Display for Mobile incorrect
Hey there, was playing the mobile version of Arena. I just lost a game because the visual representation of my opponent's board did not show me their entire board. So, my opponent had like over 100 things in play but on my mobile screen it only displayed, like, the first 50 or so. It looked like my opponent was completely tapped out and I could swing in freely. They then proceeded to block every single one of my creatures with offscreen creatures. The "block" arrows showing that things were blocking my creatures came from offscreen. The actual creatures themselves on my opponent's board weren't visible.
It would be one thing to have lost the game fairly, but that's supposed to be free/known information. If it's in play, I should be able to see it. So... It may not necessarily be a bug, but a mobile user incompatibility. This has never happened when using the actual client downloaded on a PC as that will always show the correct display. On Mobile... Couldn't see their entire board. Turned what looked like an easy kill into a suicidal charge, and it had nothing to do with the opponent's skills or mine. It's like if in paper the opponent snuck out a few cheatyfaces that were hidden on the board that you had no idea were there, except it was a lot less funny and a lot more "what the heck, they're blocking with invisible creatures from offscreen".
The timer was ticking low and I didn't think to take a picture till after I had already left the game, unfortunately, but I guarantee this actually happened. For more context, the reason my opponent had so many things in play was they had resolved the Sheoldred ultimate ability on her Saga and had returned both their graveyard and my graveyard to play, and because it was Brawl/EDH we both had like 40 things in our yard they could return. But I only got to see part of what they got back.
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DAC169#34537 commented
When there are too many objects of a kind (land, creature, or other) on the board MTGA will limit the display area of that kind of object & place arrows to signify that there's more. This happens on both mobile & PC, but the mobile version has a MUCH lower limit before that happens. Be sure to check thoroughly whenever they are displayed.