With the release of a scheduled maintenance update earlier today, the ‘Magic: The Gathering - Arena' matchmaking function has been disabled.
‘Magic: The Gathering’ released a scheduled maintenance update at 15:00 UTC on Thursday, 11 November 2021. The scheduled update had a predicted deployment time of roughly 3 hours and required a restart to become functional.
At 17:40 UTC, 11 November 2021, Magic: The Gathering acknowledged the receipt of reports surrounding the disconnection of players mid-game and the termination of games mid-game.
At 17:52 UTC ‘Magic: The Gathering’ shut down the matchmaking function for MTG, informing players that “Matchmaking has been disabled as we continue to investigate the issue. Maintenance is on-going.”
‘Magic: The Gathering has promised to make reparations to the players whose games were disrupted during the unforeseen connection issues with the promise of a grant to all “players who had their draft and sealed events forcefully ended as a part of today's extended maintenance.” as per their Twitter.
The scheduled maintenance brings with it a variety of quality of life improvements, bug fixes, and alterations. Also new is MTG Crimson Vow, with eternal night descending on Innistrad as Olivia Voldaren prepares to marry into a position of “ultimate power over the vampire elite.”
And for the final bit of news, at 23:08 UTC on 11 November 2021, ‘Magic: The Gathering’ announced that the matchmaking issues had been resolved and matchmaking could commence as normal.
