MTG Arena State of the Game 2024 | With Ian Adams and Chris Kiritz

MTG Arena's State of the Game and State of the Formats
At MagicCon: Las Vegas, we looked at the future of Magic and all the exciting things we have in store. Today, Chris Kiritz and Ian Adams discuss the state of MTG Arena.

00:00 Introduction
00:29 What are MTG Arena's biggest hits of 2024?
00:54 What were the biggest challenges of 2024?
01:55 What are you most proud of achieving, and why is it Modern Horizons 3?
03:20 Anything you would have done differently this year?
04:18 What are your favorite feature implementations?
04:57 What was the most challenging cardset to implement this year? And why is it Modern Horizons 3?
06:20 Are there any other mechanics that were challenging to implement on MTG Arena?
06:45 What was the most challenging card to implement on MTG Arena?
08:21 How excited are we to have announced Pioneer Masters?
08:40 What else can you tell us about Pioneer Masters?
09:33 What is the next big thing on the MTG Arena roadmap?
11:11 How do you feel about MTG Arena's economy?
12:22 Are those coming soon?
12:53 What can our most competitive players expect over the next year?
14:03 What can you tell us about WPN & MTG Arena?
15:17 What's next for Alchemy?
19:10 What are the plans for Brawl?
20:32 What other things can players look forward to in 2025?
22:13 Are there any plans for backlisted content?
22:45 Are there any plans for Universes Beyond to come to MTG Arena?
24:05 Any final words for our players?

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About Magic: The Gathering Arena: MTG Arena is a digital collectible card game available on desktop and mobile, for beginners and long-time Magic lovers alike! Collect, build, and master your unique deck that will become its own legend. Earn rewards and go head-to-head against friends or other players. Start playing for free and feel the magic of the original fantasy CCG!

[irrealrodrigo]

Match history is needed please. Is really good to know what happened on the match.

[andersfrandsen]

As a software developer, it is SO refreshing to finally hear that the underlying design of the app is being taken seriously. In the first couple of years, this was not at all the impression that you got listening to the development updates. Very happy to hear some clear direction on this!

[Rucarlos]

Golden Pack meter for every Standard set is absolutely great

[NickTemperistic]

Please give us more opportunities to earn gold. Maybe some weekly quests or monthly quests that take some time to complete but give great rewards? Also thank you very much for the transparency in this video especially in regards to 4 player multiplayer which I hope will be 2 headed giant.

[dustinross]

I would love to be able to adjust Sparky's difficulty level and choose the deck he plays with.

[irrealrodrigo]

Also, put the commander decks on arena. Would love to have the duskmorn brawl in there.

[KomoliRihyoh]

19:30 "A problem that has not been cracked." Are you kidding me??? This has the easiest solution: Offer 2 bundles, one that has 1 copy of each card and another with 4 copies of each card, and have *that* one be no more than four times the price. *It's not rocket science!*

[returningwhisper]

Very happy to see Pioneer Masters coming out next month.

[Neocronomicon]

After the Game it would be nice to see the Handcarts from the opponent

[Neocronomicon]

Pls let us also play against KI for daily quests and let us build test Decks against KI 🤖 without wildcards ‼️

[Lobosthecrow]

I hate the matchmaking system auto-matching me against similar decks. I want to paper, rock, scissors the decks I'm seeing a lot of, not play mirror matches all day. And an actual casual format would be nice.

[Neocronomicon]

Booster are to expensive for casual player go to 500-750 Gold.. or change the rate für wildcards 4 booster to get a new Wildcard 🤷🏼‍♂️ so many ideas..

[TheShepherd_]

Consistency on putting commander precon cards on Arena would be nice. Some are put on the client but others are not.

[sharkrash]

Spectate, login bonuses, brawl vs sparky, match history, we need a lot of stuff.
But for the love of God, those trigger stacks defeating people because your game cant disable those animations...

[soybomb]

A format like Brawl, but actually focused on casual deck building is be my biggest wish. It feels like playing singleton legacy too often instead of the fun unranked experimenting format it really should be

[יעקבהס-תר]

Thank you guys a lot for all the work you do. Arena is great and I love that it only getting better every year.
One thing I would change about the mastery pass / achievements is that I have noticed that a lot of the rewards there are cosmetic, and some players (including myself, in some level) aren't really interested in this type of stuff. I would like the orbs to be able to be transformed into actual cards from the appropriate set, as an alternative use, for those who are not interested in the cosmetic all that much.

[Hikusaak]

An event without sweepers (or at least the more powerful ones) and without some other cards that could get out of hand if there are no sweepers around would be great for people who want to play the game. There is way too much denial of play.
You had an event like that a number of years ago, and I thought it was really fun. Bring it back and make it permanent.

[Neocronomicon]

This Game need a Daily Log in System (not just Quests) weekly or monthly with some Gold, after some Days a Booster etc. just for open the App ‼️

[asms]

Love these kind of update inside look videos! So happy to hear that none of the Arena staff had to crunch, especially with how busy the release schedule was this year! Hopefully Hasbro hires on more people to help with QA to lessen the bugs that come up every set release, cause the Arena team does a great job with the game itself, they just need to get funded more.

[DogginsFroggins]

Looking at MTGs rules being put into code in a multiplayer game seems extremely difficult, congrats on making it so seamless. I appreciate that they are giving a lot of information but being upfront that basically everything is a maybe.