New Event - Duel Decks *Updated (4/2/18)

Brigby
Brigby ADMINISTRATORS Posts: 7,757 Site Admin
edited April 2018 in MtGPQ General Discussion

April Fools!

While sadly, we currently have no plans to actually create this event, we hope you enjoyed our little April Fool's joke. Feel free to discuss the idea of the Duel Decks Event types, and if that is something you, as a community, would enjoy. They would be directed towards players with smaller collections, allowing everyone to enjoy a varied experience, which is why they will yield cards from the most recent and relevant collections.

Anyways, that’s it for now. Thanks for reading and hope you enjoyed it.

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Hi Everyone,

Coming to you from Oktagon’s Lead Game Designers Matheus Funfas and Pedro Rauiz E. Gestal (written and designed on their own time just for you :) ), we are proud to announce…


This event is MTG PQ's first foray into the Duel Deck Event Type. This new event will be short and simple. A specially designed experience that puts the player on one side of the conflict.

The Goat vs Chupacabras Duel Deck Event will work the following way:

  • Players will be able to play in both nodes.

  • Depending on the selected node, the player will play either as the Goatwatcher or the Macabre Chupacabra.

  • The Special Node Effects will be the same on both nodes: the Goatscape. Let’s take a look at its effects:

  • Both the Goatwatcher and the Macabre Chupacabra are new Planeswalker's that will only be playable in the event.

  • The event will not have Rank or Coalition Rewards and will only have Progression Rewards.

  • The event will run twice a week; once on the weekend and another during the week.

  • Reaching the top of the Progression Rewards will give players:

    • Standard Commons and Uncommon Packs (These will be packs with all Commons and Uncommon cards from standard that have 0% chance of yielding duplicates)

    • Standard Rare (A Standard Legal Rare)

  • Some Mana Jewels

  • Access to two cheap offers:

    • The Goatwatcher Deck Essentials

      • Lurking Chupacabra (Common - Creature - XLN)

      • Deadeye Tracker (Rare - Creature - XLN)

      • Driven // Despair (Rare - Spell - HOU)

    • The Chupacabra's Deck Essentials

      • Thriving Ibex (Common - Creature - KLD)

      • Oath of Ajani (Rare - Support - AER)

      • Heroic Intervention (Rare - Spell - AER)

Now, onto a closer look at The Goat Watcher.

The Goat Watcher

Decklist

  • Thriving Ibex (Common - Creature - KLD)

  • Gift of Paradise (Common - Support - AMK)

  • Sage of Shaila's Claim (Common - Creature - KLD)

  • Appetite for the Unnatural (Common - Spell - KLD)

  • Fabrication Module (Uncommon - Support - KLD)

  • Rogue Refiner (Uncommon - Creature - AER)

  • Oath of Ajani (Rare - Support - AER)

  • Heroic Intervention (Rare - Spell - AER)

  • Aethergeode Miner (Mythic - Creature - AER)

  • Slaughter Pact (Masterpiece - Spell - HOU)

The Goatwatcher and her Deck is all about making her goats bigger and stronger with the Energize and Overload Mechanics.


Now onto their predators...:


Macabre Chupacabra

Decklist

  • Enter the Unknown (Common - Spell - RIX)

  • Seeker's Squire (Common - Creature - XLN)

  • Foul Orchard (Common - Support - SOI)

  • Lurking Chupacabra (Common - Creature - XLN)

  • Path of Discovery (Uncommon - Support - RIX)

  • Ifnir Deadlands (Uncommon - Spell - HOU)

  • Deadeye Tracker (Rare - Creature - XLN)

  • Driven // Despair (Rare - Spell - HOU)

  • Uncage the Menagerie (Mythic - Spell - RIX)

  • Spiritmonger (Elite - Creature - XLN)

The Macabre Chupacabras are a ravenous bunch and will stop at nothing to destroy your goats. They will explore new places in search of food. If they can't find it, they will turn your creatures into goats before eating them.

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Comments

  • ElfNeedsFood
    ElfNeedsFood Posts: 944 Critical Contributor
    Yeah!  New content!  Very unique too!
  • Thuran
    Thuran Posts: 456 Mover and Shaker
    Hoping this isnt just aprils fools :D sounds hillariously stupid 
  • bk1234
    bk1234 Posts: 2,924 Chairperson of the Boards
    Is the RIX edition of Uncage the Menagerie an Exclusive? 
  • Volrak
    Volrak Posts: 732 Critical Contributor
    To pre-empt the disappointment I'm sure many players will feel upon realising that the perfect counter to Goat Watcher (Goatnapper) was not pulled in from Lorwyn and added to the Chupacabra deck, there's actually a very good reason for this:  It's off-colour!  Putting a red card in a green/black deck would just be taking things a step too far.
  • jtwood
    jtwood Posts: 1,285 Chairperson of the Boards
    This is great :D
  • Waschecht
    Waschecht Posts: 76 Match Maker
  • Mainloop25
    Mainloop25 Posts: 1,959 Chairperson of the Boards
    It looks kinda fun,   too bad it's surely a prank! 
  • Gilesclone
    Gilesclone Posts: 735 Critical Contributor
    After playing this all day on my special shill account,  I have to complain.  That Goat Watcher is broken!  It’s no fair to be constantly matched against huge Goat stacks.  Nerf the Goat Master already!
  • khurram
    khurram Posts: 1,090 Chairperson of the Boards
    I think the goats are gonna get slaughtered and chupacabras will win.
  • Gilesclone
    Gilesclone Posts: 735 Critical Contributor
    Seriously all the HUF/Compelling Argument decks don’t even stand a chance against the Goats.
  • Mburn7
    Mburn7 Posts: 3,427 Chairperson of the Boards
    Brigby said:

    • Reaching the top of the Progression Rewards will give players:

      • Standard Commons and Uncommon Packs (These will be packs with all Commons and Uncommon cards from standard that have 0% chance of yielding duplicates)

      • Standard Rare (A Standard Legal Rare)

    So what happens if you already have all commons and uncommons in standard?  Do you just not get that reward?

    Otherwise, this seems like a fun little event, and a great gateway to more cool ideas in this format.  Thanks!
  • Gilesclone
    Gilesclone Posts: 735 Critical Contributor
    It’s a fun little event until you’re facing down a stack of 800/800 Goats with Trample and Menace on Turn 2!
  • Phillmoore
    Phillmoore Posts: 207 Tile Toppler
    edited April 2018
    April fools?   Announced on a Sunday!  And Easter at that.  Gotta be @Brigby way of having some fun!!!!
  • Bil
    Bil Posts: 831 Critical Contributor
    edited April 2018
    Yep, sounds like april fools... Call the goatwatch and deploy the goatwatch ... Nice one!
  • madwren
    madwren Posts: 2,259 Chairperson of the Boards
    5/5 would play
  • Mburn7
    Mburn7 Posts: 3,427 Chairperson of the Boards
    Brigby said:
    *April Fools! We hope you enjoyed the team's little prank.

    Please feel free to discuss the idea of Duel Decks though, as we'd love to hear your thoughts on this conceptual game mode/event :)
    Not cool man, not cool.  

    On a serious note, though, LETS DO THIS
  • Thuran
    Thuran Posts: 456 Mover and Shaker
    Hell yeah! The concept of events with precon decks sounds awesome!
  • Mainloop25
    Mainloop25 Posts: 1,959 Chairperson of the Boards
    I knew it! :-T But yes ,the game could use a few more "just for fun" events, get on it! 
  • FindingHeart8
    FindingHeart8 Posts: 2,731 Chairperson of the Boards
    Dude, I'm reading this a day later knowing it's an April Fools joke and all I feel is sadness for not being able to play this super sweet event.

    Image result for sad goat picture

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