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MTG Arena Announcements – November 6, 2023 (magic.wizards.com)
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  • Streamer Event this Thursday, November 9
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  • 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
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They did explain their reasoning behind it. It's an all access event anyway. You can play whatever you want.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh cool I missed that. It definitely explains things but honestly a few points:

The top 20 cards showed up in 20% of all games played during the event.

That doesn't seem high enough to me. Channel and Demonic Tutor were played a lot because no one has been able to play with them before. They never posted what the actual single stats were for Channel or Demonic Tutor but even if those hit 1 in 5 games, that doesn't even seem that high at all to me. Certainly not to at least see what happens in round 2 of the event.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's an absurdly powerful effect that's banned in almost every format. To me it makes sense. I also think the stats were a bit skewed because the meta shifted from being channel decksto being channel decks vs anti channel decks to other decks. I know there were way more channel decks at the start of the event than at the end.