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How to assign many blockers at the same time?
You can quick-assign blockers by simply clicking both stack indicators when assigning blockers. Note however, that it only works if you have stacks of tokens.
When attacking or blocking with a ...
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How to resolve lifelink with multiple blockers?
No, you get life equal to the total damage dealt. Your creature has 10 power, so it will deal 10 damage in total and you'll gain 10 life. The way that damage is split up between multiple blocking ...
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MTGA “tier protection”
Being a MTGA player too, I can confirm the info. You can't go back to Bronze when you are Silver, can't fall from Gold to Silver and so on.
The only time that happen is when the season changes. IIRC, ...
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Can I use the Angel of Grace exile ability when I have negative life?
Short answer:
No, you cannot activate the ability after lethal damage has been dealt. You can, however, activate the ability before the damage has been dealt.
Long answer:
In a normal situation, ...
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Which cards are legal in MTG Arena's pauper format?
Although there is no official format definition for Arena, Pauper as an older format has always been defined as: "cards with a common printing in allowed sets". So in Arena, this could be translated ...
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MtG Arena: Fifth card after draft or selaed
As of January 17th 2019 5th Card protection has been modified fairly heavily. However the changes as they apply to limited formats (Sealed, Draft, etc.) are fairly minor. You will still see in your ...
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How to specify mana usage from my mana pool?
According to answers to this question on Reddit:
If you have a mana pool with specific colors that you want spent specific ways:
Switch to full control mode by pressing Ctrl + Shift.
Cast the spell ...
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Magic: The Gathering Arena - How to switch basic land art?
Right now in Open Beta there are ways but they might add an easier way in the future.
Using Arena Interface:
When editing your deck write the land you want into the search bar (eg: Mountain)
Then ...
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How can I keep track of the number of cards in my collection while drafting?
Holding the Alt key while drafting will overlay the number of copies in your collection on each card with a message like 2/4. There doesn't seem to be a button on the screen to press for touchscreen ...
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MtG Arena: Fifth card after draft or selaed
For the moment, 5th copies of cards contribute points to something called The Vault, which requires 900 points to open.
Commons are worth 1 point, Uncommons 3, Rares 5, and Mythics 10.
When you open ...
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Why don't actions count towards quest?
You can not complete quests VS AI you have to challenge other players in any other play mode for the actions to count toward quests.
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How does matchmaking work in MTG Arena?
Nobody really has any hard evidence for how the matchmaking algorithms work, but I've always been matching with people my rank when it comes to ranked play. It could be that there are less new people ...
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How to resolve lifelink with multiple blockers?
Cadence has already answered this question. The relevant rules are:
702.15b. Damage dealt by a source with lifelink causes that source's controller, or its owner if it has no controller, to gain that ...
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How can I tell when events end?
You can also find this information in the Arena log file. This might be more reliable as the Event calendar has not always been kept up-to-date. The log file is called Player.log and can be found in ...
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How can I tell when events end?
You can do so by consulting the event calendar and noting it down.
On the event calendar you will always see ongoing events and their end-date. Sometimes it will give you exact dates like "10pm ...
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How to sac goblins to Skirk Prospector quickly?
There is nothing you can do to actually "instantly" activate Skirk Prospector, but there is something you can do to make it appear to your opponent that you are doing so.
If you drag your ...
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Magic Arena - Certain deck formats not listed when creating new deck
As far as I'm aware they're only available for events. It's odd that you can edit an older deck but can't create a new deck, though I assume something in the game's code allows you to turn a deck that'...
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Magic: The Gathering Arena - How to switch basic land art?
An update added this as a basic feature. You are now able to select basic lands like any other card by simply clicking the lands filter in the deck builder.
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