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The Formats Contest vote is now open! Over the past few weeks, four community teams have put together complete format proposals to replace the temporary Standard All Uniques on BGA. Each one takes a different approach to the same challenge: making uniques accessible to everyone — no digital ownersh...

Great feedback — we'll definitely remove the "This option is recommended only for beginners on their first game" disclaimer, as it does send the wrong message. As for the name, we're open to changing it too, but "Pre-constructed" might not be the most intuitive term for everyone ...

Dear community, Last night, we had an incident with the decks database. Here is what happened and what has been done. What happened An error caused test fixtures to be accidentally run on the production environment, wiping the decks database. A rollback was performed to a backup from approximately 3...

Hello Jontia! Glad to hear you're happy with the result! We've launched 27 new starter decks to help you try out each hero — you should find them on BGA whenever you start a game in any Standard Format. There is also a beginner mode that will only match you against these decks if you'd like a more c...

Hello, You might have noticed you can't link your altered.gg account to BGA anymore. If you want to see custom decks you are going to need to create a Re:Union account on https://altered.re/ and link it to BGA . Then you can either import your decks from altered.gg to the new deckbuilders from the c...

Hello, You might have noticed new formats available on BGA today (20th of May 2026). You can find all the details in this article from Re:Union . If you want to see custom decks you are going to need to create a Re:Union account on https://altered.re/ and link it to BGA . Then you can either import ...