Product Suggestion Leave Historic Alone
With the new Alchemy format, can we please have it separated from Historic? You are going to be nerfing cards considering the standard environment, please leave them alone for Historic decks.
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The Swamp King#78790 commented
Have certainly spent for the last time on MTGA. Shame for WotC with Christmas right around the corner.
It's like ya'll sit around wondering "how do we make this less enjoyable today?"
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LyingPastry#52957 commented
I know I'm not the first one to say this so I'll keep it brief... don't mess with our Historic format. The game is too expensive to be changing cards we planned around whenever you feel like it.
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HBKshawnmichaels#44729 commented
I bought many passes during the past two years and logged in pretty much every day.
I am now at day3 of no Arena, enjoying TFT who has not such a predatory economy.
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DemonicOfAngels#59504 commented
I only play historic brawl, but this has impacted that format as well. It turns out that it did me a favor, though. This update has made me realize that I don't enjoy arena anymore, and I haven't for a while.
When my deck rotated out, and I didn't have enough wild cards to build a new one, I was forced to stop playing standard. When historic brawl was introduced I chose it as my format of choice, but it's mostly devolved into the same things over and over.
I now realize that there really is no reason for me to continue playing arena. Since I'm no longer playing ranked, there is no real progression other than grinding out levels. I hate it, and I'm done.
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Ilian Rank#95423 commented
I like play old cards like Teferi, Lightning Helix, Narset and so on. But I strongly dislike digital cards and digital mechanics. By my opinion, immutability of cards is strong side of MtG, it is its preference over Heartstone, Gwent and other computer card games. So, please, make separate eternal paper (non-digital) format of game. Separate version of Historic without digital cards (including ones were added in Historic Horizons) will be OK.
Otherwise I will deeply consider to uninstall the game.
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OneOfThePetes#57928 commented
I am now on Day 3 of not playing MTGA, and I am actively mentioning to friends that the game is not recommended.
It is no longer installed.
It will remain uninstalled until one of these things happen:
1) Historic & Historic Brawl changes are rolled back
2) A second untainted Historic & Historic Brawl queue is added
3) Pioneer is brought to MTGA. It doesn't need to have all pioneer legal cards. It just needs to be eternal.This is non-negotiable.
I have sunk a lot of money into MTGA.
Starting to think about what I can sink my money into instead.
Time to short Hasbro stock. Should get my money back in no time.
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bwb#76544 commented
As has been said by many here, Alchemy in general is fine. But having it completely corrupt Historic is awful. Either have 2 versions of Historic like you do now with Standard, or have Historic use traditional Standard versions of cards.
Also, no WCs when a card is nerfed is ridiculous.
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Lord West#66938 commented
At least have a separate format with Alchemy cards and remove Alchemy from Historic. Please!
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BlueWolfSerenade#45152 commented
Screwing up historic with your forcing altered cards on us and cards that dont exist in paper magic is really killing this game for me. Youre not hearthstone. People love magic for being magic. Why try so hard to be something youre not? Seriously... Think its time I move back to MTGO permanently. Arenas just becoming more unenjoyable by the day. I was absolutely loving Historic Brawl.. but thanks to alchemy thats all fkd up.
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Big Hack#89451 commented
Rebalanced cards were fun for events, but the players do not want them in historic. Time to listen WOTC
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Hrbolicious#94226 commented
What the **** WOTC!
The only reason I play arena is for historic and I only spend wild cards for historic.
Someone let me know when this **** is out of my format so I can reinstall.
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Giocher#20841 commented
Give us a proper historic eternal format matching paper cards, without balanced and digital cards. That is what people wants, playing real magic on a digital platform.
Historic was one of the healthiest format atm, an awesome place to be, please keep it that way. I don't care much about pioneer, i do like that jumpstart, anthologies and modern horizons cards brought the powerlevel inbetween modern and pioneer, it was great.
Just give us historic as it was, with only real paper cards and keep adding remastered sets.
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Weshii#91772 commented
At the height of my time with Arena, it feels, I have just finished uninstalling it. I don't have a consistent way to play paper magic, and my Arena collection vastly outnumbers my paper collection, so my way to play this game I was really getting into has just been taken away from me. I don't regret spending the $50 investment into a mastery pass bundle that has given me a consistent way to keep earning cards and gems for several expansions now, and I probably would have kept slowly dropping money into it as my passion grew. But now if I want to play magic in the little free time I have, I no longer have a way of playing the way I want to.
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Conan314#34531 commented
Don’t nerf cards without compensation!
Alchemy has too many rares and mythics.
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EwokNuggets#90545 commented
I don't mind Alchemy as a format and I would play it. I don't mind digital cards. I don't entirely mind shaking Historic up. I would prefer to see a paper eternal format like Pioneer introduced, and maybe have Alchemy cards not be all Rare and Mythic, but whatever.
The hill I will die on is changing cards I paid money and resources to access and not refunding me that purchase. It's borderline a bait and switch practice that has me wanting to uninstall. Two of my best friends already uninstalled over this nonsense.
You want to create a new mode and introduce digital stuff? Great! You want to do that at the expense of the user experience and added cost to your players? No. You do realize your competition (WHO IS BEATING YOU FINANCIALLY) is significantly more user friendly....right?
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Zakmalados#63934 commented
Yeah... what all those other folks are saying!
Honestly , what the **** is wrong with you, WOTC?
You know you've **** the bed again.
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Zakmalados#63934 commented
Yeah... what all those other folks are saying!
Honestly , what the **** is wrong with you, WOTC?
You know you've **** the bed again.
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Das#99577 commented
Historic was the best thing to happen to Arena. Adding the Alchemy version cards into this format absolutely ruined it. I have uninstalled Arena with zero intentions of returning until Alchemy cards leave the format.
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SkoiBear#51147 commented
Please listen to the community :(
WotC,
You know Historic players don't want this. Your decision was not an oversight or a mistake. We understand that Hasbro is pressuring you to increase sales by 15% every year, but we also love Magic and want it to be fun, exciting, and reliable. PLEASE I hope anyone reading this can forward a message to management at WotC: I implore you to consider meeting your 15% profit increase by making the game great and bringing new players to the table, rather than making the game more expensive and trying to fleece your dedicated fans for every penny of disposable income they have.
Magic is a great game that we love, and I know we can work together to make it more fun, more inclusive, and most importantly for WotC more profitable.
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Bubz4420#80447 commented
Alchemy is fine as its own format but please leave historic alone.