New draft help, deck tracking improvements, platform releases and fixes for the Hyde MTG Arena companion.
v0.4.6
feat: reliable gameplay state, zones and public companion signals (#17)
Track current zones and public events; retain honest coverage, strict privacy and signed catalog compatibility. Verified SPEC, quality, 23 local gates and controlled recorded native QA.
v0.4.5
Draft overlays that fit horizontal and vertical views
Added separate badge grids for horizontal (deck below) and vertical (deck right) Arena draft layouts, using measured card positions.
On macOS, Auto reads Arena's local layout preference without screen capture. Choose Deck below or Deck right when the preference is unavailable.
Saved badge alignment is separate for each view, window size and display scale. Existing vertical alignments are preserved.
Resizing the companion keeps it inside the monitor work area, and compact header controls remain accessible. The mini recommendation and title-bar collapse remain separate controls.
Changing layouts during alignment safely cancels unsaved anchors rather than mixing profiles. Card ratings and signed data snapshots are unchanged.
Verified with 350 Rust tests, 13 frontend gates, independent SPEC and quality reviews, and WebKit browser checks. A new live Arena session has not yet been validated; Windows and Linux remain beta pending live runtime validation.
This overlay fix requires an app update.
v0.4.4
More reliable offline deck suggestions and replayable drafts
Draft build suggestions now use card rules already included with the downloaded ratings when the local rules cache is empty.
Basic lands and other cards outside the rating list retain their identity from Arena's locally installed card data. Card ratings are unchanged.
The browser simulator now accepts seed zero and rejects malformed or oversized seeds instead of silently starting a different draft. Previously accepted positive seeds keep their draft sequences.
Added private recorded-log regression checks covering draft recommendations, a 40-card suggested deck, game deck tracking, correct match attribution, saved-result readback and duplicate rejection. The checks leave the user's original history untouched.
Verified with a recorded 42-pick journey and separate complete 45-pick browser practice drafts, not a new live Arena session. Live log tailing and native window placement remain outside this headless check; Windows and Linux packages remain beta pending live Arena validation.
The offline draft-build improvements require an app update. The browser seed fix is already available online.
v0.4.3
Fix desktop practice-draft catalog mismatch
Fixed desktop practice drafts rejecting valid signed card ratings with a catalog identity mismatch. Limited ratings now work across their supported draft queues without requiring the catalog label to equal the queue name.
Preserved rejection of wrong-set, incompatible-format and changed-revision catalogs, with new native start-and-pick regression coverage for Reality Fracture and The Hobbit.
This is an application bug fix and requires updating Hyde. The existing Reality Fracture rating refresh remains a separate data update; no card ratings or signed data snapshots are changed by this fix.
ratings-fra-2026-10-18
Reality Fracture rating refresh
Reviewed all 280 Reality Fracture cards and updated 260 card-strength ratings, including corrected immediate play lines and more consistent land-cycle ratings.
The desktop companion, browser simulator and tier list share the updated ratings. Existing v0.4.2 desktop clients can load this signed rating update without an app download.
Drafts already in progress keep their previous ratings. New drafts use the update after refresh; offline clients retain their last downloaded ratings.
These are source-informed editorial judgments, not proven win-rate predictions. Existing archetype and drafted-pool fit profiles are unchanged.
v0.4.2
feat: signed remote catalogs and reviewed FRA ratings (#7)
Reviewed release tree verified by SPEC and independent code-quality gates; authenticated set/rating updates, pinned drafts, signed cache and fallback snapshots.
v0.4.1
Reality Fracture card display fixes
Restored Reality Fracture card names, mana costs and artwork in the deck tracker instead of bare numeric labels.
Read Arena's installed card metadata locally before optional network lookups; corrected mana values and land classification.
Matched artwork to the same card printing and rejected unapproved image hosts.
Connected existing reviewed ratings to verified Arena card identities without changing the rating methodology or card scores.
Verified with the reported card IDs and real artwork in a controlled source replay, not a new live Arena match. Desktop downloads remain beta; Windows and Linux await live Arena runtime validation.
v0.4.0
Better draft guidance, new tier lists and a new Hyde identity
Added reviewed Reality Fracture and The Hobbit card ratings for Draft and Sealed, with public game results shown separately when available.
Added searchable, card-first Limited tier lists and expanded the free browser simulator with complete 45-pick practice drafts.
Improved pool-aware pick explanations, post-draft builds and fail-closed consistency between the desktop companion and browser simulator.
Introduced Hyde's black-cat shield across the website, desktop companion and native application icons.
Rewrote the public site around player outcomes, clearer privacy boundaries and current set coverage. Card recommendations remain beta guidance and are not presented as independently expert-validated.
v0.3.4
Maintenance release 0.3.4
Updated the public beta build and release packages.
v0.3.3
Maintenance release 0.3.3
Updated the public beta build and release packages.
v0.3.2
Correct mana costs in active deck rows
Backfilled full mana-payment metadata for active deck rows so costs such as {2}{R} no longer collapse to color identity.
v0.3.1
More reliable pack detection across draft modes
Hyde now resolves each logged pack independently, handles more draft formats, and gives more reliable multicolour and final-deck recommendations.
v0.3.0
LCI ratings and mechanic-aware draft coaching
Correction after source-policy review: 285 Lost Caverns of Ixalan cards retain ratings from 823,614 public 17Lands games; low-sample cards use the native rarity fallback without third-party card-level data.
Labelled LCI's Nov–Dec 2023 PremierDraft snapshot as historical data, not live results. The native PremierDraft snapshot works offline.
Added pool-aware guidance for artifacts, descend, explore and Maps, craft, Pirates, Dinosaurs, Caves, sacrifice themes and discover.
Kept rating sources visible through practice drafts and final deck summaries, with the same mechanic explanations in the browser and desktop overlay.
Craft/discover assessments describe drafted support, not guaranteed game-state outcomes. Final deck construction remains a generic color/curve/role optimizer, not an exhaustive LCI combo solver.
macOS Apple Silicon, Windows x64, and Linux x64 packages are built by native CI runners. Windows/Linux remain beta and were not live-Arena tested for this release. macOS is not Apple-notarized; follow the documented first-launch instructions.
v0.2.7
Maintenance release 0.2.7
Updated the public beta build and release packages.
v0.2.6
Deck-build guidance and overlay polish
Post-draft deck builds now show card-rating totals and averages, deck health, archetype guidance, curve warnings, mana costs and card art.
Curve-aware selection combines with approved 17Lands evidence to improve draft recommendations.
The tray can reopen a retained draft build, while deck summaries stay opaque and content-fitted.
Card previews remain above the draft badge layer instead of badges painting over preview cards.
v0.2.5
Collapsed deck panel no longer blocks clicks
The collapsed deck panel now stays out of the way while you play.
v0.2.4
Reversible draft details and verdict-first recommendations
Expanded draft details now have a visible Collapse control.
The compact strip surfaces Clear pick, Close pick, or Preferred pick before secondary detail.
v0.2.3
Decision-first draft overlay and measured badge details
The compact draft panel leads with one recommendation, then shows a focused ranking and explanation.
Draft badges use measured Arena-relative placement, clamped detail popups, stable hover feedback, and stale clearing between packs.
Stable platform download aliases are refreshed after signed builds succeed.
v0.2.2
Opaque companion panels and version visibility
The tray Show Overlay action reliably brings the companion back into view.
Dashboard and draft panels now use opaque surfaces for readable content over Arena.
The running app version is visible in the dashboard, with SOS native draft coaching and suggested deck logging covered by desktop tests.
v0.2.1
Draft power and suggested decks
SOS draft coaching uses the native model and rarity fallback when approved empirical evidence is unavailable.
Base card ratings remain separate from recommendations for your current pool.
Post-draft suggested decks are rendered as full decklists.
v0.2.0
Signed automatic updates
Hyde can receive signed automatic updates for stable releases.
The release pipeline publishes updater manifests and platform artifacts to the stable download aliases.
v0.1.0-beta.4
Dashboard views, dedicated draft simulator, and in-game draw log
The Companion dashboard gained separate Overview, Match history, My decks, Rank progress, and Draft simulator views.
The draft simulator became a dedicated view with an Abandon-draft control and live overlay mirroring.
Recent draws now show the full per-game history, including the opening hand and every draw.
v0.1.0-beta.3
Platform downloads and native tray icon
Free beta builds became available for Apple Silicon macOS, Windows x64, and Linux x64.
The release added a native NSIS installer for Windows and an AppImage for Linux.
The landing page gained platform-specific download instructions.
v0.1.0-beta.2
Accurate card data and card frames
17Lands cards now join to Scryfall metadata by card name, restoring mana cost, CMC, colours, type, rarity, set, and image data without overwriting richer local data.
Deck and draft rows gained real mana glyphs, colour rails, and rare/mythic frame cues.
Detailed Logs setup was documented for every platform.
v0.1.0-beta.1
First public beta: draft simulator and live overlay
Practice full drafts from the Companion with seeded packs, power shields, and per-pick coaching.
The live overlay provided pack rankings with reasons, land-drop odds, pick recaps, and deck summaries.
The beta was local-first: it read Arena's Player.log read-only, required no account, and uploaded nothing.
