When it comes to the best digital collectible card games, Magic: The Gathering Arena surely comes in the top five spots. The game has been developed & published
by Wizards of the Coast. The game allows players to gain cards through booster packs, in-game achievements or microtransaction purchases, and build their own decks to challenge other players.
Coming to the topic, a new patch has arrived for the game & it has brought some enhancements & bug fixes to the game. Today’s update is coming with version 1.07.00.05. You can check it’s complete details down below.
Magic: The Gathering (MTG) Arena April 23 update
Events
IKORIA: LAIR OF BEHEMOTHS PREMIER DRAFT
- Adjusted Rank-Based Matchmaking for Premier Draft
Developer’s Note: As some of you may have noticed, there were certain scenarios where you were being matched against somebody with a much higher (or lower) Rank than yours – this should address that issue. Regardless, players were still being properly matched on their current W/L record (Ranked draft formats use both your rank and your win/loss record when searching for an opponent).
- Adjustments to opening-hand algorithm for Premier Draft
Developer’s Note: We intend for best-of-one formats to use a modified opening-hand algorithm which pulls multiple potential opening hands and chooses one; Premier Draft was operating contrary to that, and we have fixed it accordingly. To stave off any conspiracy theories, it was previously using our best-of-three opening hand rules (which pulls one, and only one opening hand).
GENERAL
- “Checking for Updates” should take significantly less time.
- Autotap and Smart Stops once again recognizes when certain modal spells (e.g. Thassa’s Intervention) can cast one mode but not the other.
BUG FIXES
GAMEPLAY
- Sideboarding a designated Companion into your mainboard during best-of-three matches should now function correctly.
CARDS
- Lurrus of the Dream-Den now correctly handles X values in converted mana costs (For spells with X in their mana costs, use the value chosen for X to determine the spell’s converted mana cost. For example, if a permanent spell costs xWhite, you could cast it with X as 1 but not as 2).
- Jubilant Skybonder’s cost increase now functions correctly when there are multiple instances of this card on the battlefield.
- Players can now appropriately select cards from their graveyard with Mausoleum Secrets.
- Setting Zirda, the Dawnwaker as your Companion will no longer cause the game to crash if you have cards with the Ascend keyword ability in your deck.
- Mythos of Brokkos should no longer bring back non-permanents from the graveyard to your hand if cast with no permanents in your graveyard.
- Mutated creatures are now counted as one creature for Settle the Wreckage, as they should be (702.139c of the Comprehensive Rules, if you’re curious).
- A mutated Cavalier of Thorns should no longer be able to target “itself” if you chose to exile it when it dies.
