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Wasn't the 2nd test shard up during the Winter Wonderland thing Draconi did for us?
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Yes, Winter Wonderland was a "fun" shard but had the same test center mechanics, same with the Shard of the Dead for Halloween, but aside from these "fun" playground shards, we have had multiple test shards before, specifically I recall when we had a Siege clone to test publish 38, and 40 I think, and I am pretty sure there have been times they made a clone of another shard as well, in addition to a "fresh" test shard.
-Skylark