



Here’s what you need to know about the current format of the Arena: the old system of “buckets”, cards of roughly similar power levels offered against one another are gone, which means the drafting is once again based around card rarities. Arena in February 2023: Rules and Strategies Discovering high-value cards and repeatedly swinging the board back and forth is the name of the game, and though there are pockets of tempo plays that you can explore and exploit, stocking up on stupidly impactful cards (and drafting Mage as often as you can) is what will get you the furthest. This gave us new winners and new losers in terms of class balancing, and a very different playstyle from what was ideal before. The latest Arena rotation brought along a collection of Standard-legal cards, and with it, a monstrous increase in power level.
