Arena Keeps Forcing Me to Pick Andrew Cuomo in Pick-Two Draft

New York, NY - This author was given very real, totally legitimate early access to the new Arena version of the Pick-Two draft format unveiled at MagicCon: Las Vegas, but immediately ran into an issue with the format: No matter what I selected as my first card, the auto-drafter would automatically select former Governor and current mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo.

At first, I assumed this was an error in the code because despite being a monster, Andrew Cuomo is not technically a Magic: the Gathering card. At least yet anyways. But pick after pick, auto-drafter would select him second. By the time the draft was over, I had 14 playable cards, seven pieces of draft chaff, and 21 copies of Andrew Cuomo.

Digging into the prerelease notes, I discovered something from the Arena Devs: they had instituted 'ranked choice' card selection to help the game navigate which cards to select in what order. But, either by mistake or with cheeky intent, the game developers added a single line of code that told the AI to automatically rank Andrew Cuomo as one of the top two picks. Regardless of whether he was in the pack or a card at all.

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