Unclear set of new cards and HOU promotion

Rasalghul
Rasalghul Posts: 162 Tile Toppler
in MtGPQ General Discussion
Comparing to the previous promotion for AKH I guess, for which I was kind of "careless" for not checking the list of new cards in the promotion, the current promotion is really "unclear", to say the least.

First, the complete set of HOU cards was released prior to the current promotion instead of the subset of new cards. Moreover a list of unavaible cards was also listed. 

But as the cards are not identified in any way in the game or in the link showing the HOU set, it is impossible to make an "educated" gamble when we buy a new booster, SP or PP. 

Finally, not knowing the new cards (something around 20) but having at the same time a list of unavailable cards, it is possible that we end up having a very small number of new cards that we can get with high chance.

Please make future communications about new waves of card release clearer so that the players don't feel fooled and later complain, quit the game, etc...

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  • Brigby
    Brigby ADMINISTRATORS Posts: 7,757 Site Admin
    Hi @Rasalghul. Usually when new cards become available in the game, we add those card previews into the corresponding Card Gallery. This means players don't know which cards are being added until the day of, and that's when we update the Card Gallery.

    This time around though, we've decided to reveal all of the cards in the gallery ahead of time, and then we update the post to reflect when they become available in-game. The reason you didn't initially see them in-game was simply because they weren't available yet.
  • Rasalghul
    Rasalghul Posts: 162 Tile Toppler
    Thanks Brigby for your comment. But it is quite off-topic. Maybe I did not make myself understood as I'm French and English is not my mother tongue  :p

    My point is that we could have a shorter Card Gallery focusing on the new cards so that we can preview them. The promotion would have told us when they are available. 

    For informed players, we all have studied the first batch of HOU cards whether with the Card Gallery before v2.2 update or in the game. Even that I can't recite the first 149 HOU initially released by name !

    I remember from a previous similar promotion how new cards have been previewed so seeing that the promotion started 1 day before your new card list update today, I found the timing "strange".

  • Brigby
    Brigby ADMINISTRATORS Posts: 7,757 Site Admin
    Ohh I see. If I'm interpreting what you're saying correctly, and my apologies if I'm not, are you asking if the Card Gallery website page can be separated into different sections: Initial Card Release, 1st New Additions, 2nd New Additions, etc. This way they aren't all in one giant section?
  • Mainloop25
    Mainloop25 Posts: 1,959 Chairperson of the Boards
    I like that idea
  • Rasalghul
    Rasalghul Posts: 162 Tile Toppler
    edited August 2017
    Brigby, the improvements you propose for the Card Gallery would be good, additional filters such as : 
    1) Card release : Initial release, 1st addition, .. n-th addition, latest addition
    2) Card Color : Colorless, Black, Blue, Green, Red, White. Multiple choice filter would be great too.

    Clear identification of card subsets by criteria is what we need. Size is not a problem as you can release hundreds of new cards at the same time. Moreover, I'd rather check the card collection in the game as the filter system is good and cards can be searched by custom keywords. 

    My only problem was that new cards cannot be previewed prior or at the start of the HOU promotion.

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