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Just faced a dude in brawl who had Loot as the commander clearly not attacking me and building a big board. He surrendered once i made 2 giant creatures but I wasn't going to attack so I could help him land the 7 mana achievement.

I had just completed it myself so I know how annoyingly hard it is.

So just don't surrender for any of the achievements you're doing. Some people are actually aware and will help you!!

about the event : https://magic.gg/news/arena-championship-13-viewers-guide
metagame : https://magic.gg/news/arena-championship-13-standard-metagame-breakdown

Decklists will be available when the first round begins.

I have a [Ygra, Eater of All] brawl deck, and opponents very often misplay her ward due to some confusion with the UI. If you don't know, her ward cost is sacrificing a food, and she makes all other creatures food.

When targeting her, the ward cost pops up then you have to click "resolve", THEN you choose a food/creature. I keep seeing opponents sacrifice a creature on their own by paying the 2 mana, then click resolve, but that doesn't count as paying the cost in arena.

Since its not a very common ward cost, and it would be easy to do on paper, I feel bad when people misplay it and either sacrifice two creatures or aren't able to pay the ward.

To be clear, if you just dont read the card, that's on you, but i do feel bad when its obvious someone just got tripped up by how the game asks you to pay the ward cost.

We probably all have a list of cards that we will love to see go, but what card will you miss the most?

For me, it’s [[Mosswood Dreadnight]]. It’s so underrated. Yeah, it looks a little meh on the surface, but that works to its advantage. The recursion is what makes it awesome. Five for one is pretty common. I’ve gotten as much as nine for one. We trade. They use removal on it. Heck, I just chump block. Every time it dies I basically get to draw two cards, one of them being the Dreadnight itself.

As a free to play player, I am dreading the loss of this staple.

Edit: To be clear, it’s Dreadknight, with a k. I’m kinda pissed at myself for that mistake. I know the difference between night and knight.

I purchased the reality fracture bundle for Pass and Booster.

However I noticed on my credit card statement that wizards actually charged me twice for the mastery pass bundle. Steam Support also confirmed I was charged twice.

Raised a ticket with support and I believe they said the pass bundles came with boostered and they have been opened. I am very confused, now I don't exactly recall how many booster there were, but my understanding is that those bundles are ONE TIME purchase? I couldn't possibly have purchased TWO pass bundle even if I wanted. What wizards support is suggesting basically is an impossible scenario correct?

What are my recourse to take this further? They have since then just closed my ticket. If they are going to charge me I should at least be charged to receive the product I paid for.

In this specific case what I have received from wizards:

1x Pass Bundle

1x Pack Bundle

I am being charged for on my credit card:

2x Pass Bundle

1x Pack Bundle

Edit: I am going to try to open up another ticket and see if this time another person picks it up. The person handled my last ticket had it in their signature as ‘’supervisor" so i am not even sure if it was already internally escalated once.

Is there any way to actually skip them instead of having to click next for every single lifegain if there is any action you could take?

It’s literally so annoying to watch your enemy play by themselves for 20 minutes while their triggers resolve and you have to click next time and time again.

Can’t even go do something else in the meantime

I keep seeing folks having difficulty with this achievement, and it was definitely the hardest one for me, so I figured I'd help with a tip. Nyxbloom ancient is your friend. Triples mana output, so you don't need a board of 7 different creatures, you can do it with 3.

Today I finally recieved my Hobbit collector booster boxes from the Arena Direct event. They were delayed at customs for ages - Fedex said they required information from Wizards, and Wizards refused to provide anything to Fedex via my submitted tickets. Eventually I was able to get them by calling in to Fedex and telling them they may act as my broker in lieu of the missing information which worked.

I won 6. After all that, I opened my package today and found only 5. The shipping box was in perfect condition and did not look opened at all. My assumption is it was packed with only 5 boxes. I submitted a support ticket with Wizards, but based on my past experience, I'm not hopeful.

Has anyone else recieved the incorrect number of boxes before? Did you ever get the missing boxes? Or am I just screwed out of nearly a thousand dollars?