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Burning Tree Emissary actually banned instead of suspended?

When I opened up after the update I got a pop up showing that BTE is now banned, and even got the 4 uncommon wildcards. Did I miss the update to where it was going to bypass the suspended list?

  • Wizards Jay
    Posted 5 years, 5 months ago (Source)

    The wildcards here were a bug. BTE is suspended, not banned. “Bank error in your favor”; enjoy the extra Wildcards.

  • Wizards Jay
    Posted 5 years, 5 months ago (Source)

    Not that i'm not happy for couple extra mythic WC but... did you investigate why some of us got 7 WC for 8 banned cards? Not asking for adding it; just explanation if it's something that could potentially happen next time card is banned. I've received 4 WC for Nexus first time it was banned.

    Yes, we looked into that as well; it’s another “bank error in player’s favor” situation.

    Basically our record of how many WCs we gave out to players for the first Nexus ban were too low (we only recorded that we gave out 1, even if it was more). So when we calculated how many players should get this time, some got to double-dip. Shouldn’t happen again (issue was specific to that old Nexus ban).

  • Wizards Jay
    Posted 5 years, 5 months ago (Source)

    Some people chose not to craft BTE in advance of the suspension, because it was not a ban. When BTE is eventually banned, will those people get a chance to craft the cards and get wildcards at that time? Or did we miss our chance due to this "bank error"?

    This will work the same as Fires or Agent, which were first banned in Standard, then later in Historic: People who got the wildcards before won't get them again if BTE gets fully banned in Historic, and people like yourself that didn't get wildcards in this (mistaken) case will get wildcards for any copies they've collected by that point.

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