In regards to saving the tribal legacy and s100 formats, I shot an email off to wizards.
I find it odd they are trying to phase those two formats out. From a technical standpoint, and obviously I am only speculating here since I don't know the MTGO codebase, I could see a fair bit of development overhead incurred from things like 2HG and emperor since you would have to contemplate scenarios and interactions with every new card added to the game. You would also have to contemplate any UI changes you make to the client since those formats have custom UIs. However, Legacy Tribal and S100 don't do any of that. I don't see how either of the latter two formats would create much , if any, development overhead at all. Seems like a bad move on Wizards part to phase those two out... it's like they are reducing their offerings for little to no gain.
I realize I am posting this a few hours before the event so I understand if no one gets back to me before then.
So I threw together a format-legal deck, uploaded it to Gatherling and registered for the tournament. I guess what I'm a little unclear on is how I know who I will be playing and when.. I see that games will be created and labeled "Heirloom Round __", but how does one know when(or if) to create a game and who they are playing?
In regards to saving the tribal legacy and s100 formats, I shot an email off to wizards.
I find it odd they are trying to phase those two formats out. From a technical standpoint, and obviously I am only speculating here since I don't know the MTGO codebase, I could see a fair bit of development overhead incurred from things like 2HG and emperor since you would have to contemplate scenarios and interactions with every new card added to the game. You would also have to contemplate any UI changes you make to the client since those formats have custom UIs. However, Legacy Tribal and S100 don't do any of that. I don't see how either of the latter two formats would create much , if any, development overhead at all. Seems like a bad move on Wizards part to phase those two out... it's like they are reducing their offerings for little to no gain.
So I threw together a format-legal deck, uploaded it to Gatherling and registered for the tournament. I guess what I'm a little unclear on is how I know who I will be playing and when.. I see that games will be created and labeled "Heirloom Round __", but how does one know when(or if) to create a game and who they are playing?