Turn Timer
Issue #1: Storm decks often cast 20 to 40 spells in one turn when "comboing off" to try and win the game. The Turn Timer is Insufficient to allow the completion of storm decks's win con. In reality, it can take 1 or 2 minutes to finish the combo with a lot of cantrips while clicking as fast as possible.
Issue #2 Roping sucks! People who have lost the game will use up their remaining time just to troll. No fix to the turn timer can give them more time to troll with.
Suggestion: 1st reduce the turn timer by 10 seconds. Also, Each spell cast during a turn adds 10 seconds to the turn timer for that turn. This grants enough time for complex lines to be considered while comboing off. Storm cards where added to MTG Arena and players have spent money to have them. It is an oversight that the game will not allow storm decks to combo off.
Arctic Hydra#51723
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MGmirkin#16543
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With respect to the roping out issue, it's annoying A.F. Especially when people intentionally or unintentionally leave a match before it starts, so you're left sitting through several rounds of timers before they blow up. But also, sometimes you get sore losers who hate losing and will just sit there running down timers, intentionally, and like clicking on something to move to the next step or phase **just before** their timer runs out so they then get a new timer to continue running down.
In my opinion, the start of game timer situation and some others could be reduced by **not giving people a "grace period"** if they already ran down one timer. During their last step, phase, or turn. Like if they fully ran down their timers to zero. When they move on to the next step / phase / turn they shouldn't get any "extra" "bonus time." Like at the start of the game, if they rand down a timer to zero last turn, currently it gives them a good 15-30 seconds *before* it starts a new timer on them.
IMO, if they ran it down last turn (intentionally or due to disconnecting [intentionally or otherwise]), it should **immediately start a new timer** as soon as their next turn starts. Only if they're actually present, and actually do active things should that timer go away. Otherwise, make them go boom and let me move on to the next match, not waste five minutes on unnecessary extra timers waiting on someone who's disconnected and not even there.
Why punish the person who's present and ready to play, making them wait for someone who's not present intentionally or otherwise? I feel like some people do it intentionally to make people concede the match in order to not waste time waiting for timers, and get "free wins," or whatever.
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Dovahkiin#76396
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Agreed.
It's very annoying, and rude, when an opponent "bails" on a session simply because of defeat, and doesn't just end it. Having to sit through 4 time outs because they closed the game, or whatever sux.It would also be great if we could BLOCK other players so we never have to play them again....J/S
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Zsmiff#14361
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Strong agree
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MrBadluck#66964
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If you either allow us to skip animations or freeze the timer while animations are shown that would also help.
If you resolve a minds desire with a stormcount upwards of 40 you only win if your opponent wants you to since your turn will be over by the time the animation ends and most often they show unsportsmanlike behaviour by abusing the timer instead of conceiding when they have obvioulsy lost -
Fhqwhgads#62309
commented
Nice! This is a good suggestion.