I've been playing Magic for 23 years, and Arena since the Beta. I drop ~$100 a set. I love Arena, and for the most part have not had any issues with the decisions so far... until now.
I don't like the idea of Alchemy (though I get why its a cool thing to try) but that's fine, I can simply ignore it. What I can't ignore is the effects Alchemy has on Historic. I fail to see any reason why cards that are too powerful in Standard need to be nerfed in Historic. It makes literally 0 sense to me. I really, really liked Historic before this change and even the digital-only cards from Jumpstart even though I was apprehensive at first. But this is too far, and with a weeks notice before the changes happened too.
And what about new players? This is already probably one of the most complex games in history... why confuse players even more when their cards do one thing in one format and another thing in another?
Please please PLEASE revert these changes for Historic at the minimum.
I've been playing Magic for 23 years, and Arena since the Beta. I drop ~$100 a set. I love Arena, and for the most part have not had any issues with the decisions so far... until now.
I don't like the idea of Alchemy (though I get why its a cool thing to try) but that's fine, I can simply ignore it. What I can't ignore is the effects Alchemy has on Historic. I fail to see any reason why cards that are too powerful in Standard need to be nerfed in Historic. It makes literally 0 sense to me. I really, really liked Historic before this change and even the digital-only cards from Jumpstart even though I was apprehensive at first. But this is too far, and with a weeks notice before the changes happened too.
And what about new players? This is already probably one of the most complex games in history... why confuse players even more when their cards do one thing in one format and another thing in another?
Please please PLEASE revert these changes for Historic at the minimum.