the store. We ran out of room to just put them all across the screen, so now you can scroll through them.
• Event tiles on the events tab of the Play Blade now show more information about the event, such as a rank badge to call out ranked events and progress pips for events you are actively playing

Gameplay

• The Undo button now shifts down dynamically if it’s behind the stack.

Store

Now Available

Bundles

Alchemist Bundle (Y23-ONE)

• 20 x Y23ONE Boosters

Cost:  3,000 Gems or 15,000 Gold

Secret Lair: Ssssssnakessssss

• Hexdrinker Secret Lair Sleeve
• Lotus Cobra Secret Lair Sleeve
• Seshiro the Anointed Secret Lair Sleeve
• Ice-Fang Coatl Secret Lair Sleeve
• Stonecoil Serpent Secret Lair Sleeve

Cost: 1,000 Gems or 5,000 Gold

Secret Lair: The ’90s Binder Experience

• Alms Collector Secret Lair Sleeve
• Crested Sunmare Secret Lair Sleeve
• Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma Secret Lair Sleeve
• Rin and Seri, Inseperable Secret Lair Sleeve
• Exotic Orchard Secret Lair Sleeve

Cost: 1,000 Gems or 5,000 Gold

Secret Lair: City Styles

• Sakashima the Impostor Secret Lair Sleeve
• Massacre Girl Secret Lair Sleeve
• Azusa, Lost but SeekingSecret Lair Sleeve
• Teysa KarlovSecret Lair Sleeve
• Paradise Mantle Secret Lair Sleeve

Cost: 1,000 Gems or 5,000 Gold

Flensing Raptor Pet Bundle

• Flensing Raptor Pet 
• Flensing Raptor Sleeve

Cost: 3,000 Gems or 15,000 Gold

Alchemy Styles: March of Progress

• Kemba’s Outfitter Depth Art Card Style 
• Innovative Metatect Depth Art Card Style 
• Vexyr, Ich-Tekik's Heir Depth Art Card Style 
• Surgical Metamorph Depth Art Card Style 
• Skullpiercer Gnat Depth Art Card Style
• Quicksilver Servitor Depth Art Card Style 
• Tezzeret’s Reckoning Depth Art Card Style
• Glistening Extractor Depth Art Card Style
• Spawning Pod Depth Art Card Style 
• Phyrexian Harvester Depth Art Card Style 

Cost: 2,250 Gems or 11,250 Gold

Alchemy Styles: Something from Nothing

• Ghalma the Shaper Depth Art Card Style 
• Hexgold Sledge Depth Art Card Style 
• Bladehold Cleaver Depth Art Card Style 
• Quicksilver Lapidary Depth Art Card Style 
• Phyrexian Scrapyard Depth Art Card Style 
• Sheoldred's Assimilator Depth Art Card Style
• Norn’s Fetchling Depth Art Card Style 
• Darksteel Hydra Depth Art Card Style 
• Nettling Host Depth Art Card Style
• Contagion Dispenser Art Card Style 

Cost: 2,300 Gems or 11,500 Gold

Alchemy Styles: Monstrous Evolution

• Magmatic Scorchwing Depth Art Card Style
• Rothga, Bonded Engulfer Depth Art Card Style 
• Ichor Aberration Depth Art Card Style
• Mephidross Slime Depth Art Card Style 
• Gyox, Brutal Carnivora Depth Art Card Style 
• Arek, False Goldwarden Depth Art Card Style
• Phyresis Roach Depth Art Card Style
• Seething Skitter-Priest Depth Art Card Style 
• Blightwing WhelpArt Card Style
• March Toward Perfection Depth Art Card Style

Cost: 2,200 Gems or 11,000 Gold

Card Styles

Now available for purchase through the Deckbuilder:

Depth Art:

• Rothga, Bonded Engulfer
• Darksteel Hydra
• Ghalma, the Shaper
• Phyrexian Harvester
• Arek, False Goldwarden
• Bladehold Cleaver
• Contagion Dispenser
• Blightwing Whelp
• Nettling Host
• Ichor Aberration
• Quicksilver Servitor
• Innovative Metatect
• Magmatic Scorchwing
• Sheoldred's Assimilator
• Glistening Extractor
• Surgical Metamorph
• Phyrexian Scrapyard
• Vexyr, Ich-Tekik's Heir
• Spawning Pod
• Gyox, Brutal Carnivora
• Kemba's Outfitter
• Mephidross Slime
• March Toward Perfection
• Quicksilver Lapidary
• Norn's Fetchling
• Phyresis Roach
• Seething Skitter-Priest
• Hexgold Sledge
• Tezzeret's Reckoning
• Skullpiercer Gnat

Bug Fixes

General

• Fixed a bug where the “Suggest Lands” selector in the deckbuilder could end up overlapping a land
• The Exquisite Atraxa sleeve on the Mastery Pass should no longer flicker ominously when you hover over it.
• Fixed a bug where the inbox and Golden Packs meter weren’t layering properly

Gameplay

• If you control a Churning Reservoir and an oil counter is removed from a permanent you control during your end step, you now get a stop to activate Churning Reservoir.
• Fixed a bug where Kemba, Kha Enduring would let you try to equip a Lion’s Sash to itself, in blatant defiance of 301.5c. The lions have learned their lesson.
• Adjusted position of land count badge on mobile platforms so that it won’t end up hidden behind the avatar
• Painlands that have been granted a non-pain way of producing that same color mana now let you choose which payment method you want. If making your painlands not hurt you, then wanting to get hurt anyway was part of your plan, we apologize for the inconvenience.