How can you change language settings when you are not able to access the game at all? Does not make sense... By the way, in my case language was set to english and not any foreign language so the work-around obviously does not apply for everybody with this black screen issue.

Still nothing.... nice WOTC

Same problem, black screen after a few turns. Gems are gone. 2 loses. Not funny anymore

I received a knew answer from Wotc customer Service and I quote (Thank you for clarification of your issue. This is a bug that is currently being looked into by the developers. Information about the issue can be found in the following site. https://forums.mtgarena.com/forums/threads/66434

As you are already aware, a temporary work around while a fix is being worked on is to change the language setting in the client to English. We apologize for the inconvenience this may have caused and we thank you for your patience while this issue is being looked into.)
I think it was easier that 12 days later WOTC, in their game Status page clearly stated every day that they are still working in a game fix and not saying the game is Operational and making players look around forum after forum for an answer or a solution.

I received a knew answer from Wotc customer Service and I quote (Thank you for clarification of your issue. This is a bug that is currently being looked into by the developers. Information about the issue can be found in the following site. https://forums.mtgarena.com/forums/threads/66434

As you are already aware, a temporary work around while a fix is being worked on is to change the language setting in the client to English. We apologize for the inconvenience this may have caused and we thank you for your patience while this issue is being looked into.)
I think it was easier that 12 days later WOTC, in their game Status page clearly stated every day that they are still working in a game fix and not saying the game is Operational and making players look around forum after forum for an answer or a solution.

Neither Drafts nor Sealed matches work. Game does always crash and it is not possible to re-enter the session. Only after you have lost the match (because you weren't able to play and the time ran out meanwhile), the client is able to start the game again.

Lost many draft matches this week because the game crashes out of nowhere and didn't reconnect to the game in time. I've tried to change the language and checked my Internet ping and DL/UL and nothing was wrong with it. Didn't play the Metagame Challenge just because my gold/gems was lost in these crashes and also because a wasn't encouraged to play a "loss and out" event with these so recurring crashes.

Always after 2 weeks

I am tired of spending all the coins and lose them by losing battle after battle because once the game crashes it is impossible to go back to the game. Specially during DRAFTS.

Unfortunately, the game still crashes occassionally when playing with German language... less frequently than before the last update but still annoying...

I had crashes issues throughout the week, and it is simple, change the language to English, i have to suppose that it happens with another laguages. Please solve the language crashes issues, I can play in English, but I don't know why I have the obligation to play in a language other than mine for an error of the devs. Thanks for all.

Now constantly in every Game, last week only some times. It is now just impossible to play.
Please get that problem fixed and refund the gems

My friend had the same issue on his laptop running Windows 7. Nothing worked until I installed Visual C++
vc_redist.x64.exe. As soon as I did the Arena opened a ran as it should. Hope this helps some of you. Cheers.

game crashes all the time during the battle. thanks for losing points.
put money in new cards and the mastery pass and cant play ... very nice

Same here, black screen after start (infinite)

I'm also having this problem. Instead of loading in to a match, both my screens go black. I can't even get in to the task manager, so my only option is to power off.

Are they doing anything at all to sort this problem out?? ive been in the fcking black screen for 2 weeks now. I want all my money back.

My Game Cras often since the M21 core Set Patch. And i cant relog Till the round ist over. Lost a Lot because of this Bug. :/

Switch to english language, the grame won't crash
I was in French language and the game crashed 9/10. Now, no more crash

Le problème persiste. Quand on joue en français, le jeu se coupe en pleine partie. C'est très ennuyant !