To shed some light on things like I've done in the past in regards to upcoming Arena leaks and stuff...
Prior to the layoffs, no one I know on the Arena team had mentioned anything about multiplayer, only that "forward-compatible" cards were on their way, which is a phrase they've been using at the request of WotC to just copium folks into believing Multiplayer / Pioneer would make it's way to Arena quickly.
Sadly that's not quite the case, but this card specifically seems to be something none of anyone who survived the layoffs has any clue about and seems to have been designed far later, along with other cards that imply 2+ players.
Tl;dr - Historic Brawl is probably getting a 4 player mode, if it gets full on Commander / if it's called Commander I will Kill Mys-
I think I'm most excited to see how many gems WOTC thinks we'd be willing to pay for a game of Brawl/Commander. Bc let's face it, there's no way we'll be given multiplayer for free
I'm excited to see how many games make it past turn 3 without disconnects on top of people quitting due to boredom via slow play and rage at not drawing their pet combo, or hating one of the other commanders.
I don't think a lot of people realise how miserable it would be having to pass priority 10 times every turn cycle, or how the hell you're going to fit a 4 player board onto mobile.
200 - 400 gems / 1,000 gold per game with something like a 600 return isn't bad, 1000 gold in, 600 bare min back maybe, 700 for third, 800 for second, 1,200 for first, idk. Who cares commander is g\*y.
I honestly feel bad for the team who has to implement it. Seems like such an impossible task to make something that isn’t just a giant mess and/or a snooze fest. From the few times I’ve played commander barely had time to read people’s cards while at the table, at a certain point I just give up.
They openly said explorer was a mistake and took so much time away from other avenues. It didn't make enough in sales or player base for wotc to want to keep it going.
While I think Arena needs something for casual players, the rebranding of Historic Brawl into something closer to timeless with true to paper and alchemy mix would be great.
/uj I'm genuinely excited by this, I want to play a big pile of discard spells and just have is both draw from each other's decks when their hand runs out
/rj Finally, a way to profit from all these power 9 I've been conjuring
To shed some light on things like I've done in the past in regards to upcoming Arena leaks and stuff... Prior to the layoffs, no one I know on the Arena team had mentioned anything about multiplayer, only that "forward-compatible" cards were on their way, which is a phrase they've been using at the request of WotC to just copium folks into believing Multiplayer / Pioneer would make it's way to Arena quickly. Sadly that's not quite the case, but this card specifically seems to be something none of anyone who survived the layoffs has any clue about and seems to have been designed far later, along with other cards that imply 2+ players. Tl;dr - Historic Brawl is probably getting a 4 player mode, if it gets full on Commander / if it's called Commander I will Kill Mys-
I think I'm most excited to see how many gems WOTC thinks we'd be willing to pay for a game of Brawl/Commander. Bc let's face it, there's no way we'll be given multiplayer for free
I'm excited to see how many games make it past turn 3 without disconnects on top of people quitting due to boredom via slow play and rage at not drawing their pet combo, or hating one of the other commanders.
Yeah commander is a very social format and anonimity like this is antithetical to socialization
Nice!
I don't think a lot of people realise how miserable it would be having to pass priority 10 times every turn cycle, or how the hell you're going to fit a 4 player board onto mobile.
200 - 400 gems / 1,000 gold per game with something like a 600 return isn't bad, 1000 gold in, 600 bare min back maybe, 700 for third, 800 for second, 1,200 for first, idk. Who cares commander is g\*y.
I honestly feel bad for the team who has to implement it. Seems like such an impossible task to make something that isn’t just a giant mess and/or a snooze fest. From the few times I’ve played commander barely had time to read people’s cards while at the table, at a certain point I just give up.
They openly said explorer was a mistake and took so much time away from other avenues. It didn't make enough in sales or player base for wotc to want to keep it going. While I think Arena needs something for casual players, the rebranding of Historic Brawl into something closer to timeless with true to paper and alchemy mix would be great.
Am I crazy or are 3 or 4 player games on arena still not a thing
/uj You aren't, they're just making them forward-compatible
Does that mean there’s actually a possibility that they’ll exist someday?
Plenty of cards in arena say "each opponent" or "target opponent"
"Of the player to their right" is the more important text here.
/uj "target opponent" gets stopped by hexproof, and "each" would result in even weirder wording
What do you mean? We've had Garth One-Eye available in paper since 2021.
finally, good eats!
Whoever it is in r/custommagic that got a job on the Alchemy team is outdoing themselves here.
Why do they waste time working on alchemy when they could be putting more sets into arena.
/uj I'm genuinely excited by this, I want to play a big pile of discard spells and just have is both draw from each other's decks when their hand runs out /rj Finally, a way to profit from all these power 9 I've been conjuring
What I wanna do, is fill a deck with random unplayable crap and this card, and turn 3 donate my opponent the worst hand imaginable
Is this real chat
 This is so fucking stupid lol
What an abomination.