Ranked Brawl: Tainted Pact (+ Thassa's Oracle) not working properly and causing Ranked losses
Game Mode: Modified Ranked Brawl
Time of Occurrence: 2026/04/13, match ended around 01:45
Players: Rafael A. A. Merlo (myself) vs. SuburbanSith
Description of Issue: This is the 3rd time I get a ranked loss in succesfully executing the Tainted Pact + Thassa's Oracle combo, the hallmark of paper cEDH gameplay and available to us in this mode. Since the interface doesn't have a "Decline All" button (and I already once, when trying to Decline one by one, mechanically clicked the wrong button, leading to a loss), recomendation from YouTubers and content creators is to let the timer ("rope") run out and the system automatically Decline them all for us, which leads to a win by the Thassa's Oracle Trigger.
But thrice, in the middle of Tainted Pact's resolving, during the system automatically stops and issues a Defeat for the Tainted Pact Player. From 5 times that I performed this combo and my opponent let the timer/rope go by, only 2 times the system correctly resolved the Tainted Pact. I already lost 3 ranked games where the resolution was interrupted due to a Defeat issued by the system when Tainted Pact was mid-resolution.
This is a critical issue that I saw more people on social media and this forum going through the same. The most famous combo of cEDH is bugged on MTG Arena and causing ranked losses. This needs to be addressed.
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Rafael A. A. Merlo#53705
commented
I did not went through 4 timeouts in any of the cases. I went through 2 timeouts once and 1 timeout twice (which is the case of the match of the screenshot) of those 3 cases mentioned.
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Rezzahan#77802
commented
If you go through 4 full timeouts, then you lose for being inactive for too long