Saheeli Rai - Availability

Monkeynutts
Monkeynutts Posts: 566 Critical Contributor
edited March 2017 in MtGPQ General Discussion
Why has D3 not put Saheeli Rai into the vault for purchase?

Even Nissa Vital Force is on the list now.
She's the only PW I don't have and it's annoying. Every time it rotates she's not there.

Has she been withdrawn from future sale or is it just wait n see?
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  • James13
    James13 Posts: 665 Critical Contributor
    I'm fairly certain she's going to be available for purchase with money before entering the vault.
  • wereotter
    wereotter Posts: 2,070 Chairperson of the Boards
    Last I know of was a notice she's going to be available for purchase with crystals in "early 2017"

    But I'm with you. I watch every Thursday hoping that weekly update will bring her to the store.
  • Monkeynutts
    Monkeynutts Posts: 566 Critical Contributor
    Even Nissa 2 is on the block....
  • octal9
    octal9 Posts: 593 Critical Contributor
    she'll be cash before crystals.
  • Monkeynutts
    Monkeynutts Posts: 566 Critical Contributor
    not so sure. Tezzeret needs to come out and i hate if they waste time with Saheeli Rai.
  • AngelForge
    AngelForge Posts: 325 Mover and Shaker
    I heard she was a reward in an event. So, I guess there are not a lot of players who own her. Furthermore, they even put effort into a remake for Kaladesh. It's about time that she is offered in the vault.

    And I don't think that her release would impact the release of others. They could release both in one week if they want to....
  • octal9
    octal9 Posts: 593 Critical Contributor
    She'll be cash before crystals.
  • LakeStone
    LakeStone Posts: 1,377 Community Moderator
    Monkeynutts wrote:
    Why has D3 not put Saheeli Rai into the vault for purchase?

    Even Nissa Vital Force is on the list now.
    She's the only PW I don't have and it's annoying. Every time it rotates she's not there.

    Has she been withdrawn from future sale or is it just wait n see?

    Saheeli Rai was a reward for an event last year that gave players that participated the ability to be the first have her on their roster. We plan to release this awesome Planeswalker to everyone sometime in the future and will announce the details once we have confirmation on the dates this will happen. Thank you for the interest and questions regarding her release.
  • Astralwind
    Astralwind Posts: 98 Match Maker
    All these hypes for Saheeli is only going to raise her price when she's released. So let's do ourselves a favor by pretending that we don't care about her release anymore.
  • Mainloop25
    Mainloop25 Posts: 1,961 Chairperson of the Boards
    LakeStone wrote:
    Monkeynutts wrote:
    Why has D3 not put Saheeli Rai into the vault for purchase?

    Even Nissa Vital Force is on the list now.
    She's the only PW I don't have and it's annoying. Every time it rotates she's not there.

    Has she been withdrawn from future sale or is it just wait n see?

    Saheeli Rai was a reward for an event last year that gave players that participated the ability to be the first have her on their roster. We plan to release this awesome Planeswalker to everyone sometime in the future and will announce the details once we have confirmation on the dates this will happen. Thank you for the interest and questions regarding her release.

    "early 2017" has now become "sometime in the future"
  • Springs
    Springs Posts: 29 Just Dropped In
    So the last event seems to be that you only got the win in 5 turns or less objective if you had Saheeli. So the players with an advantage already from having this PW got an advantage in the current event. ....Way to cater to the 1%. The moderators preach of making the events fair and fun. What's fun about loosing out on placement due to not having a planeswalker. An equal playing field would be nice. I'm all about rewarding top finishers with mythics early, but handicapping 99% of people by offering pw that give an advantage in future events, doesn't seem right.

    There are a lot of requests to see a YouTube video of the moderator who stated the win in 5 turns is achievable with blue, I'll take that a step further and say show it to us without using Saheeli
  • PastrySpider
    PastrySpider Posts: 127 Tile Toppler
    I can confirm that it is possible with Kiora to get the blue win in 5 rounds with all energy. Basic approach is to trigger green cascades using prism array to keep feeding in cards and then summon something huge and constantly reinforce it. The approach certainly isn't perfect (missed the objective more than half the time) but the deck still needs refining. I actually had better luck with this approach than with using Saheeli but I'm missing a lot of the red haste mythics (olivia and firebird).'

    This is not say the blue objective is good, just to say its possible without Saheeli.
  • Fiddler
    Fiddler Posts: 251 Mover and Shaker
    LakeStone wrote:
    Monkeynutts wrote:
    Why has D3 not put Saheeli Rai into the vault for purchase?

    Even Nissa Vital Force is on the list now.
    She's the only PW I don't have and it's annoying. Every time it rotates she's not there.

    Has she been withdrawn from future sale or is it just wait n see?

    Saheeli Rai was a reward for an event last year that gave players that participated the ability to be the first have her on their roster. We plan to release this awesome Planeswalker to everyone sometime in the future and will announce the details once we have confirmation on the dates this will happen. Thank you for the interest and questions regarding her release.

    To add a bit more perspective: Saheeli Rai, as an event reward, was over five months ago.
  • Monkeynutts
    Monkeynutts Posts: 566 Critical Contributor
    Yes she was an event reward. You had to finish practically at the top to get her.....amongst the cheaters woth their perfect scores... give me a break.

    Release her already. Stop punishing the ones who play without cheating.
  • James13
    James13 Posts: 665 Critical Contributor
    Was cheating a thing back then? I ask because I lost I think 6 or 7 matches (Primarily app crashes; full points the rest) on the first iteration of the event and scored her anyway... Silver tier at the time.

    On the subsequent replays I intentionally had to throw matches at the end to avoid "stealing" her from others.
  • octal9
    octal9 Posts: 593 Critical Contributor
    James13 wrote:
    Was cheating a thing back then?
    No. The previous poster is just incorrect.
  • PastrySpider
    PastrySpider Posts: 127 Tile Toppler
    There certainly weren't reports of cheating back then and I was one of those who did manage to get her and it wasn't with a perfect score. The big issue back in those days was crashing during play and losing nodes.
  • madwren
    madwren Posts: 2,260 Chairperson of the Boards
    Judging from the "Saheeli Rai's Challenge" that has appeared in the upcoming events, I suspect she'll be for sale on Thursday.
  • Monkeynutts
    Monkeynutts Posts: 566 Critical Contributor
    We'll see Thursday when they rotate.

    And there a few threads about cheater around. Some have great info and insight., but D3 do not do anything
  • Nitymp
    Nitymp Posts: 320 Mover and Shaker
    Monkeynutts wrote:
    We'll see Thursday when they rotate.

    And there a few threads about cheater around. Some have great info and insight., but D3 do not do anything

    Actually, I have to say in their defence (for once) that there have been a number of 'high profile' cheaters that have been banned, with another ban wave imminent too (or so I hear).

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