Changelog

What's new in v0.2.24

• Draft Stats mana curve matches Arena. The mana-value buckets are now 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6+ — the old combined "0–1" bucket is split into separate 0 and 1 columns, and 6 and 7+ are merged into a single 6+ column, matching MTG Arena's default grouping.
• Deck Build ordering refined. Within each mana value, cards now break ties by their number of colored pips before falling back to alphabetical order — e.g. a card costing 3U sorts before one costing 2UU.

What's new

• Deck Build now groups 6+ together. Cards with mana value 6 or higher are grouped under a single "Mana Value 6+" heading, matching MTG Arena's default deck view.
• Faster update checks. Draft Sense now checks for a new version the moment it launches (previously it waited 30 seconds), so an available update can finish downloading and be ready to install before you start your next draft.

Changed

• Deck Build screen now labels each card group by Mana Value instead of CMC, matching current Magic: The Gathering terminology.

Live draft stats. The Draft Stats panel — colors, curve, creatures, removal — now updates the instant you confirm a pick, instead of waiting for the next pack to appear. Your pool reads true the moment you lock a card in.

Set name on hover. Hover the set code in the header to see the set's full name (e.g. "Secrets of Strixhaven").

Cleaner deck view. Removed the "Rebuild Deck" button — the deck builder is deterministic, so rebuilding always produced the same deck. One less thing in the way.

Sideboard suggestions removed. After a draft, the deck builder used to show a short note under each sideboard card — "Bring in vs spell-heavy decks," "Off-color," and the like. Those were rule-of-thumb heuristics, not output from the draft model, so we've taken them out rather than present guidance the model didn't actually make.

Your sideboard still lists every card that didn't make the main deck — just without the invented swap advice. Doing sideboard guidance properly, backed by the model, is on the roadmap.

Fixed

• Mana curve now shows the correct mana values. The draft mana-curve graph was labeling each spell one mana value too low — a display-only issue, so your pick recommendations and card data were always correct. The curve now reads accurately.

🐛 Fixes

• More reliable "Report a problem" — sending a bug report no longer fails on the first try when the service is waking up. The request now waits a little longer and automatically retries once on a fresh connection, so reports go through.

✨ New

• Report a problem — a new button in the overlay header opens a quick form to send us a bug report, with a recent diagnostic log optionally attached. If you're signed out or offline, it falls back to opening your email client so a report never gets lost.

🐛 Fixes

• No more silently-missed first pick — if the recommendation service was still waking up, the very first pick of a draft could hang with no recommendation and no error. Requests now time out and automatically retry on a fresh connection, and the service is warmed up a moment before your first pick lands.

🔧 Under the hood

• Per-pick diagnostics now record each recommendation request/response (and any timeout or retry), so a missed pick is easy to trace in draft-sense.log.

✨ New

• Diagnostic log — Draft Sense now keeps a rotating local log (draft-sense.log) of what the Arena watcher sees and what the overlay does on every pick. It records gameplay data only — never your sign-in token or account details — so it's safe to attach to a bug report. Open its folder any time with Ctrl+Shift+L.

🐛 Fixes

• Quick Draft tracking — fixed an empty draft id in Quick Draft (when the draft scene appeared before the first status update) that was causing draft-event uploads to be rejected.

No more dropped picks at draft start. When you open a new draft in Arena, the overlay now warms up the backend in advance so packs 1–2 don't race the model-load. Eliminates the "waiting for pack" symptom on cold-started servers.

Pick-Two bug fix. When the last pair of a Pick-Two pack was a non-basic + a basic land, the basic wasn't showing up in the overlay. Now both cards render.

Backend: 15 sets' per-set artifacts re-published with cleaner ingest filters (the "Burst Lightning shows as CMC 0" class of bug is fixed).

Alpha-tester program. New /alpha page; apply from the account page. Accepted testers get unlimited free recommendations.

Discord button in the overlay header. One-click hop to the community for bug reports / draft talk.

Header layout cleanup. Tighter spacing, removed the zero-shot indicator pill.

Moved to draft-sense.com. The product now has its own domain (previously a sub-path of mentalisai.com). Existing installs auto-update; no action needed.

Signed installer. The Windows installer is now signed via Azure Trusted Signing — the publisher verifies as "Joshua Brehm." The install page walks through verifying the signature and getting past Windows' SmartScreen warning.

Auto-update. The overlay checks for new releases on quit and updates silently before its next launch.