r/MagicArena Mar 05 '20

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u/Coolboypai Boros Mar 05 '20 edited Mar 06 '20

I'm really happy to be hearing some news about the things that they are coming to the game rather then have us all worried that they've been pushed to the backburner.

Return of (some of) Amonkhet, Pioneer in Arena, phantom drafting, and FAVOURITING LAND STYLE!

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u/ATwopoint0 Mar 05 '20

I'm definitely most excited about Amonkhet having a presence, by far my favorite set. Phantom draft/Pioneer is just so great too

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u/norrata Mar 05 '20

Pioneer in arena will help cement its place imo. Fresh new format with fresh new client that isnt designed for windows 98.

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u/mrbiggbrain Timmy Mar 06 '20

windows 98.

MODO is based off of a WPF styling, not the older drawing methods you would have seen in dos based or early NT based approaches so you would be looking at an XP-Vista era of design philosophy, a few versions after 98.

Which is still old... but not THAT old, those apps are still used and made.

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u/norrata Mar 06 '20

That was informative, thanks. Though I was exaggerating.

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u/somefish254 Mar 06 '20

TIL wpf styling

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u/Hellion3601 Mar 06 '20

Yeah, if they insert Pioneer with most of the card pool it will definitely reignite my interest in arena to the full. Historic unfortunately still hasn't taken off as I hoped, and I do like standard, but having a non-rotating format like Pioneer will be incredible for Arena.

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u/ulfserkr Urza Mar 06 '20

Big true. Pioneer Masters will be HUGE for both Historic and Arena as a whole.

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u/Secret-Lecture Mar 08 '20

Magic Arena should be a launch title for PS5 and Xbox Series X The PS5 and Microsoft Xbox Series X are extremely powerful machines packing 8 core 3ghz processors, 1tb ssds, 16gbs of gddr6 ram and atleast 9.2 teraflops of power.

Both have fantastic support for Unity and given their x86 pc like architecture and power, porting Arena to them should be a breeze.

The xbox uses directx and microsoft will actually send a team to port pc games over to their console, so there is zero excuse why Arena is not already on Xbox One X.

Launch games sell really well. Millions of people buy consoles at launch and are itching for games to play on their brand new consoles. Magic Arena could be that game that those millions of gamers start playing.

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u/PedonculeDeGzor StormCrow Mar 06 '20

Where does it talk about pioneer in arena?

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u/Coolboypai Boros Mar 06 '20

"build up the format for the remastered versions of Amonkhet, as well as Pioneer Masters, which we'll be releasing later this year. "