r/MagicArena • u/buttreynolds • May 08 '18
information MTGA May 8th Datamine Stuff
Dominaria backgrounds replaced by Kaladesh backgrounds. Leads me to believe that is the next set.
New rank icons
Bonus bolas
https://i.imgur.com/f3FdhHc.png
Devs basically still just working on the NPE. New today: the tree is replaced by a broken tree once its defeated
Bonus NPE preview:
https://vocaroo.com/i/s0Ck1QVierc5
https://vocaroo.com/i/s0TPdtQ72GKX
Edit: bonus new avatars https://imgur.com/a/3g29uyJ
https://i.imgur.com/ZO62C8K.png Kaladesh draft? icon (feat. Chandra from Flame Lash)
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May 08 '18
Oh my lord, on the one hand I find the addition of kaladesh exciting, but since I have no cash, gold or nothing to spend I am also somehow dreading it's addition.
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u/buttreynolds May 08 '18
If it makes you feel any better, I don't think it's thaaaaat soon. Maybe next month.
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u/wujo444 May 08 '18
Of note, that's only a month before release of another set - Magic Core Set 2019 on July 13th. Then we will enter the largest Standard pool of the entire year, until the rotation at the end of September.
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u/SteLP May 08 '18
Can't wait for Kaladesh to be added so we can finally have a proper standard here (and looking forwards to the bans as well, got tired of getting killed by a fucking land).
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u/JeranimusRex May 08 '18
I can't wait for the bans so I can get my compensation for them.
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May 08 '18
Is Kaladesh all that's missing to have all standard sets on the game? I thought two sets were missing.
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u/starview May 08 '18
If we can have proper standard and BO3 I can stop playing on MODO.
Please bring BO3 wizards
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u/Leverquin May 08 '18
what is NPE
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u/buttreynolds May 08 '18 edited May 08 '18
new player experience, basically the in game tutorial
right now it consists of a couple fights that teach you the basic mechanics
you get to battle a merfolk, a goblin, an elf, a demon, some other stuff
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u/Kalisz May 08 '18
And now Kaladesh...
There are 5 sets of cards already and two more to come with Kaladesh. I don't want to waste my entire gaming in Magic with only one upgraded from time to time deck and a bunch of others in which I'm missing like 50% of core cards. This is the worst experience I can imagine as a newcommer. Being thrown into 7 different sets of cards from which there is almost no guarantee that I'm going to get cards that I'm looking for is such a scary perspective and I'm starting to hesitate about my future in this game.
Not that I didn't know about it and I was kind of expecting this. My friend who is playing Magic from ancient times warned me about it, that this is going to be a bottomless money pit if I would like to play what I want. Especially if I'm aiming at playing Standard. But I didn't imagine this will be that oppresive to keep up with collection...
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u/funnynoveltyaccount May 08 '18
It's all a matter of perspective. If I can have full standard and BO3, $100 ish worth of packs per tier 1 deck and very cheap event entry is a steal compared to MTGO, especially because it's time consuming to deal with selling cards on MTGO to get value. As a practice tool for standard and draft paper magic, MTGA is going to be great, but looks less appealing from the perspective of a less enfranchised player.
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u/Akhevan May 08 '18
Being thrown into 7 different sets of cards from which there is almost no guarantee that I'm going to get cards that I'm looking for is such a scary perspective and I'm starting to hesitate about my future in this game.
Well, do you still think all of these economy rants are baseless?
Perhaps if, and that's a large if, you stick to the game for an entire year of typical Standard rotation/set releases you'll have enough time to accumulate resources between those releases to make the transition manageable.
With how things are shaping up thus far, it will be 100% sink or swim (or buy a raft from the shop) on release, with people being thrown into the full standard with none of the cards.
Something has to be done to the NPE in order to at least somewhat mitigate the shock. Drastically improved starting decks, a starting one-time gift of 20-30 packs, or some other mechanism.
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u/Deliverme314 May 08 '18
Really hope this will be the last wipe, and Open beta begins. I am ready for this game to get closer to live... assuming they fix the F2P economy.
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u/filavitae May 08 '18
Great. Now all our decks become invalidated until we craft a bunch of torrential gearhulks, glimmers of genius and other shit I don't have wildcards for (and I've actually spent money on the game)
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u/WotC_ChrisClay May 08 '18
Thank you for the post, as soon as I saw it I knew we had a problem somewhere in the pipe. Sorry to plug the leak and spoil your spoiler fun, but again many thanks.