Digital

In this edition:

• Arena Open: The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth™ Limited, July 1–2
• Best-of-One Qualifier Play-In, July 8
• Quick Draft: The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth
• The Two (Command) Towers Brawl July 7–14
• July 7–9 Celebrate Magic at Your Local WPN Store
• Correction: June Ranked Season Pack Rewards
• Two New Anthologies Are Coming July 18!
• August Qualifier Weekend Format Change
• Event Schedule

Thought I'd share the Narset deck I put together for Standard Brawl. I think Narset is one of the best Brawl commanders, and extremely good in Historic Brawl too. The win rate of the deck has been great, I've really only lost if they manage to dedicate enough removal to keep Narset off the field consistently.

Anyone else trying her, maybe in HBrawl? I bet there are some cards she'd work great with that aren't in Standard.

In this edition:

• The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth™ Is Here!
• June 30–July 11: The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth Quick Draft
• Arena Open This Weekend
• July 7–9 Celebrate Magic at Your Local WPN Store
• Event Schedule

In this edition:

• The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth™ Release Tomorrow on MTG Arena!
• The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth Release Notes
• Get Ready for the Next Arena Open
• Event Schedule

From someone who posted on the other site

Thank you for contacting Wizards of the Coast Customer Service! The issue with the Mastery Pass not granting Uncommon ICRs on Levels 70 and higher has been reported to the Arena development team. Players who are missing Uncommon ICRs will be receiving a grant sometime in the near future. Thank you for your patience while this is being worked on.

Make sure to finish your quests* as you will get a 3 brand new ones after the update. Your weekly wins will also reset, so if you need or want the XP for your Mastery Pass, finish them up before then as it won't carry over.

*Worth noting that there is occasionally a glitch where the quests will get "stuck" right before the update, but still award gold. So they can be "completed" over and over again for extra gold. It's happened at least twice so far, afaik (most recently with MOM). Up to you if that's worth saving a quest or two and playing right before the update just in case.

I was planning to set up a bot to post the Arena daily deals screenshot each day, and I was curious if it would be better to put that in a dedicated Arena room or just leave it here.

My wife and I just recently got into MTG and decided we want our focus to be paper, but we also like the idea of digital as we learn since it forces us to play by the rules and we can use it to test out things we're unsure about. We also like the idea of digital for times when we can't be bothered to break out decks and such. So while we'll primarily focus on paper we will invest some into digital.

We're still deciding on which digital platform to really invest our resources into, though. I like MTGO for its "close to paper as possible" philosophy, but I get the impression Arena is golden child of Wizards and likely to have more staying power long term. The ability to play Arena pretty much anywhere, including mobile, is a big benefit as well.

So for the more seasoned players out there that may have focused on one or the other, or even both, what's your experience been? Why did you lean into one versus the other?