Standard deck slot

Gormhaus
Gormhaus Posts: 190 Tile Toppler
in MtGPQ General Discussion
Why do we have deck slots for basic and master decks but no event associated with those decks BUT no deck slot for standard?

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  • Dologan
    Dologan Posts: 145 Tile Toppler
    Especially given how utterly useless those decks are. Does the person who designed them play the game AT ALL? Was it even a person or were they made from the laughable auto deck builder (it might explain things)?

    I would love to have any of the D3/Hibernum employees enter an event using a full Master deck and see how well they do... How about anyone who beats their score gets some unobtanium prize? That'd be fun.

    Anyway, what happened to all entries from those deck building competitions?
  • Laeuftbeidir
    Laeuftbeidir Posts: 1,841 Chairperson of the Boards
    -there are up to three deck slots you can use however you want
    -all these decks (apart from ajani 2 and the amk walkers) were designed and voted for by the community, and are the result of that competition as far as I know.

    Apart from that, I agree totally that the decks are mostly useless.
  • ElimGarak
    ElimGarak Posts: 85 Match Maker
    They could be of use, if we were to edit them, once completed. Of course this will not happen.

  • HomeRn
    HomeRn Posts: 330 Mover and Shaker
    The Beginner, Expert, and Master decks are "theme decks" that were designed by the community as part of a competition.  One thing to note that these "theme decks" have a major constraint to them: they are limited to a SINGLE block of cards - even more restrictive than Standard which includes Origins and 2 other blocks of cards currently!
  • shteev
    shteev Posts: 2,031 Chairperson of the Boards
    Dologan said:
    Especially given how utterly useless those decks are. Does the person who designed them play the game AT ALL? Was it even a person or were they made from the laughable auto deck builder (it might explain things)?

    I would love to have any of the D3/Hibernum employees enter an event using a full Master deck and see how well they do... How about anyone who beats their score gets some unobtanium prize? That'd be fun.

    Anyway, what happened to all entries from those deck building competitions?
    I think the decks in the game ARE the decks from the deckbuilding competition, aren't they? They told us that they'd credit the designers in game, which is literally the only reason I entered, but then they didn't bother. They've got our content, and we all signed the small print, so bollocks to us, right?

    The decks are useless in all formats currently available in-game because of the deckbuilding restrictions laid upon us.
  • madwren
    madwren Posts: 2,259 Chairperson of the Boards
    They supposedly are supposed to inspire people to complete the decks by acquiring cards, which is pretty hilarious.
  • Steeme
    Steeme Posts: 784 Critical Contributor
    madwren said:
    They supposedly are supposed to inspire people to complete the decks by acquiring cards, which is pretty hilarious.

    Yeah they kinda dropped the ball on this one.  Once you complete the deck it should open up so you can use it however you like.
  • khurram
    khurram Posts: 1,090 Chairperson of the Boards
    shteev said:
    Dologan said: 
    Especially given how utterly useless those decks are. Does the person who designed them play the game AT ALL? Was it even a person or were they made from the laughable auto deck builder (it might explain things)?

    I would love to have any of the D3/Hibernum employees enter an event using a full Master deck and see how well they do... How about anyone who beats their score gets some unobtanium prize? That'd be fun.

    Anyway, what happened to all entries from those deck building competitions?
    I think the decks in the game ARE the decks from the deckbuilding competition, aren't they? They told us that they'd credit the designers in game, which is literally the only reason I entered, but then they didn't bother. They've got our content, and we all signed the small print, so bollocks to us, right?

    The decks are useless in all formats currently available in-game because of the deckbuilding restrictions laid upon us.
    I don't think the current expert and master decks are those submitted by the players?
  • shteev
    shteev Posts: 2,031 Chairperson of the Boards
    Steeme said:
    madwren said:
    They supposedly are supposed to inspire people to complete the decks by acquiring cards, which is pretty hilarious.

    Yeah they kinda dropped the ball on this one.  Once you complete the deck it should open up so you can use it however you like.
    It's kinda ludicrous that for most planeswalkers that everyone owns, the precon decks take up 3 times as much space as your actual decks (because let's face it, we've all figured out now that buying extra deck slots is worth it in very few circumstances), and they push your own decks off the bottom of the screen so you can't read their names.

    There's no format in which they are useful. All they do now is clutter up the UI.
  • Furks
    Furks Posts: 149 Tile Toppler
    @Brigby yep, pretty much. I would also say that by default every planeswalker should have a standard and a non-standard deck slot
  • Laeuftbeidir
    Laeuftbeidir Posts: 1,841 Chairperson of the Boards
    Brigby said:
    Based on several threads, including this thread and this POLL, the general forum-community consensus so far is that deck slots are useful but too expensive, and the theme decks from the forum deck competition are not helpful. 

    Would that be a correct analysis?
    *for advanced players. Never heard the opinion of someone new to the game.
    The restriction to one set might be cool as a challenge but not realistic. A secondary use for those slots might be great
  • Sorin81
    Sorin81 Posts: 558 Critical Contributor
    Nail, meet hammer.
  • rafalele
    rafalele Posts: 876 Critical Contributor
    Perfect understanding @Brigby. 
  • andrewvanmarle
    andrewvanmarle Posts: 978 Critical Contributor
    Same here @Brigby, 

    And a standard custom deck slot would help a lot! 
  • rafalele
    rafalele Posts: 876 Critical Contributor
    I know people who does not play the standard events just not to waist 10 minutes to adjust their decks every event. They say they only have few minutes to play and not to build decks.
  • shteev
    shteev Posts: 2,031 Chairperson of the Boards
    Brigby said:
    deck slots are useful but too expensive
    Also boosters are useful but too expensive. Actually, not very useful, either.
  • speakupaskanswer
    speakupaskanswer Posts: 306 Mover and Shaker
    I was looking forward to the deck slots but never used them because the event decks serve that function perfectly. I don't mind building a deck for new events as long as I just keep it for that event. I basically don't really use the main deck anymore. Maybe I'd use the deck slots if they didn't cost so much.
  • wickedwitch74
    wickedwitch74 Posts: 267 Mover and Shaker
    edited June 2017
    The theme decks are useless, and will be even more so when Kaladesh rotates. Please drop em'.

    There should be:

    -PW Starter Deck slot (comes with walker)
    -Standard Deck slot (Free)
    -Legacy Deck slot (Free)
    -Customizable (~50 gems)
    -Customizable (~5000 runes)

    Then give us some more events, like Pauper and Block-specific to make those extra slots meaningful.


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