Patch Notes - 2026.58.0

  • Updated

Game Update Highlights

  • Secrets of Strixhaven is soon to arrive! Find your place among the five colleges as we put down the books and prove your college is the best with every spell you cast.

Notable Bug Fixes

Upcoming MTG Arena Events

Store

  • An additional Rare Card reward has been added to the 45 and 90 Booster Pack bundles in the store for Secrets of Strixhaven!
    • The 45 Pack Bundle will contain 1 Rare individual Card Reward, and the 90 Pack Bundle will include 2.
  • New store offers available with the release of Secrets of Strixhaven:
    • 3 new stickers
    • 6 new phrases
  • Several new Avatars and Card Sleeves featuring Zimone, Rootha, Dina, Killian, and Quintorius.

Game Updates

  • Be prepared! While a creature has a spell prepared, that creature will be indicated by a spellbook graphic on the battlefield. The prepared spell will appear next to the player’s hand, where it can be cast like any other spell.
  • Converge cards now have a converge badge on them that fills up the stack based on the colors of mana spent to cast them.
  • Outside of very rare corner cases, Sylvan Library uses a simplified flow to resolve its trigger. When prompted to put cards back on your library the button will tell you how much life you will lose if you have selected less than two cards.

Bug Fixes

General

  • Fixed an issue where the first pick of the first pack wasn’t reflected within a player’s draft logs. 
  • Fixed an issue where some players were unable to receive new daily quests after a full day.Fixed an issue where players were unable to change Deck Formats within Deck Details.
  • Fixed an issue where Companion VFX weren’t showing up appropriately within Deck Details.
  • Fixed an issue where setting your Default Sleeve wasn’t updating the preview visual within your Deck Box preview.
  • Fixed an issue where players attempting to edit a Brawl deck would see a floating empty Commander slot within the Deck Builder.
  • Players can no longer access the Options menu while a cinematic is playing.
  • Fixed an issue in BO3 where sometimes cards would become invisible when dragging them from your mainboard.
  • Fixed an issue where 16:9 devices weren’t getting the correct layouts for the Emporium.
  • Fixed an issue where 16:9 devices would get squished UI when receiving multiple incoming Challenge Lobby invites.
  • Fixed an issue where players that were disconnected while waiting for all players to Ready weren’t getting the proper error message when attempting to rejoin the event.
  • Fixed an issue where sometimes when re-joining a disconnected match the player would rejoin into a different battlefield.

Gameplay

  • Some face down creatures were showing styled power/toughness pills, giving hints to their opponent as to their identity. We've taught them how to better keep secrets.
  • Fixed an issue with MDFCs and static type changing abilities. Leyline of Transformation + Dracogenesis will now correctly let you cast a Fleem made Dragon for free.
  • Fixed an issue where Niko, Light of Hope's shard tokens that copied something with an end step trigger were triggering despite no longer being a copy at the beginning of the end step.
  • The loop detector was a little overzealous when identifying repeated game actions that should end the game in a draw. Calmed it down a bit.
  • Fixed an issue where the Shoreline Looter's visual aid could misrepresent the number of cards in the player's graveyard.
  • Fixed an issue where cards exiled by Neriv, Crackling Vanguard weren't able to be played in all the cases they should have been.
  • A stolen Omenpath Journey wasn't giving the land to the new controller, that has been fixed.
  • Some styled cards, mostly lands, totally lost card art in the ability selection browser, that art has been found.
  • Players should now return to the same battlefield when reconnecting to a match.
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