Wizards of the Coast (WotC) has released their weekly update article for MTG Arena, highlighting Alchemy rebalances, The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth preorder bundles, and more.
Alchemy Rebalances
Two cards are being rebalanced for Alchemy today. Kumano Faces Kakkazan and Traumatic Prank are both being nerfed slightly to reduce the power of Mono-Red Aggro.
Etching of Kumano is losing haste while Traumatic Prank is going up to four mana from three.
The Lord Of The Rings: Tales Of Middle-earth Bundle Preorders Go Live Today
Four different preorder bundles for The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth go live in the MTG Arena store today.
The Aragorn Pack Bundle costs $49.99 and includes:
- 50x LTR packs
- 5x Golden Packs
- Aragorn depth art card style
- Aragorn card card
- Aragorn sleeve
The Gandalf Pass Bundle costs $14.99 and includes:
- Gandalf sleeve
- LTR Mastery Pass
- Gandalf depth art card style
- Gandalf card
The One Ring Bundle costs 3,000 gems or 15,000 gold and includes:
- The One Ring pet
- Sauron, the Lidless Eye sleeve
The Play Bundle costs $24.99 and includes:
- Burst Lightning sleeve
- 2x Player Draft tokens
- 1x Sealed token
- 5x Play-In Points
Event Schedule
Midweek Magic
- May 30—June 1: Innistrad: Midnight Hunt Phantom Sealed
- June 6–8: Historic Pauper
- June 13–15: Momir
- June 20–22: Starter Deck Test Drive
- June 27–29: The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth Phantom Sealed
Quick Draft
- May 26–June 6: March of the Machine
- June 9–16: The Brothers’ War
- June 16–29: Phyrexia: All Will Be One
Other Events
- May 26—June 3: Innistrad: Midnight Hunt Premier Draft
- June 2—5: Treasured Festival: Historic Singleton
- June 3—11: Innistrad: Crimson Vow Premier Draft
- June 12–20: Chromatic Cube
Premier Play
June
- Qualifier Play-In (Best-of-One)
- June 3, 6 AM PT
- Format: Historic
- Qualifier Play-In (Best-of-Three)
- June 9, 6 AM PT—June 10, 3 a.m. PT
- Format: Historic
- Qualifier Weekend
- June 10, 6 AM PT—June 11, 4 p.m. PT
- Format: Historic (Best-of-Three)
Arena Open
- Format: The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth Limited
- July 1-3
- Day One, The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth Sealed (Best-of-One and Best-of-Three)
- Day Two, The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth Player Draft (Best-of-Three)There are two Player Draft events on Day Two
- July 1-3
May 2023 Ranked Season Rewards
The May 2023 Ranked Season begins April 30 at 12:05 PM PT and ends on May 31 at 12 PM PT (UTC-07:00)
- Bronze Reward: 1 March of the Machine pack
- Silver Reward: 1 March of the Machine pack + 500 gold
- Gold Reward: 2 March of the Machine packs + 1,000 gold + Change the Equation card style
- Platinum Reward: 3 March of the Machine packs + 1,000 gold + Change the Equation card style + Nahiri’s Warcrafting card style
- Diamond Reward: 4 March of the Machine packs + 1,000 gold + Change the Equation card style card style + Nahiri’s Warcrafting card style
- Mythic Reward: 5 March of the Machine packs + 1,000 gold + Change the Equation card style + Nahiri’s Warcrafting card style
Read the original article from WotC.