I don't know if anyone will read this, but please don't consider historic a 'live format'. Its main purpose in the first place that people were asking for was to have an eternal format in MTG Arena and this move absolutely renders this moot. How can you have an eternal format if it its cards suddenly are different from what they were printed as, or follow different mechanics from other play modes? Where is the overlap between people who enjoy Historic and people who would like to try out a new format in Alchemy?
I probably have thousands of hours playing the various Historic modes, it is my favourite format on Arena and the closest thing we have to any of the eternal paper formats. If the only flavour of paper Magic we can play on Arena going forward is Standard, I think you will lose a lot of players coming from or primarily playing paper Magic. I certainly don't know if I'll stick around if this happens as planned.
I don't know if anyone will read this, but please don't consider historic a 'live format'. Its main purpose in the first place that people were asking for was to have an eternal format in MTG Arena and this move absolutely renders this moot. How can you have an eternal format if it its cards suddenly are different from what they were printed as, or follow different mechanics from other play modes? Where is the overlap between people who enjoy Historic and people who would like to try out a new format in Alchemy?
I probably have thousands of hours playing the various Historic modes, it is my favourite format on Arena and the closest thing we have to any of the eternal paper formats. If the only flavour of paper Magic we can play on Arena going forward is Standard, I think you will lose a lot of players coming from or primarily playing paper Magic. I certainly don't know if I'll stick around if this happens as planned.
Please reconsider.