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In this edition:

• Just One Week Left to Preorder The Lost Caverns of Ixalan
• See All the Cards in The Lost Caverns of Ixalan
• Streamer Event this Thursday, November 9
• The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Prerelease Begins November 10!
• Story Spotlight Cards for The Lost Caverns of Ixalan
• Don't Miss the Extra Life 2023 Sleeves and More
• Your Path to Magic Greatness Begins November 11
• Play in the Historic All-Access, Basically No Bans Event until November 14
• Dev Diary: What We Mean by "Basically No Bans"
• Chromatic Cube Is Back Tomorrow!
• Event Schedule

Register at: https://discord.com/channels/528728694680715324/753639027428687962/1170732619638521889

Play Phantom Sealed Midnight Hunt/Crimson Vow against the opposite set. You get to play with both sets so you'll get all of the rewards twice. It also goes to 4 wins, with the usual 2 rare ICRs and random cosmetic plus an additional special sleeve for the 4th win! The event ends in a little over 21 hours from now so you still have a day to play

Channel, Demonic Tutor and Tibalt's Trickery are the only cards banned in the upcoming Historic All-Access event

In this edition:

• Preorders for The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Available Now!
• The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Streamer Event: November 9
• Catch Up on The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Story
• Get Qualified for Arena Championship 5 in November
• Extra Life 2023 in MTG Arena
• MTG Arena Extra Life 2023 Treasure Brawl
• Dev Diary: Historic All Access, Basically No Bans
• Dev Q&A with Dave Finseth: October 31
• Event Schedule

I've been wanting to get started using XMage and thought it would be fun to play a few matches against the AI with the GRN Guild Kit decks (GK1) using the original printings. I found decklists on sites like mtg.wtf that list the card names and quantities, but they don't specify the original set name and card number for each card.

For example, this GitHub repo has decklists for various preconstructed decks, but also lacks the specific set information and card numbers.

What I'm really looking for are decklists that include the card name, quantity, set name, and card number in the set for each card, ideally formatted like this:

quantity [SETCODE:collector number] cardname

This .dck file format used by XMage would allow me to easily import the exact preconstructed deck I want to play with the original printings, without having to rebuild it.

It made me think how nice it would be to have all the preconstructed decks available as .dck files with the original printings specified, nicely organized into folders by product. That way I could easily grab the exact deck I want to play with in XMage without having to build it manually.

Does anyone know if prebuilt decklists with detailed set data like this already exist somewhere for preconstructed products like the Guild Kits? Or if not, I may try writing a script to generate them before manually creating the files myself.

Please let me know if you know of any resources where I could find complete decklists for preconstructed decks specifying the card names, quantities, set names, and card numbers! This would save me a lot of time in recreating the decks accurately in XMage.

In this edition:

• Join Us for The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Debut
• The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Preorders Begin Tomorrow!
• The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Streamer Event, November 9–10
• Feature Update: Favoriting Card Styles
• Arena Open Wilds of Eldraine Limited, October 28–29
• Shadows over Innistrad Remastered Fatal Flashback Returns
• Alchemy Ladder Deck Showcase
• October Spooky Cosmetics
• Event Schedule

In this edition:

• October Spooky Cosmetics
• Shadows over Innistrad Remastered Fatal Flashback Returns
• Interview with Shinya Saito, Arena Championship 4 Winner
• This Weekend: Best-of-Three Qualifier Play-In and Qualifier Weekend
• Arena Open Wilds of Eldraine Limited, October 28–29
• Play Boosters Announced
• Event Schedule

800 gems or 4000 gold per land 😳

In case anyone didn't see them in the Arena announcements. Coming in the October 10th patch.

From the announcements:

Orcish Bowmasters and The One Ring have been some of the strongest and most played cards in Alchemy and Historic since The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth™ was released. After letting the formats adjust to this release, we are rebalancing Orcish Bowmasters and The One Ring.

Orcish Bowmasters had no opportunity cost to be included in every black deck, and as a result, its enter-the-battlefield ability was pushing one-toughness creatures out of Alchemy and Historic. We want to maintain the card's role as a counter to card drawing, so we are removing enter-the-battlefield effect to reduce its warping impact on the metagame.

The One Ring was too efficient at effectively winning the game with its sheer amount of card advantage. We are adding a mana to the activated ability to give players more time to execute their own strategy or interact with The One Ring before it takes over the game.

In this edition:

• Congratulations to the Arena Championship 4 Winner Shinya Saito!!
• Alchemy: Eldraine Out Tomorrow!
• Alchemy: Eldraine Premier Draft October 10–16
• Card Rebalances
• In-Store Wilds of Eldraine Promos
• Spooky October Cosmetics
• Begin Your Magic Ascension This Weekend
• Event Schedule

https://www.magic.gg/news/historic-metagame-breakdown-for-arena-championship-4

Decks will be available tomorrow after the tournament kicks off

Check your inbox again! This time it's a rare wildcard and a random cosmetic (seems to be limited to rare/mythic card style, sleeve or avatar. Don't know if anyone has gotten a pet yet)