Patch Notes v1.4.0 (4/21/16)

LakeStone
LakeStone Posts: 1,377 Community Moderator
edited May 2016 in MtGPQ General Discussion
Patch Notes 1.4.0!

First Wave of Battle for Zendikar Cards Released!
New Planeswalkers now available. Level Cap Increased to 60.
All-New gameplay mechanics; Void Gems, Rally, Converge, Awaken, Ingest, Process, Devoid, and Landfall.
New Ability Ranks: Each ability now goes up to Rank 4.
New Story Mode Encounters added.
Duplicate cards can now be sold for Mana Runes.
Many additional Improvements and bug fixes.

New Cards
New cards available in the Vault, under the Battle for Zendikar banner.
You can purchase individual packs, Fat Packs, and Booster boxes.
BFZ packs awarded through daily or Quick Battle rewards.
Free boosters now contain both Origin and BFZ cards.
More cards will be added in the coming weeks.

New Planeswalkers
Gideon, Ally of Zendikar and Ob Nixilis Reignited are now purchasable through special offers! More new Planeswalkers arriving in the coming weeks!

New Battle For Zendikar Content
New gameplay mechanics; Void Gems, Rally, Converge, Awaken, Ingest, Process, Devoid, and Landfall.
New Story Mode: Battle for Zendikar - 30 all-new encounters including new Heroic & Legendary difficulties!

New Features
Cards now show subtypes! Now easier to identify which cards are zombies, elves, etc.
New level cap: Planeswalkers can now reach level 60.
New ability ranks: Planeswalker abilities can now reach Rank 4.
You can now sell card duplicates for Mana Runes.

Improvements & Changes
Origins Planeswalker changes - normalized ability costs and rebalanced some abilities. Planeswalker ability costs no longer increase from one rank to another, but instead can decrease to buff a new rank.
New card keywords: Fetch and Discard. Fetch used for cards taken from the deck instead of drawn. Fetch cards do not trigger abilities that trigger when a card is drawn.
Mizzium Meddler: Now drains 1 mana every time you match colored gems.
Embermaw Hellion: Now gives +3/0 to any Red creatures when they attack.
Tainted Remedy: Fixed card text and now correctly places 5 Trap gems.
Plus many additional bug fixes! For complete notes, please visit - https://d3go.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=42864

Comments

  • EDUSAN
    EDUSAN Posts: 197 Tile Toppler
    will the new pw be available to purchase like the old pw?
  • fensti
    fensti Posts: 1
    EDUSAN wrote:
    will the new pw be available to purchase like the old pw?

    For the moment they are a $14.99 purchase (not sure if prices are different out side of US). Both come with a BFZ booster of the matching color as well as 10,000 runes. Also says both are available for the next 7 days and 15 hours.
  • Coppertouret
    Coppertouret Posts: 169 Tile Toppler
    Did card packs change cost without being included in patch notes, or has it just been a long time since I looked at costs?
  • Morphis
    Morphis Posts: 975 Critical Contributor
    I do not see it here and do not know if it has been pointed out elsewhere but they changed the inventory UI.
    Now has many filters and can even show cards you do not own.
    A great addition icon_e_wink.gif



    Can only hope paid pwalkers is a temporary thing to get some money from ppl that are not willing to wait a week....
  • majincob
    majincob Posts: 732 Critical Contributor
    I do not want to scrap my duplicates, but every time I log in it pops up that annoying "take me to the inventory" thing. Also the scrap dupes thing is always at the top of my inventory screen and blocks the names of the top cards.
  • Morphis
    Morphis Posts: 975 Critical Contributor
    majincob wrote:
    I do not want to scrap my duplicates, but every time I log in it pops up that annoying "take me to the inventory" thing. Also the scrap dupes thing is always at the top of my inventory screen and blocks the names of the top cards.
    Yes that annoying message is what got me into the trap XD

    Not that bad though cause leveling to 60 costs A LOT of runes...
    Last levels are like 5k each :O
  • Plastic
    Plastic Posts: 762 Critical Contributor
    Morphis wrote:
    Yes that annoying message is what got me into the trap XD

    Not that bad though cause leveling to 60 costs A LOT of runes...
    Last levels are like 5k each :O
    .

    5k runes is nothing when you have hundreds of thousands to begin with. lol
  • Flaricus
    Flaricus Posts: 102 Tile Toppler
    Servers back up, and thanks for the 5 card booster!! icon_cool.gif
  • LakeStone
    LakeStone Posts: 1,377 Community Moderator
    Flaricus wrote:
    Servers back up, and thanks for the 5 card booster!! icon_cool.gif

    icon_e_biggrin.gif Thank you for playing!
  • Barrelrolla
    Barrelrolla Posts: 289
    Am I the only one disappointed that "Devoid" =/= "Colorless"?

    I play paper magic too and all Eldrazis have Devoid, which means that even though they need some colored mana to cast, they are actually colorless. I really like playing Eldrazi because the have interesting and unique mechanics, great synergy (mostly because they are all colorless) and they are fun to play.

    I was really hyped for the patch, I wanted to make an Eldrazi deck for all my Planeswalkers. I was saving some crystals and immediately bought a Big Box. I opened some cool Eldrazis and immediately made a red Eldrazi deck. I started a game and quickly realized that my deck is not working. Let me give you some examples:

    I have "Herald of Kozilek". In paper magic it says that colorless spells cost 1 less mana. It pretty much says the same in PQ. Well, 1 less mana in paper magic is huge, in PQ it's not a big deal, it's actually nothing, but whatever. In paper magic you can cast any Eldrazi for 1 less mana cost which is huge. But I noticed that my other Eldrazi cards are not getting cheaper. OK, I'm missing something.

    Then I have "Forerunner of Slaughter". In paper magic it says that for 1 mana you can give Haste to any colorless creature. In PQ it's pretty much the same, when a colorless creature enters it gains Haste. Well, I had it on the battlefield and then I casted another Eldrazi, but it did not gain haste. ****?

    Then I have my favorite red Eldrazi card "Vile Aggregate". In paper magic it's power is equal to the number of colorless creatures you control. In PQ it does pretty much the same, but it's +3 per creature instead of +1, because you can only have 2 other creatures on the battlefield. But when I summoned it and I had the previous two on the battlefield it was still 0/5.

    Then I realized that Devoid isn't Colorless. So Eldrazis in PQ have absolutely zero synergy, which is annoying. If you want to build a deck around "Vile Aggregate" all other creatures you can use should be colorless, you cannot use other red Eldrazi. The best thing about Eldrazi is that they do not care about color, they are pretty much a sixth color in Magic and that is not represented in PQ in anyway.

    Not to mention that the Void mana crystals don't give bonus mana, so there is no reason for me to aim for them instead of red or even black/green crystals, but that's another topic and it's not such a big deal. But Eldrazi cards are very expensive (mana cost) and I though that the reason for that is their synergy, which is obviously not the case.
  • majincob
    majincob Posts: 732 Critical Contributor
    Barrelrolla wrote:
    Am I the only one disappointed that "Devoid" =/= "Colorless"?

    Seriously, big flavor fail.
  • EDUSAN
    EDUSAN Posts: 197 Tile Toppler
    yes

    these cards are too hard to make work for me. I may have been unlucky and got bad cards from my FP/BB that i bought but i think my "easy-to-play" origin decks are way better. And now they are even better with the bonus mana from same color gem match

    I added 1 card from BFZ in my red card which im not sure it will stay and 1 card to my green deck...and thats it
  • JVReal
    JVReal Posts: 1,884 Chairperson of the Boards
    majincob wrote:
    I do not want to scrap my duplicates, but every time I log in it pops up that annoying "take me to the inventory" thing. Also the scrap dupes thing is always at the top of my inventory screen and blocks the names of the top cards.
    Yes, this is bothersome. I don't want to get rid of my dupes for runes. I want to hold them in hopes that they develop a real purpose for the extras rather than runes. So I don't want to be sent to my Inventory every time I open the app.

    I also would like to see my entire inventory without the stupid green button covering the top 2 creatures on every page. I tried to swipe it up like you can messages on iPhone, but nope, it just stays there being obnoxious.
  • BassMuffinFIve
    BassMuffinFIve Posts: 231
    Hate to be a negative Nancy, but these new void/ingest/whatever mechanics are a bit fail. Waaaaaay too much text for things that end up being clunky and frankly, just not that good. I have yet to see a card whose mechanics make you want to use the card over any other card of the same cost, and I have skimmed the whole set.

    Landfall was very well done. Rally is a bit weak and hampered by the 3 creature limit. Awaken is OK at best, and also plagued by the 3 creature limit. Converge stuff is over-costed and clunky. Ingest and void are the worst offenders. They do so so little that I actually feel punished for having read through the whole card.

    My overall feel from the set is: "A lot of reading of card's text for cards that you won't really ever want to use."
  • Meto5000
    Meto5000 Posts: 583
    BassMuffinFIve wrote:
    Rally is a bit weak and hampered by the 3 creature limit.

    Rally still triggers when you reinforce a Rally creature so it's not a huge deal. I imagine a good Rally deck will have 4-6 creatures, most of them being Rally creatures, and the rest are things like kill and buff spells.
  • tonric
    tonric Posts: 4
    In response to all the negativity, I think that mostly this is a great release. You guys have been super proactive with your communication and it is super appreciated! Love the game more now than I did two days ago. Way to go!
  • BassMuffinFIve
    BassMuffinFIve Posts: 231
    tonric wrote:
    In response to all the negativity, I think that mostly this is a great release. You guys have been super proactive with your communication and it is super appreciated! Love the game more now than I did two days ago. Way to go!

    I want to reiterate after my last post that this is an amazing patch/update/FREE expansion! Very much love everything the devs have done!! However, I do feel like there is so much content that the whole eldrazi/ingest/process stuff could have basically been a whole new expansion to themselves.

    Keep up the great work and keep listening ;P
  • alextfish
    alextfish Posts: 192
    Well, it doesn't help that rally and processor are both "critical mass" mechanics: you wouldn't put a Rally card in a deck until you have enough playable Ally cards in that one colour, and you wouldn't put a Processor in a deck until you have enough playable Ingest cards in that one colour.

    So the first several Fat Packs' worth of cards you open, you can basically discount anything that mentions Rally or Processor because you won't have critical mass. Even once you do have, say, 3 black Ingesters, you have the problem that the common ones are appallingly overcosted. (12 mana for "destroy target creature with power 3 or less, Ingest 1", where simply "destroy target creature with power 3 or less" is 3 mana. What the...?)
  • Morphis
    Morphis Posts: 975 Critical Contributor
    alextfish wrote:
    Well, it doesn't help that rally and processor are both "critical mass" mechanics: you wouldn't put a Rally card in a deck until you have enough playable Ally cards in that one colour, and you wouldn't put a Processor in a deck until you have enough playable Ingest cards in that one colour.

    So the first several Fat Packs' worth of cards you open, you can basically discount anything that mentions Rally or Processor because you won't have critical mass. Even once you do have, say, 3 black Ingesters, you have the problem that the common ones are appallingly overcosted. (12 mana for "destroy target creature with power 3 or less, Ingest 1", where simply "destroy target creature with power 3 or less" is 3 mana. What the...?)
    Yes ingest/process definitely needs many themed card to even be playable and as pointed out common ones are very weak.
    Rally has the same problem but some rally effects are so good that even in non rally decks are going to work fine.

    About the new 12 mana kill ingest you are wrong. IT DOES NOT require 3 or less attack so it is more like cruel revival with no zombie benefit/restriction.
    Being a colorless spell it can help giving removal to green and white decks If you have not smite the monstrous yet.
  • alextfish
    alextfish Posts: 192
    Morphis wrote:
    alextfish wrote:
    Well, it doesn't help that rally and processor are both "critical mass" mechanics: you wouldn't put a Rally card in a deck until you have enough playable Ally cards in that one colour, and you wouldn't put a Processor in a deck until you have enough playable Ingest cards in that one colour.

    So the first several Fat Packs' worth of cards you open, you can basically discount anything that mentions Rally or Processor because you won't have critical mass. Even once you do have, say, 3 black Ingesters, you have the problem that the common ones are appallingly overcosted. (12 mana for "destroy target creature with power 3 or less, Ingest 1", where simply "destroy target creature with power 3 or less" is 3 mana. What the...?)
    Yes ingest/process definitely needs many themed card to even be playable and as pointed out common ones are very weak.
    Rally has the same problem but some rally effects are so good that even in non rally decks are going to work fine.

    About the new 12 mana kill ingest you are wrong. IT DOES NOT require 3 or less attack so it is more like cruel revival with no zombie benefit/restriction.
    Being a colorless spell it can help giving removal to green and white decks If you have not smite the monstrous yet.
    What? No, I'm not talking about Scour from Existence - that card is indeed awesome, and went straight into all 5 of my decks.

    I'm talking about Complete Disregard. It's a Devoid Spell from BFZ, common, black, with cost 12 mana and text "Destroy target creature with Power of 3 or less and Ingest 1." Compare with Reave Soul from Origins, common, black, cost 3 mana, text "Destroy a creature with a power of 3 or less." Exact same effect (the absence of the word "target" doesn't mean anything in MTGPQ, and nor does the capital/lowercase "P" - they're just bad at templating). Difference in cost: 9 mana. For a net gain of Ingest 1. Like I said, unplayable.

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