Explorer Anthologies
Explorer Anthologies should mostly contain Pioneer playable cards. An inspirational list is attached:
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ServantofCygnus#75049 commented
The handling of Explorer as a second-rate priority is embarrassing. Cards being cut from existing, perfectly fine sets and Anthologies consistently failing to fill the gap is embarrassing.
But Explorer Anthology 3 comes off as openly malicious towards everyone who actually likes Pioneer and wanted to play the full format on Arena, and it's pretty disappointing if nobody on staff feels any remorse for that.
Do better.
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Aeldroth#37408 commented
This Anthology is more than frustrating as a pioneer player. I would like to have more of the critical cards from paper pioneer. Treating Explorer as a different format is awful.
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DuffySuck#59952 commented
very few cards of this explorer anthology are seeing play in pioneer, and there were absolutely more urgent cards you could have considered adding
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EpiC#89896 commented
We were told that getting the pioneer cards that matter onto arena is the priority, EA3 clearly goes against this statement. Please either tell us that pioneer is not something you want on arena or start adding relevant cards. Stringing your community along like this and getting our hopes up every 6 months is not the way to go about it.
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Grapnar#55226 commented
Historic anthology is the best one ever. Explorer anthology is by far the worst. There are many great options for cards to add. Playable options in EA3 are slim. Best argument I can see for having such a poor anthology is to not shakeup historic too much. If that was your concern stagger the releases and give us good cards. 0 chance I buy EA3
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.Pikolak.#43378 commented
You promised to be working on adding relevant Pioneer cards as a priority. You are not delivering that promise. Either admit you do not want Pioneer to be available on Arena, or start delivering the promise. Otherwise lot of players will leave. The ice is too thin now.
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Winkers#13717 commented
The historic anthology is great and I will be buying it but the explorer one is, well, I'm pretty sure you already know. Its kind of funny that that the historic one brought historic closer to modern than the explorer one brought explorer to pioneer. Little in the explorer one even inspires me to brew and I'm a brewer at heart, which is why I want to give real props for the historic one, best anthology ever released by a decent bit.
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BthePhenomenal1#15126 commented
Hello,
Explorer has been the reason I buy paper magic cards (sealed and pioneer pre con decks), because explorer gives me and others a way to (somewhat) play our favorite eternal format. Of the goal of these Anthologies is to pull explorer in alignment with pioneer, this anthology failed. Now my friends are I are less inclined to play arena and actual paper magic because it appears that having pioneer on arena is not the vision for this company. I'm less inclined to bring friends into the game because of the disconnect between what they can practice on arena and what they might face at a local fnm. -
zebo95#93956 commented
This is pretty on the nose. I want to get into pioneer but can’t afford/don’t have the time to actually do it in paper and the arena ladder is a great alternative, but I can’t really get into it without better anthologies.
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geardaddy#16733 commented
Hi. I'm a whale. I spend over $100 on every set that comes out. I buy every anthology on day 1. I will not be buying EA3. The set as a whole does nothing to change the meta. The cards feel almost as if you took 2 meta-relevant cards, a few cards that used to be relevant, and then rolled dice for the rest of the set. I hate to tell you, but you need to bury those dice. You rolled a lot of Nat 1's.
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Erizo86#11511 commented
The impact of this anthology over the explorer format is minimal and doesn't get us much closer to the pioneer meta.
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Gun_Thor#08871 commented
Please add cards that see play in the real pioneer metagame. There is no reason to purchase an anthology that has no constructed playable cards.
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FatSheep#12941 commented
This anthology is an absolute joke, people have been waiting for certain decks in pioneer to be arena viable for years now, lotus combo got 2 of its pieces and somehow it wasn't even completed even though the missing piece is a common. Two relevant mythics to creativity were added in this anthology but they're one ofs, no one is going to buy an anthology instead of spending 2 mythics wcs. Still no bring to light, still no delve cards. Even if you wanted to penny pinch this anthology is so bad no one is going to buy it because its simply not worth it, this anthology is an attempt at being greedy but it fails to do even that, incredible. Pure incompetence.
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TheArcanineTamer#09566 commented
I'm incredibly disappointed by the contents of Explorer Anthology 3 and will not be spending my money on the product. We as a player base were given a promise that the anthologies would be used to bring meta relevant pioneer cards onto the arena client, and I feel that promise has been broken. After a whole year of releasing anthologies there are still several relevant pioneer decks that are in a completely unplayable state and that is unacceptable to me. Please, do better, I want to play your game and spend money on it, but cannot justify that when you make greedy and harmful decisions.
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Soysauce44#14527 commented
Extremely disappointed by this anthology. I have bought all previous ones and won't be this time around. I desperately want to be able to play pioneer on Arena, please!
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Justboy#57470 commented
This anthology is a slap in the face of players, pure and simple. The silly part is by diluting these anthologies you are actually just costing yourself money. Hardly anyone will buy this and instead just craft the one or two relevant cards, if that. Provide a proper anthology chock full of cards that see play and help bring tier 1-3 decks to arena and people will buy it, even at a premium.
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kennosaurus#68294 commented
agree with this comment below: Please consider sticking to your word of "our priority on card implementation will be driven by what we see in the Pioneer Constructed meta."
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Supermacross#16792 commented
Worst product you’ve released on Arena to date. I stopped spending money about a year ago when I saw a focus on digital only magic and no compensation for banned cards.
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Izno#80230 commented
Are you serious with that shield? Come on now, you should be embarrassed with the quality of the explorer anthology list
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tautoudh#76729 commented
As a player of all formats who doesn’t care about competitive play, keep up the great work with anthologies! EA3 and HA7 looks great.