Mini Events

DBJones
DBJones Posts: 803 Critical Contributor
in MtGPQ General Discussion
I was thinking about Hour of Devastation, and some people requesting Bolas for the locked slot, and an interesting idea came to me. It would be interesting to have an event similar to Holiday Showdown (rewards too) locked to a single Planeswalker. Preferably one available in the vault when the event runs. I'd quite enjoy facing off deck-building skills, especially for some of the Planeswalkers I don't use much. It seems like it would be pretty easy to add in too, but I can't be sure on that account. Anyone else think this sounds interesting?

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  • FindingHeart8
    FindingHeart8 Posts: 2,731 Chairperson of the Boards
    I'd be a fan of that, also would be cool to face off against non-staple planeswalkers.  Feels like all I ever face is Bolas/Kiora/Samut decks
  • DBJones
    DBJones Posts: 803 Critical Contributor
    Exactly, a Tezz1 showdown would be really interesting :). Garruk too. I don't have them yet, but I'm getting there. I'm only missing red Ajani (1 I think?), Arlinn, Nissa3 (blue/green, in case I got the number wrong), and 7 of the single color Planeswalkers now, and I intend to get them all.
  • FindingHeart8
    FindingHeart8 Posts: 2,731 Chairperson of the Boards
    Agreed!  I'd like to see fights that were just the 5 (now seen as beginner) planeswalkers.

    ...though I'd be a bit worried walking my toddler lvl 12 Gideon1 against a level 60 Gideon...I have beat lvl 60s with babyGideon before.
  • Sarahschmara
    Sarahschmara Posts: 554 Critical Contributor
    Yeah. I really miss the PW arenas. It was a great excuse to dust off some of my unused PWs and experiment with new builds. 
  • asm0deus
    asm0deus Posts: 73 Match Maker
    What if they make it that you have to buy the PW but for that specific event you get to play them at lvl60?
  • Mburn7
    Mburn7 Posts: 3,427 Chairperson of the Boards
    Fun Fact:  They did have this for a little bit, where we had an event linked to 2 specific planeswalkers (the third node was open).  They were legacy walkers that had just rotated into the shop that week, if I remember correctly.  The issue was the objectives sucked, and they stopped making new ones after the first couple (if I remember correctly, this was a while back)
  • khurram
    khurram Posts: 1,090 Chairperson of the Boards
    Mburn7 said:
    Fun Fact:  They did have this for a little bit, where we had an event linked to 2 specific planeswalkers (the third node was open).  They were legacy walkers that had just rotated into the shop that week, if I remember correctly.  The issue was the objectives sucked, and they stopped making new ones after the first couple (if I remember correctly, this was a while back)
    Planeswalkers Arena. They did not stop it because the objectives sucked. I suspect it was too much work for them.
  • DBJones
    DBJones Posts: 803 Critical Contributor
    I had heard about that, but I feel my suggestion has a few benefits for both players and developers. For one, I wanted the rewards set up like Holiday Showdown, progression only, and no bonus objectives. Thus, the only things the developers would need to decide are the number of charges, what rewards you get, when it runs, and such. Probably less than most events. Most importantly, there's only one node, so no need to worry about choosing Planeswalkers that are balanced versus each other. Once they set up the event, the only things they'd need to do are schedule it, choose which Planeswalker, and maybe tweak things every once in awhile.
  • bk1234
    bk1234 Posts: 2,924 Chairperson of the Boards
    asm0deus said:
    What if they make it that you have to buy the PW but for that specific event you get to play them at lvl60?
    At the beginning of coalition play they had a Saheeli event where she locked in one node and you had to use a (horrible) pre-built deck. The other Nodes were open. 

    It would be nice to see something like this with a leveled PW and the choice to use a pre-made deck or one of your own. 
  • rafalele
    rafalele Posts: 876 Critical Contributor
    bken1234 said:
    asm0deus said:
    What if they make it that you have to buy the PW but for that specific event you get to play them at lvl60?
    At the beginning of coalition play they had a Saheeli event where she locked in one node and you had to use a (horrible) pre-built deck. The other Nodes were open. 

    It would be nice to see something like this with a leveled PW and the choice to use a pre-made deck or one of your own. 
    In that event I won Saheeli before she was sold by crystals. Yes the reward for the first was a planeswalker those were good rewards times.

    I loved to play that event because it let me play with a new planeswalker and with a bunch of mythics that I have not gotten until crafting has arrived.
  • Mainloop25
    Mainloop25 Posts: 1,959 Chairperson of the Boards
    I'd love to see more mini-events of any kind. Maybe just with a good amount of runes for finishing high in rank.
  • Enygma6
    Enygma6 Posts: 266 Mover and Shaker
    These kind of events would be fun.  
    1-day events, locked to a single PW, no secondary objectives, 3-5 charges (no refreshes, a la ToTP nodes).  
    Progression rewards of runes and crystals (TG-style).  No huge game-changing rewards, so as not to overly punish players who can't participate.  But give players who have the correct PW an excuse to do something with it.
  • hawkyh1
    hawkyh1 Posts: 780 Critical Contributor
    Enygma6 said:
    These kind of events would be fun.  
    1-day events, locked to a single PW, no secondary objectives, 3-5 charges (no refreshes, a la ToTP nodes).  
    Progression rewards of runes and crystals (TG-style).  No huge game-changing rewards, so as not to overly punish players who can't participate.  But give players who have the correct PW an excuse to do something with it.

    an extension to this idea could be to make tg with
    bonus's for a specific planewalker. eg tg g1 day,
    play and win with g1 on this day to get 20% more
    runes. doing this means tg will not change for
    those without g1 or aren't willing to take part, but
    gives a non game changing bonus to those who do
    take part. it could make grinding for runes more
    interesting as players switch planeswalkers each
    day to optimize their grinding.

    HH
  • Phillmoore
    Phillmoore Posts: 207 Tile Toppler
    I like it.  Everyone using the same Planeswalkers would be interesting.  Make it also one where you buy in to play and get say a set number of events packs to draw from.  So not everydeck you face will be the same big cards but can only be made from those you draw for the event. 
  • DBJones
    DBJones Posts: 803 Critical Contributor
    I would love some form of booster draft in this game, but I suspect it would be difficult to program. I'll ask in the February Q&A if I remember.
  • TheDragonHermit
    TheDragonHermit Posts: 465 Mover and Shaker
    edited January 2018
    @DBJones I proposed something like that a while ago, though I think it was sealed format, suggesting that a secondary "event lirbary" could be used and that the rewards could be a certain number of cards from that library depending on ranking. Thought it would make a nice buy-in event, like TotP.

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