PSA: HOU cards not included in hoarded AMK packs

AresOmega
AresOmega Posts: 75 Match Maker
in MtGPQ General Discussion
The new HOU cards are in a separate card pack category, so all of your hoarded AMK packs will only pull from the AMK card set without HOU cards.

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  • wickedwitch74
    wickedwitch74 Posts: 267 Mover and Shaker
    disgraceful, if true.
  • speakupaskanswer
    speakupaskanswer Posts: 306 Mover and Shaker
    Very true, but actually makes sense considering the amount of new cards. Would still have been nice to know beforehand.
  • Chavez303
    Chavez303 Posts: 42 Just Dropped In
    Man, aint this some bu******
  • wickedwitch74
    wickedwitch74 Posts: 267 Mover and Shaker
    Can we get confirmation that hoarded AKH packs do NOT have cards from HOU?
  • babar3355
    babar3355 Posts: 1,128 Chairperson of the Boards

    Confirmed.. just look in the cards you can loot from the packs... no HOU. 

    Anyway, probably a good thing for the game... all new cards will actually be new.  But super annoying they didn't communicate this to us.


  • wickedwitch74
    wickedwitch74 Posts: 267 Mover and Shaker
    Thanks. Sigh... yeah, would have been nice to know.
  • Gilesclone
    Gilesclone Posts: 735 Critical Contributor
    I feel sorry for everyone that saved their packs, but this is much better for me personally.  Now my new cards won't be dups.
  • Mainloop25
    Mainloop25 Posts: 1,959 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited July 2017
    Edited because I'm dumb
  • AresOmega
    AresOmega Posts: 75 Match Maker
    Boy do I hope this is true. All 15 of my horded packs only gave me AMK cards, then the category disappeared when I had claimed them all.
  • Logarythmic
    Logarythmic Posts: 2 Just Dropped In
    My understanding is that when you get a pack, it's locked into the 'type' of pack it is.  When they add new sets, the 'type' on the new packs changes.  
  • madwren
    madwren Posts: 2,259 Chairperson of the Boards
    Mainloop25 said:
    This is not true at all, I have pulled HOU cards from hoarded AKH packs.
    That's odd. I opened 49 packs of AMK and didn't get one HOU.
  • arNero
    arNero Posts: 358 Mover and Shaker
    Gilesclone said:
    I feel sorry for everyone that saved their packs, but this is much better for me personally.  Now my new cards won't be dups.
    It does annoy me to a degree, but at the same time there's a silver lining, in that now we KNOW we can mass-open our AKH boosters without worrying they're going to add something new in the future. (you know, exclusive cards and such)
  • majincob
    majincob Posts: 732 Critical Contributor
    [arNero] said:
    Gilesclone said:
    I feel sorry for everyone that saved their packs, but this is much better for me personally.  Now my new cards won't be dups.
    It does annoy me to a degree, but at the same time there's a silver lining, in that now we KNOW we can mass-open our AKH boosters without worrying they're going to add something new in the future. (you know, exclusive cards and such)
    I prefer it in separate packs personally. Only it's not so great they pulled AKH from the store without warning.
  • Mainloop25
    Mainloop25 Posts: 1,959 Chairperson of the Boards
    My mistake! 

    But I agree with you
  • UweTellkampf
    UweTellkampf Posts: 376 Mover and Shaker
    I foolishly listened to this conversation: 

    Are reward packs going to have the new cards right away or are you going to do the "limited time only"  increased chance / there are really two different sets of cards thing like you did with the AKH additions?

    @Brigby: I reached out to the developers, and they informed me that reward packs will contain the new cards when the set arrives. This includes the Free Daily Boosters too!

    Maybe I misread something in there?
  • speakupaskanswer
    speakupaskanswer Posts: 306 Mover and Shaker
    UweTellkampf said:
    I foolishly listened to this conversation: 

    Are reward packs going to have the new cards right away or are you going to do the "limited time only"  increased chance / there are really two different sets of cards thing like you did with the AKH additions?

    @Brigby: I reached out to the developers, and they informed me that reward packs will contain the new cards when the set arrives. This includes the Free Daily Boosters too!

    Maybe I misread something in there?
    There is nothing inaccurate in there, just more double-speak. There are reward packs which contain the new cards. It's just not the AKH packs as the question had implied. That is simply how their communication works.
  • Ohboy
    Ohboy Posts: 1,766 Chairperson of the Boards
    Bad communication works both ways. 

    Nowhere in that quoted question did the guy asking the question talk about AKH reward packs. 
  • madwren
    madwren Posts: 2,259 Chairperson of the Boards
    I think that allowing people to target the set they want is a positive change. I do wish they'd, you know, alerted us to it ahead of time, but that's an unrealistic expectation these days.
  • wickedwitch74
    wickedwitch74 Posts: 267 Mover and Shaker
    My guess is that D3 realized players were hoarding their packs from the initial big set and waiting to open them when the smaller second set hit.

    This meant people were spending fewer gems/$$$ to obtain new cards.

    By separating the sets into individual packs, they guarantee people will spend more currency to acquire the latest cards.

    This makes a lot of sense, and from a players perspective, I'm ok with separating the sets.

    Just wish this had been communicated. I mean, geez, they still haven't mentioned anything regarding this change.
  • Brigby
    Brigby ADMINISTRATORS Posts: 7,757 Site Admin
    UweTellkampf said:
    I foolishly listened to this conversation: 

    Are reward packs going to have the new cards right away or are you going to do the "limited time only"  increased chance / there are really two different sets of cards thing like you did with the AKH additions?
    Brigby: I reached out to the developers, and they informed me that reward packs will contain the new cards when the set arrives. This includes the Free Daily Boosters too!

    Maybe I misread something in there?
    Hi Everyone. I believe there might have been some confusion with the interpretation of the phrase "reward packs." I interpreted "reward packs" to be the packs that are rewarded to players from events, as opposed to vault/purchased packs. Following that logic, there are of course new events that will provide reward packs containing the HOU card set.

    Having said that though, my response was never meant to be "double-speak," or purposeful miscommunication, and I apologize for any confusion I might have generated from this interaction. 

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