Explorer Anthologies
Explorer Anthologies should mostly contain Pioneer playable cards. An inspirational list is attached:
-
fab47#18975 commented
This anthology is a slap in the face for every pioneer player that had hopes that one day explorer will become pioneer.
Even though it was announced that anthologies are shaped by the pioneer meta we have now proof three times that this is not the case.
Our hopes were not high and we still got let down
-
pdb#08279 commented
20+ year competitive player here, other than introducing monthly limited arena opens (which are basically a license for wizards to print money anyway), the handling of this client has been disastrous. This anthology is an especially egregious example. I cannot fathom the reasoning behind it. Even allowing for multiple "remastered" sets coming down the pipeline where you'd want to hold off on highly played pioneer cards from them, this suite of cards is unacceptable.
-
Alphanet#29227 commented
As fireshoes correctly pointed out, this EA3 was just a huge slap in the face to all the Arena users. Choosing cards so poorly that you managed to disenfranchise a central member of the community like fireshoes is impressive, and the fact that you didn't even provide an explanation for the card choices shows how little you care for your customers. Which is a pity, because Magic is great and it would be so much fun if you gave more relevance to player feedback
-
Astor_Of_Keld#00289 commented
The anthology should focus more on putting Pioneer playable cards on Arena, not Accorders Shield
-
phili402#07504 commented
This Anthologie is a total disaster. If you see the historic Anthologie 7. That is a realy great Anthologie, interessting cards with a lot history and play in diffrent formats. And this explorer Anthologie is useless. 4 cards are slightly important for the format and 2 of them are unplayable because the most important parts from the combo aren't on Arena. You can finish the format in 2 or 3 Anthologies if you want. When wotc make this progess in the future, we get Pioneer 2045 or something like this
-
Konschtat#67108 commented
I went from spending $50-75 a set not including anthologies to converting to free to play over time.
No delve cards, Bring to Light, Chained to the Rocks, Reckless Bushwhacker?
I want to play Magic Arena more, put money into building my collecting, and I love the client - but with the last few Explorer Anthologies I feel disrespected. I never comment on anything online, I know the Magic community will gripe about anything and everything, but this has been pretty frustrating to see how the community is valued.
-
lsn11#18675 commented
Explorer was supposed to be a temp solution until enough pioneer cards were brought to arena which is fine but with this anthology it doesn't seem like you are working towards that promised goal. Do better!
-
Schrödinger#52729 commented
This anthology is borderline insulting to people who want Pioneer. The playerbase of MTG:A is not going to migrate to MO and thus the only way (and the promised way) is to bring Pioneer to MTG:A. And yeah, we want Pioneer, not more kitcken magic, so we only care about cards that see play in the format, specially those keys to some archetypes.
-
milhomes#88782 commented
We have lands with no play and some other usless cards. We miss 5-6 staples to bring arena several meta decks. Disaster
-
Rafford#67565 commented
I want to play Pioneer on Arena because it's my favorite format, but you guys are making fun of your player base for a few dollars. You'll see the consequences of this on the long run, that's for sure
-
Sixik#59132 commented
Unfortunately a missed opportunity to move the format closer to the intended state of reflecting Pioneer.
-
Ephialtes#92534 commented
Voting
-
Magi52#47316 commented
Go check companies like Theranos.
They promised.
And they lied.
What you are doing to us is exactly the same.
You promised.
And you lied. -
schmogals11#56289 commented
Please focus on explorer it is one of the better formats on arena and would only get better with the cards needed to make the pioneer decks playable
-
ZMD6#04040 commented
It is disheartening to see that WotC does not moving on to bring "cards that matter" to the exlporer.
-
Fr0sty#75966 commented
This anthology has been a massive disaster, with so few playable cards in it. I understand that you are making these months in advance. But with the goal making explorer as close to pioneer as possible this has missed majorly. There has been a similar set of cards that have seen consistent play that haven't been added. Those cards should be a priority, not these brawl centric cards. If you want to do that add them to the historic one or make a brawl anthology
-
Fettpett#11802 commented
If the states goal is to get to Pioneer, then give us PIONEER cards, ones that are played and a bigger anthology that a dozen cards...do a full remaster set.
-
delzed#19101 commented
Explorer Anthology 3 was massively disappointing. Two of the included cards are actually very beneficial to the specific deck I'd like to play on Arena, but it makes little difference as to how much I'd like to engage with the client. I want to play my Pioneer deck against other people's Pioneer decks- if major pieces of the format like Ossification, Hidden Strings, Bring to Light, Treasure Cruise and Dig Through Time are missing, the meta is not going to reflect the Pioneer meta and I don't want to play. It's a shame because I would love to be able to meaningfully engage with Explorer, I'd like to get excited about events, I'd like to spend money on products like EA3, but the approach to this product seems extremely misguided and I think the community's response (and spending habits) will reflect that. I hope EA4 comes soon and includes the cards proposed above.
-
painclick#73367 commented
EA3 cards are very dissapointing
-
Yevgen#39397 commented
Your recent antology is just slap in the face of pioneer players. You promised explorer to become pioneer eventually, instead you print cards that no one is going to use and tell it's very hard to do the rest. Complete competitive card pool that we need is just ~100 cards, but you add irrelevent cards instead. Start doing what you promised!