Same for me - can’t play direct challenge. Can’t submit deck and I lose network connection. Worked for one game and consistently crashes identically to screenshots from other comments.

If this isn't fixed by end of year I'm out only started to play with friends they wanted me to play and teach me.

Unable to submit deck, attempted over and over again. Latest log attached.

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the worst thing is ZERO communication ... wizards seems to be the worst company for talking to players

how long does u need to fix this ?

Open App
Try to play game with friends
"Unable to submit deck"
Close app

Fix your **** app wizard or lose fans simple as that

My friend and I have been having the same problem. Most frustrating experience with the game so far by a lot

I think many like me are on the verge of giving up on this game… Such a Great game, fun and it really is good for us players who can’t play magic IRL. This is a very CRITICAL SITUATION and Important please fix this… This for many of us in the community would be the last straw… I will try to play with my friend from
Out of state… If it doesnt work, I will take this to social media in the hopes many share and see this and hopefully something gets done or updated…

Hello,

I am experiencing this as well with my friend. He is playing on Android, I am on PC.

We get various messages, the latest one (I didn't get a screen cap) said something along the lines of "could not connect because your challenge options mismatched." and then offered to take me back to the deck selector, but I cannot leave that screen. It crashes on Android when my friend gets to the deck selector and makes a selection.

So ****** off I can’t play my friends please fix the issue I don’t play as much anymore

Agree with I_Am_Legend here. The primary individual I play with just moved onto another game with a group of friends because we couldn’t play together anymore. Meanwhile… no response.
Is there a community manager here? Product manager? Support staff? Is this MTG Arena product 100% engineers incapable of communicating about the issues?

I’ve worked in software engineering for 20 years and this is the least organized approach to managing a software product I’ve seen yet. Doesn’t give any confidence that our cards aren’t going to just go up and missing at some point and we’ll have no way to communicate with anyone about it except through class action…

Still happy to provide whatever additional logs would help troubleshoot this. Or give me NDA and access to the Terraform, .Net source, AWS or otherwise and I’ll start digging into it and communicating back progress here….

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Same exact issue here. This is a huge deal breaker for me. Being able to play with friends directly incentivizes us to play the game regularly to earn more cards, and to build more decks. We want to beat our friends which means more engagement and more money spent to build better decks. Without this feature, my whole friend circle just chooses to play something else instead.

Also this has been broken for months, if not years. But has just been getting to the point of unplayable the more updates are released and it is not fixed.

Wizards of the Coast. Fix this or your player base dies. We cant play with our friends. Majority of the time.
Here's a link to your broken friendly challenge. https://imgur.com/a/vZK0LAS
Also why do we not have 2 headed dragon, or 4 player commander. Or any updates your player base ACTUALLY wants.

Same happens here I can see threads that are dating back to 4 years ago with this issue whicheans it's an ongoing one and permanent fix hasn't been found yet, before the update it was also happening but some days if ur lucky enough you get the chance to play with friends. Now however it never works, tried all the workarounds. Wizards please do something! Your magic doesn't work! So please as a developer give some feedback to the community. It's becoming ridiculous...

When the **** are you fixing this, Wizards? Give some feedback

I won't spend another cent on this game until I can reliably play with my friends again.

Same experience, sometimes works, often does not. Various network error logs or could not load deck.

I really think we should Otori… This is seriously frustrating and sad, a great game and not being able to simply play it with friends is just unacceptable!