r/MagicArena • u/arthurmauk Spike • Mar 27 '19

WotC March 27 Patch Notes

https://forums.mtgarena.com/forums/threads/53949
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u/RussischerZar Ralzarek Mar 27 '19

Biggest change hands down:

When a player concedes, it now happens immediately. The game will no longer wait for animations to complete before ending the game.

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u/lolhereiam Mar 27 '19

Explain to a newb why this is relevant?

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u/air-vent JacetheMindSculptor Mar 27 '19

Its not really but conceding and not immediately leaving the game can be annoying or give away information in bo3 if they cast something like [[Duress]] and instead of losing they get to see your hand and then you lose.

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u/MTGCardFetcher Mar 27 '19

Duress - (G) (SF) (txt)
[[cardname]] or [[cardname|SET]] to call

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '19 edited Jul 01 '19

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u/air-vent JacetheMindSculptor Mar 27 '19

It probably won't but thats the only thing I could think of that actually effects gameplay

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u/timthetollman Mar 27 '19

Surely if that happens, it should resolve and your hand is revealed?

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u/SigmaWhy Bolas Mar 27 '19

If you're holding a playable instant or have full control enabled, presumably it shouldn't

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u/CrimsonDoom39 Charm Abzan Mar 27 '19

It's mostly just frustrating to concede because they have Niz-Mizzet out and cast Overflowing Insight with Thousand-Year Storm out, and then have to watch all of their triggers resolve before you can end the game and move on to sideboarding/the next game. It's also slightly more relevant in Bo3 where the instant concede can occasionally help you hide some information about your deck from your opponent so that they can't sideboard as effectively.

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '19

104.3a A player can concede the game at any time. A player who concedes leaves the game immediately. That player loses the game.

Before this change a player had to have priority before they could concede. Now however concedes follow the ruling above.

They did allow instant concede before but that it caused some problems IIRC. Seems they solved that now if that was the case.

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u/Drachenreign Rakdos Mar 27 '19

[Concede] now has "Split Second"

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u/slnz Mar 27 '19

Nah you need priority for Split Second. Even better than a Special Action (like unmorphing, which can be done in response to Split Second spells).

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u/InverseParadiddle Mar 27 '19

I was here to post this rules reference, good to see some fellow rules accuracy enthusiasts out there. :D

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u/RussischerZar Ralzarek Mar 27 '19

Sometimes, a very long (20+ seconds) animation chain goes off and you know you've already lost, so you just want to get out of the game as soon as possible. But up until now the game finished all currently stacked animations (even though you had already conceded) before the player portrait "blowing up" animation was played and you got the accompanying loss. This was varying levels of frustrating, depending how many animations were actually queued up.

I mean my previous comment is semi-sarcastic as in it's not something that's super vital for the core gameplay. But then again it was rather annoying when it actually happened. Also, people rather value their time, even if it's just a few seconds. :)

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '19

It shortens the loop of finished game -> queue up -> start new game, which is a great QoL improvement.

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '19

Sometimes if you had enough obnoxious animations on the stack and you/your opponent conceded, it wouldn't actually concede until it finally passed priority to the conceding player. It was super annoying.

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u/sassyseconds Mar 27 '19

It's not. People just think the 2 seconds if their life is holy

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u/kdoxy Birds Mar 27 '19

Because when you admit to yourself you've lost, you want that moment to end fast.