Arena game turn into Friendly mode match

[Rassen]

Anyone facing this issue ? I haven't been able to play for more than a week since all my Arena queue turned into Friendly mode match (and people quit half way)

Submitted as Bug also but no reply at all so far

[JinnMaster]

I am having the same issue and cannot find an answer ANYwhere :-/
Anyone knows what to do??
Please

[donkeykong66]

Looking at your game history it seems neither of you two is actually playing arena games. Instead, you're joining so-called "regular" games with the setting "Even more cards - Included". The even more cards are a whole bunch of new cards that were recently implemented and are still being worked on. These cards being early in development are in their alpha phase, and any alpha game / variant must be played in friendly mode.

If you don't want to play friendly mode, make sure to join games without these "even more cards" included.

[JinnMaster]

Thank you!!

[siverure]

So the arena system doesn't actually have a clear setting on "even more cards" - either included or excluded seem to be allowed when you queue. Just for curiosity's sake i tried to make "excluded" be something i could not join. It took a little bit of time but i did find a game in the arena queue with this setting, it just wasn't an arena game . This seems like a bug and something that should be fixed fairly soon.

PSA: Turn off matching with the setting "Even more cards - included" if you queue arena and don't want to get matched into a friendly game.