Please just give players who want nothing to do with digital only cards, buffs and nerfs their own queue.
By the way, the problems you try to adress is something you created yourself. Till you suspended lapse the format was balanced. The only thing it needs is old sets, thats where your energy should go not into something nobody even asked for. In case you forgot, the things most asked are.
-Pioneer masters
-4 player brawl
-removing countless bugs that mostly apply to specific PC configurations
-more pickable drafts
-lands as cosmetic instead of 500 different basics

Dear WotC,

I love MTG. I love Arena and the Historic format you have built there. I like Alchemy because I love innovation. But please leave Historic alone or at least create a Non Alchemic Historic next the Alchemized version. Please.

Thank you.

Having Historic not be affected by digital rebalances in a format which is completely unrelated to it should be the norm. Balancing digital only cards that are only legal in historic is one thing and is fine, but this means that the historic metagame is affected by decisions that have nothing to do with it.

Please leave historic alone. I like the jumpstart sets, and the picking and choosing of old cards to improve the format. But these alchemy cards and buffing/nerfing of old cards is going to ruin Historic. Historic has a great diverse meta, and is genuinely a fun format. But these changes will definitely drive me away from playing any form of virtual magic

I kindly urge you to consider separating historic from Alchemy or even creating another separate format for Historic Alchemy if players are interested in that. Many of us play historic exclusively on Arena, myself included, and have dumped hundreds of dollars into this game to build a large collection and be able to play many archetypes in an eternal format.

Alchemy undoes years of work and hundreds if not thousands of dollars spent on your game. Changes left as is, I assure you there will be a mass exodus of historic players leaving the client entirely as it is no longer the game we like and will cost far too much to continue playing.

Cancel Alchemy, fire the people who suggested and/or greenlit replacing historic with Alchemy only versions

Make a new client that supports commander

please create a separate queue for alchemy

Changing text on existing cards is a bad idea, especially when we're using money to get cards. And when we don't get reimbursed for the changes to those cards we didn't ask for just adds to the disappointment.

Luminarch Aspirant and the myriad of other cards you plan on rebalancing for Alchemy should stay in Alchemy. They are not contributing to balance issues in Historic.

With the ongoing pandemic, it has been quite hard to interact with Magic in a satisfying way, with Historic on MTG:A being the only chance for plenty of people to experience an eternal magic format. While I don't oppose the idea of Alchemy as a self-contained format and understand where the idea is coming from, I would like to voice my concerns about introducing more digital-only cards to Historic and therefore furthering it even more from the paper Magic experience.

#leavehistoricalone

As a player its very disheartening to hear that the cards that we have worked for, payed for and grinded for are no longer going to be what they were when we got them. Thats like buying a Fridge then G.E coming in and replacing it with a mini Fridge because the other used to much power. We arnt getting a refund nor wildcards. Why is the person(s) responsible for this decision not listening to your customers? Us, the people who work to then spend on a game they enjoy only to have some out of touch big wig come back and say "you know what is good for our pockets? Nerfing the game our consumers love" Its all profit and no quality of life. Set this as a SEPERATE FORMAT. If that were the case then I think the reaction to Alchemy would be MUCH better. But what do I know, Im just a consumer.

Changing the rules text of an existing card is stupid.

Historic just needs to be renamed to Historic Alchemy and work needs to begin on real paper eternal formats. I'm here to play paper magic on a digital platform first and foremost. Alchemy should stand alone or fail alone. Call the new format Pre-Pioneer and release a set a quarter. Problem solved.

I hate the digital only concept. Either keep it seperate or keep it out. I came to play magic, not this bs

To be clear, I want four lines:
- Standard that runs alongside paper (no ANB cards!)
- Standard with Alchemy (and ANB)
- Historic that is a strict subset of Vintage (no ANB or digital-only J21 cards!)
- Historic with Alchemy (and ANB/J21 full set)

Historic was the only format Arena players had where we had some crossover with Modern and Pioneer players. Adding Alchemy rebalanced cards to Historic will make it much harder for players from those formats to coexist, communicate, share play experience and grow further into the game. I hate this move, and the irresponsibility behind it makes my skin crawl.

Whale here. Leave the eternal formats alone, players invest time and resources into the game, for you to twist it into something totally different. If you are going to change the game, and this isnt what we signed up for or spent time or resources on…give me my money back. This isnt MTG anymore.

I dont even play historic, but I can easily empathize with the pain of those who do. Historic is supposed to be eternal, makes no sense to keep it up with the current standard meta balances just cause its "live".

Choosing "live rebalancing" of Historic cards kills my enjoyment of the format. I drop $50 a set, without fail, because I love having a large collection to play with in Historic. I don't mind that not all of these cards are playable in the format. I *absolutely* mind having playable cards nerfed without compensation or recourse. For that matter, I hate the idea of card nerfing at all. The lack of such behavior is one of the deciding factors that saw me playing Magic instead of Hearthstone or Legends of Runeterra.

I have stopped playing since yesterday's update. If this change moves forward, that will be true indefinitely. I will of course refrain from putting money into a game I do not play, so this is directly affecting your bottom line.

The only marginally acceptable alternative, if you insist on this nonsense, is introducing another "paper" non-rotating format. Give us Pioneer and I can play on the client while mourning the lost opportunity of Historic. Otherwise, maybe it's time to give up on the digital card game space, or maybe Pokemon will avoid live rebalancing of their cards. I guess we'll see.