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Amen Ampersundae. Rezzahan should be paid for his time and expertise on this forum. I uninstalled Arena about a year ago and haven't been back to the forum for some months, but he's still here and still doing WotC's job pro bono.
Until WotC implements proper user support and player moderation, I won't be playing Arena again, BUT
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This system would be very welcome and would bring me back to the game.
I quit Arena about a year ago solely due to the moderation system being completely ineffective and constantly having to insta-concede to known jerks who consistently decide to rope in lieu of losing.
Honestly, this list size wouldn't have to even be that big (maybe 30 / account?) and it wouldn't be in effect for Draft or other mass scheduled events.
The litany of card-specific and networking bugs with every release I could (mostly) live with. The lack of basic player moderation I could not.
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Aside from adding civility to Arena, this could interact with the current turn system which could (likely) completely obviate the spate of "Arena-only" control decks that force the opponent to repeatedly time-out on their own turn.
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This is a known issue with the current turn/timer and there are even certain Arena-only decks that exploit this behavior "to win". Suffice it to say, the current system is inadequate to accommodate the possible game-state triggers in MTG.
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I'd go further and (akin to Cumulative Upkeep) ask WotC to no longer print any cards with the offensive mill mechanic or any sort of percentage effects.
Nobody likes playing against offensive mill and percentage effects smack of lazy game design within a finite state game like Magic.
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I stopped playing Alchemy quickly after launch precisely because the QA just wasn't there.
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I'd go further. Ban *all* alternative win conditions. The only ways to win would be to reduce your opponent's life total to zero or they somehow deck themselves. Also, offensive mill should not be a legal mechanic, but self-mill is fine.
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Sadly, this one of the many known Arena-specific timer exploit "combos". It IS unfair and Arena should blanket-address ALL of these exploits by changing the timer/turn-timout mechanics.
The only "defense" against this card is to not play against it.
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The Arena interface should notify the user of this policy this occurs. Though the workflow itself is not a bug, the interface's interaction is unintentionally confusing as evidenced from the many repeated postings of this "non-bug".
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Were any other cards on the battlefield? For example, Bloodletter of Aclazotz would double the loss of life enabling a 1-hit insta-kill regardless of life total.
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I have, unfortunately, come to the same conclusion as Ampersundae.
Somewhere along the way in the past 5 years or so, WotC stopped caring about making Arena a software product of even the bare minimum of workmanlike quality, let alone having good game design or fostering a healthy player-base.
Arena atm is just about provisioning the absolute bare minimum of resources to publish new cards under 3rd party IPs.
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Rezzahan is correct. Do a few random distribution series and you'll see that even large sequences (1000+) of something as simple as a "coin-flip" have clusters of sequential Heads and Tails.
The important property is there's a convergence to a 50/50 distribution. This is known as the Law of Large Numbers.
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The interface should notify the user why this crafting is not possible. Presently, the interface contradicts itself.
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Yep. I stopped playing Arena due to all the allowed trolling and conduct issues that WotC never took action against.
This is just not a viable system to support the publication and maintenance of _any_ software product--let alone a free-to-play 1vs1 competitive ranked game.
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Yes. This is a known issue and there is now an entire cohort of Arena-specific "turn time-out" control decks that setup this scenario as their "win" condition. It's wrong on so many levels.
To Klayoric's point, no LGS I've ever played at would allow "jank towers" in any Standard tournament aside from an explicit "FNM Chaos" event, but Rezzahan is absolutely RAW spot-on. Not related, see my prior comment on his long-time undue credit on this forum.