MtGPQ Sneak Peek: July 2018 Edition *Updated (7/26/18)

Brigby

Magic: Puzzle Quest Sneak Peek: Upcoming In July, 2018
(*Important note: Anything listed below is subject to change before release. We will try to update any changes in a timely manner, but please keep in mind the info below is not guaranteed.)

PLANESWALKERS
Current list of Planeswalkers available in the Vault can be found HERE

EVENT SCHEDULE OVERVIEW
(Legacy events are darker color. Standard events are lighter color)

*New Update*

UPCOMING SINGLE-PLAYER EVENTS
Event Details:

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Upcoming Events:
A World Reborn

• Coalition Event
  
• Deck Restrictions: Origins, Hour of Devastation, Ixalan, Rivals of Ixalan, Dominaria
  
• Opt-In Time: 7/27/18 2:00pm UTC
  
• Start Time: 7/27/18 8:00pm UTC
• End Time: 7/30/18 6:00pm UTC

Fateful Showdown *New Update*

• Deck Restrictions: None
  
• Opt-In Time: 7/31/18 9:00am UTC
  
• Start Time: 7/31/18 3:00pm UTC
• End Time: 8/4/18 3:00pm UTC

Past Events:

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Oath of the Gatewatch: Part 1

• Deck Restrictions: None
  
• Opt-In Time: 7/3/18 5:00pm UTC
  
• Start Time: 7/3/18 5:00pm UTC
• End Time: 7/5/18 3:00pm UTC

Oath of the Gatewatch: Part 2

• Deck Restrictions: None
  
• Opt-In Time: 7/5/18 5:00pm UTC
  
• Start Time: 7/5/18 5:00pm UTC
• End Time: 7/7/18 3:00pm UTC

The Long Cold Darkness

• Deck Restrictions: Origins, Hour of Devastation, Ixalan, Rivals of Ixalan, Dominaria
  
• Opt-In Time: 7/12/18 11:00am UTC
  
• Start Time: 7/12/18 5:00pm UTC
• End Time: 7/14/18 3:00pm UTC

The Phyrexian Compleation

• Deck Restrictions: Origins, Hour of Devastation, Ixalan, Rivals of Ixalan, Dominaria
  
• Opt-In Time: 7/16/18 11:00am UTC
  
• Start Time: 7/16/18 5:00pm UTC
• End Time: 7/18/18 3:00pm UTC

A Nightmare of War

• Deck Restrictions: Origins, Hour of Devastation, Ixalan, Rivals of Ixalan, Dominaria
  
• Opt-In Time: 7/19/18 11:00am UTC
  
• Start Time: 7/19/18 5:00pm UTC
• End Time: 7/21/18 3:00pm UTC

Return of the God-Pharaoh 

• Coalition Event
• Boss Health: 3,500,000
• Deck Restrictions: Origins, Hour of Devastation, Ixalan, Rivals of Ixalan, Dominaria
  
• Opt-In Time: 7/20/18 10:00am UTC
  
• Start Time: 7/20/18 4:00pm UTC
• End Time: 7/25/18 4:00pm UTC or when boss is defeated

The Space-Time Catastrophe

• Deck Restrictions: Origins, Hour of Devastation, Ixalan, Rivals of Ixalan, Dominaria
  
• Opt-In Time: 7/23/18 11:00am UTC
  
• Start Time: 7/23/18 5:00pm UTC
• End Time: 7/25/18 3:00pm UTC

UPCOMING MULTIPLAYER EVENTS
Event Rewards:

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Across Ixalan
*In Progress*

Training Grounds
Progression Rewards

Trial of the Planes
Progression Rewards

Upcoming Events:
Training Grounds - Every Day, Alternates Between Standard and Legacy *New Update*

• Start Time: 11:00pm UTC
  
• End Time: 10:59pm UTC

Trial of the Planes - Weekdays

• Cost: 60 Mana Crystals
• Color Order: White, Blue, Black, Red, Green
• Opt-In Time: 1:00am UTC
• Start Time: 7:00am UTC
• End Time: 5:00am UTC

Across Ixalan - (7/23 - 7/28)

• Cost: 20 Mana Crystals
• Color Order: Blue, Green, White, Red, All Colors, Black
• Opt-In Time: 10:00pm UTC
• Start Time: 4:00am UTC
• End Time: 2:00am UTC

Terrors in the Shadows *New Update*

• Deck Restrictions: None
• Opt-In Time:  7/30/18 6:00am UTC
• Start Time: 7/30/18 12:00pm UTC
• End Time: 8/1/18 10:00am UTC

Across Ixalan - (7/30 - 8/4) *New Update*

• Cost: 20 Mana Crystals
• Color Order: Green, Blue, White, Black, All Colors, Red
• Opt-In Time: 10:00pm UTC
• Start Time: 4:00am UTC
• End Time: 2:00am UTC

The Dragon War *New Update*

• Deck Restrictions: Origins, Ixalan, Rivals of Ixalan, Dominaria, Core Set 
• Opt-In Time: TBD
• Start Time: TBD
• End Time: TBD

Past Events:

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Race to Orazca

• Coalition Event
• Deck Restrictions: Origins, Hour of Devastation, Ixalan, Rivals of Ixalan, Dominaria
• Opt-In Time:  7/3/18 2:00pm UTC
• Start Time: 7/3/18 8:00pm UTC
• End Time: 7/5/18 6:00pm UTC

Across Ixalan - (7/2 - 7/7)

• Cost: 20 Mana Crystals
• Color Order: Green, Blue, White, Black, All Colors, Red
• Opt-In Time: 10:00pm UTC
• Start Time: 4:00am UTC
• End Time: 2:00am UTC

Nodes of Power

• Deck Restrictions: None
• Opt-In Time:  7/7/18 10:00am UTC
• Start Time: 7/7/18 4:00pm UTC
• End Time: 7/9/18 2:00pm UTC

Across Ixalan - (7/9 - 7/14)

• Cost: 20 Mana Crystals
• Color Order: Blue, Green, Red, White, Black, All Colors
• Opt-In Time: 10:00pm UTC
• Start Time: 4:00am UTC
• End Time: 2:00am UTC

Terrors in the Shadows

• Deck Restrictions: None
• Opt-In Time:  7/10/18 6:00am UTC
• Start Time: 7/10/18 12:00pm UTC
• End Time: 7/12/18 10:00am UTC

Hour of Devastation - Elspeth

• Coalition Event
• Deck Restrictions: Origins, Hour of Devastation, Ixalan, Rivals of Ixalan, Dominaria
  
• Opt-In Time:  7/13/18 2:00pm UTC
• Start Time: 7/13/18 8:00pm UTC
• End Time: 7/16/18 6:00pm UTC

Across Ixalan - (7/16 - 7/21)

• Cost: 20 Mana Crystals
• Color Order: Black, Red, White, Green, All Colors, Blue
• Opt-In Time: 10:00pm UTC
• Start Time: 4:00am UTC
• End Time: 2:00am UTC

Nodes of Power

• Deck Restrictions: None
• Opt-In Time:  7/25/18 10:00am UTC
• Start Time: 7/25/18 4:00pm UTC
• End Time: 7/27/18 2:00pm UTC

CHANGELOG

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(6/27/18) *Updated image overviews, Single Player events, and Multiplayer events.
(6/29/18) *Updated image overviews, Single Player events, and Multiplayer events.
(7/06/18) *Updated image overviews, Single Player events, and Multiplayer events.

(7/17/18) *Updated image overviews, Single Player events, and Multiplayer events.
(7/26/18) *Updated image overviews, Single Player events, and Multiplayer events.

bk1234

RotGP without HUF / AotSS??? Bring it!! 

GrizzoMtGPQ

Yeah! RTO mid week! Thank you D3. There is so much more to do. STUFF!

Rasalghul

Thanks Brigby for schedule ! Lots of work ahead but it is part of the job !

gogol666

Next hod features Elspeth: cool!
Elspeth is not in the vault next week: bad!

Bravo!

Machine

GrizzoMtGPQ said:

Yeah! RTO mid week! Thank you D3. There is so much more to do. STUFF!

A coaltion event mid week? Booooooo!!!

babar3355

Love the mid week coalition event.  My weekdays are way more open than weekends!   Also, you guys really should have updated the HoD Elspeth event earlier so that people could have bought her while in the vault last week.  Some angry folks will show.

Hatter

Brigby Hour of Devastation - Elspeth starting on July 6th are you going to make her available in the vault for the new players

gogol666

babar3355 said:

Love the mid week coalition event.  My weekdays are way more open than weekends!   Also, you guys really should have updated the HoD Elspeth event earlier so that people could have bought her while in the vault last week.  Some angry folks will show.

Or you can put elspeth in the vault again next week

Laeuftbeidir

Again, the perfect event for during the week is during the weekend, and the week will be a grind. That's just my opinion, still.. Meh.

But way more important: an event with a required planeswalker that is not available in the vault? Really? That's pointless.

octal9

Laeuftbeidir said:

But way more important: an event with a required planeswalker that is not available in the vault? Really? That's pointless. 

@Brigby this is a big problem - Elspeth really ought to be in the vault before this event goes live. It effectively removes the ability for players without her to have a chance at top slots for the individual leaderboard, and demands a high level of play to hit progression goals. This hurts progression (that is to say, earning new cards and moving up in effectiveness) for the less-hardcore crowd (e.g. players in silver and bronze). Can you please raise this issue with Oktagon ASAP?

TheDude1

This has to be an oversight, as it seems like a big miss from the business aspect of this game... why would you ever put something out that requires a purchased element (in this case a PW for crystals), then not offer that element for sale?  At the very least it would get people to use their crystals, especially on an item that has been declining in value with newer substitutes...

Daulken

I'm one of those personally affected, so figured I'd post here just as an actual example, and not a theoretical one.

I've been playing about 2 months now, grinding through story mode and just getting around to taking the game very seriously, I've made a couple of significant purchases and joined a coalition.

Then I immediately learn that my first coalition event is one I won't be able to participate in, since I've bought several planewalkers, but Elspeth wasn't one of them.

It makes me feel very 'meh' about the coordination of the next level aspects of the game I was previously looking forward to quite a bit.

--Daulken

Mark_Tedin

Thank you @Brigby for the Schedule. Now we will have things to do during the week !

fiirst

can Oktagon add Elspeth into the vault prior next HoD start?

UweTellkampf

Second this. Many newer players would like to be able to compete

Mark_Tedin

I'm absolutely against featured PW in colitions events. 

Brakkis

I'm quite surprised they didn't add her to the Vault with her event coming up.

You can still reach full progression in the event without her; though, it is difficult. However, you won't be able to get very high in terms of personal ranking without her and that severely handicaps any newer players who haven't had a chance to acquire Elspeth at this point.

bk1234

[MOD NOTE] Merged into existing discussion on Elspeth availability for HoD [//MOD NOTE]

Rhasget

What are the max charges in AWR this weekend?

HarryMason

I haven't groaned this hard in a while. I'm glad we're heard . 'Don't give us a 5 node, midweek event' ... Here, have this 5 node , midweek event. But don't worry, the weekend event is only 2. Hod elspeth is a nice change from awkward bolas fest. I'm still waiting for the time when the pw ends up in the vault without the community whining for it, but at least we'll be back to the normal bolas concentration. And weeeeeee. God Pharaoh . I hate it, but I'll take it over boft . Overall 6/10. I'm not mad , but I'm not gonna do a jig , either