Wildcards for alchemy downgrades (or even better, no rebalanced cards in historic)
Hello. 25 year player and this is first time I have felt the need to express my opinion. I have loved playing arena since it came out. And as a paper legacy player I have been excitedly following the historic format since its inception.
To say I have been disappointed with the implementation of rebalanced alchemy cards for the historic format is an understatement. That said I have accepted that it’s probably not going away. My major complaint at this point is the fact that we don’t receive wildcards for powered down cards. It’s a real feel bad moment using your hard earned rare wildcards on a new card only to have it powered down. For example I had a the soulherder deck and excitedly crafted a few Inquisitor Captains when it came out. With the new change, they now aren’t worth running in the deck and I have nothing to show for them. Feels like if I were to replace the sink in my kitchen only to find out the next week that the hot water knob was removed. Feels like you didn’t get what you paid for.
I love the game (obviously if I’ve been playing it for 25 years) and love having access to arena to play whenever I want, but it feels like you now have to be constantly worried about using wildcards lest they be powered down sometime in the future.
In short, please just go back to banning cards in historic and keep the rebalance stuff for standard alchemy. (Or give us wildcards)
Thanks for reading