Patch 0.19.1: The Lab Bench

The Battle Lab is where you re-run a finished match against the same locked opponent with a different team, purely to test ideas. It used to run a hand-copied, cut-down version of the draft screen that drifted out of sync with the real one. Now it IS the ranked draft picker: the same full-screen theater, the same filter and sort rail, the same card art and hover details. The locked opponent lineup you are building against is back as a collapsible in-page roster so you can check who you are up against without leaving the bench. Anything that improves the ranked picker now improves the Lab automatically.

The Back the Charter pledge window has a left rail that walks you through your pledge (now, this pledge, at close). While it worked out your reward bundle, that rail used to show a plain "calculating" note and then visibly jump as the real rows dropped in. It now shows a quiet placeholder that holds the exact final height from the first frame, so the panel stays put while it loads.

The Open in Lab shortcut had quietly vanished from the match rows on your play history when that list was rebuilt. It is back on every completed match, so you can jump straight from a result into the Lab to try a different team against that same opponent.

Opening a guild-brawl matchup in the Battle Lab used to bounce you back with an affinity error, because brawl matches carry no affinity restriction and the check read that as "no affinity allowed" instead of "any affinity allowed." Brawl matchups now open in the Lab like any other match.