MtGPQ Halloween Celebration! (10/22/18)

Brigby
Brigby ADMINISTRATORS Posts: 7,757 Site Admin
Hi Everyone,

The Multiverse is getting spooky as Halloween quickly approaches, so we're celebrating the occasion! Check out all the details below:

Hallow's Eve

Hallow's Eve is back again this year for Halloween! This Legacy PvP event will be running 3 times, and features your devious and cunning Blue and Black Planeswalkers. Here are the dates that the event will be running:
  • Run 1
    • Opt-In: 10/28/18 06:00 UTC
    • Start: 10/28/18 12:00 UTC
    • End: 10/30/18 10:00 UTC
  • Run 2
    • Opt-In: 10/31/18 06:00 UTC
    • Start: 10/31/18 12:00 UTC
    • End: 11/2/18 10:00 UTC
  • Run 3
    • Opt-In: 11/3/18 06:00 UTC
    • Start: 11/3/18 12:00 UTC
    • End: 11/5/18 10:00 UTC

Planeswalkers

Zombies, Vampires, and Werewolves. Oh my! Check out the following schedule to see which deadly Planeswalkers you can pick up from the vault:
  • 10/25/18 - 11/1/18
    • manablackpng Liliana, Death's Majesty 
    • manablackpng Liliana, The Last Hope
    • managreenpng Garruk Wildspeaker
  • 10/25/18 - 11/8/18
    • manawhitepng manablackpng Sorin, Grim Nemesis
    • manablackpng Ob Nixilis, Reignited
    • manablackpng Liliana, Untouched by Death
    • manablackpng managreenpng Vraska, Relic Seeker
  • 11/1/18 - 11/8/18
    • manaredpng managreenpng Arlinn Kord
    • manabluepng Jace, Cunning Castaway
    • managreenpng Nissa, Vital Force

Color Bundles

For those that want to Meld the power of both Black and Blue cards into their decks, in order to Emerge victorious, we'll be adding both the M19 Blue and Black Color Bundles into the Vault. They will both be available between 10/29/18 and 11/6/18.

  

Booster Packs

Embrace the horror-themed plane of Innistrad with Shadows over Innistrad Booster Packs available throughout the entire Halloween celebration from 10/25/18 to 11/06/18.
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Comments

  • HelloKitty
    HelloKitty Posts: 26 Just Dropped In
    Fun. Thank you. 
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  • RithPrimeval
    RithPrimeval Posts: 14 Just Dropped In
    Sweet! 
  • khurram
    khurram Posts: 1,090 Chairperson of the Boards
    Colored bundles and only M19 at that. One would have guessed creature special packs like vampires werewolves, horrors, spirits, demons, zombies, wizards and witches etc from all sets. Maybe increased rewards from all events for a week? Or a sale on the PWs?

    Maybe throw in the guaranteed rares and mythics packs like ZvsE, now that they are a thing. As one of my friends suggested.

    What I see is developers just dusting up a 2 years old event for another run and calling it a Halloween "celebration".

    Will shadows over innistrad be just simply available in the vault or will we get extra boosters from that set during events? The former doesn't make as much sense for a celebration.
  • Kinesia
    Kinesia Posts: 1,621 Chairperson of the Boards
    khurram said:
    Colored bundles and only M19 at that. One would have guessed creature special packs like vampires werewolves, horrors, spirits, demons, zombies, wizards and witches etc from all sets. Maybe increased rewards from all events for a week? Or a sale on the PWs?

    Maybe throw in the guaranteed rares and mythics packs like ZvsE, now that they are a thing. As one of my friends suggested.

    What I see is developers just dusting up a 2 years old event for another run and calling it a Halloween "celebration".

    Will shadows over innistrad be just simply available in the vault or will we get extra boosters from that set during events? The former doesn't make as much sense for a celebration.

    Other people want the holiday events, if you don't unless they are updated then that's fine, this isn't for you, feel free to not play it.  The devs are busy fixing bugs and getting Ravnica ready, so a small detour to get this out of the basement is great but we don't want them spending too much time on it till next year maybe!

    And _everyone_ keeps saying to not have content done to death, to dig up _any_ of the rarer older stuff, so surely 2 years is a big enough break for you to be happy we aren't playing it too often?

    Overall this is more good than bad and will make more people happy than not and is a Good decision.



  • Tremayne
    Tremayne Posts: 1,673 Chairperson of the Boards
    Great that you have brought this back.

    I can’t remember much about the old event so I will most likely treat it as a new event.
  • Imbrium
    Imbrium Posts: 30 Just Dropped In
    I'm really looking forward to this, this will be my first opportunity to play the Halloween Event.  I really like that it will be repeated. 
    I've been enjoying the legacy kick, and revisiting old sets and old favourites.    
  • khurram
    khurram Posts: 1,090 Chairperson of the Boards
    Kinesia said:
    khurram said:
    Colored bundles and only M19 at that. One would have guessed creature special packs like vampires werewolves, horrors, spirits, demons, zombies, wizards and witches etc from all sets. Maybe increased rewards from all events for a week? Or a sale on the PWs?

    Maybe throw in the guaranteed rares and mythics packs like ZvsE, now that they are a thing. As one of my friends suggested.

    What I see is developers just dusting up a 2 years old event for another run and calling it a Halloween "celebration".

    Will shadows over innistrad be just simply available in the vault or will we get extra boosters from that set during events? The former doesn't make as much sense for a celebration.

    Other people want the holiday events, if you don't unless they are updated then that's fine, this isn't for you, feel free to not play it.  The devs are busy fixing bugs and getting Ravnica ready, so a small detour to get this out of the basement is great but we don't want them spending too much time on it till next year maybe!

    And _everyone_ keeps saying to not have content done to death, to dig up _any_ of the rarer older stuff, so surely 2 years is a big enough break for you to be happy we aren't playing it too often?

    Overall this is more good than bad and will make more people happy than not and is a Good decision.



    Err... thank you for giving me the permission to not play it?
    Apologies for expecting more and giving suggestions for the game that I have been dedicated too.

    Guess I should just wait to find out the next batch of bugs that the devs have been busy working on instead  :)

  • FindingHeart8
    FindingHeart8 Posts: 2,731 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited October 2018
    I'm really happy they brought out this 'ol event for another playthrough, but some additional content would be nice.  Doesn't have to be a lot of new content, but just the cherry on top.

    For older players who've played through this event already, it's like:

    Image result for charlie brown i got a rock
  • Kinesia
    Kinesia Posts: 1,621 Chairperson of the Boards
    khurram said:
    Kinesia said:
    khurram said:
    Colored bundles and only M19 at that. One would have guessed creature special packs like vampires werewolves, horrors, spirits, demons, zombies, wizards and witches etc from all sets. Maybe increased rewards from all events for a week? Or a sale on the PWs?

    Maybe throw in the guaranteed rares and mythics packs like ZvsE, now that they are a thing. As one of my friends suggested.

    What I see is developers just dusting up a 2 years old event for another run and calling it a Halloween "celebration".

    Will shadows over innistrad be just simply available in the vault or will we get extra boosters from that set during events? The former doesn't make as much sense for a celebration.

    Other people want the holiday events, if you don't unless they are updated then that's fine, this isn't for you, feel free to not play it.  The devs are busy fixing bugs and getting Ravnica ready, so a small detour to get this out of the basement is great but we don't want them spending too much time on it till next year maybe!

    And _everyone_ keeps saying to not have content done to death, to dig up _any_ of the rarer older stuff, so surely 2 years is a big enough break for you to be happy we aren't playing it too often?

    Overall this is more good than bad and will make more people happy than not and is a Good decision.



    Err... thank you for giving me the permission to not play it?
    Apologies for expecting more and giving suggestions for the game that I have been dedicated too.

    Guess I should just wait to find out the next batch of bugs that the devs have been busy working on instead  :)


    Sorry if it sounded that way, I'm not trying to give permission, more wanting to encourage a change of attitude in lots of us!
     
    Instead of there being _someone_ complaining about every single thing (Because between us all we hate and love everything!) I'd love it if a lot of people could go, "Meh, I don't care about that!" and just ignore it instead of complaining... Save up our EXTREME OUTRAGE! For the important stuff (like the Decree of the Sphinx right now!).

    More posts from people like "Well, I'm not interested in this because of blah, but I have seen the other people asking for it, so great!" would up the mood of the forums right now greatly.

  • Azerack
    Azerack Posts: 501 Critical Contributor
    I barely remember this event, so I am interested to be reminded. 

    That being said, don't forget that the Duel deck event is this weekend, so get your "treats" while you can in case the "trick" is that the Halloween event isn't your "bag, baby..".  ;)

    (Yes, I referenced Austin Powers, I'm not ashamed..  B) )
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  • Laeuftbeidir
    Laeuftbeidir Posts: 1,841 Chairperson of the Boards
    Wow. Thats what i call a challenge.
  • ertaii
    ertaii Posts: 216 Tile Toppler
    TOKENS DONT COUNT!!!??????  :#:'(:s:/
    And by the time you realise that you can't change your planes walker anymore...... :(
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  • Azerack
    Azerack Posts: 501 Critical Contributor
    Oh, btw, the text on the loading screen mentions they are Enraged Matches, but no, they are not. ;) 
  • Mburn7
    Mburn7 Posts: 3,427 Chairperson of the Boards
    @Brigby are the devs aware that when this event first run Tokens counted for the objectives?  It is absolutely absurd to expect us to cast 13 creatures from hand in a match.  Please either reduce the numbers (how about 4 and 7?) or let tokens count (not sure if its possible to code that for a specific event, but if you can it would work to)
  • rafalele
    rafalele Posts: 876 Critical Contributor
    Mburn7 said:
    @Brigby are the devs aware that when this event first run Tokens counted for the objectives?  It is absolutely absurd to expect us to cast 13 creatures from hand in a match.  Please either reduce the numbers (how about 4 and 7?) or let tokens count (not sure if its possible to code that for a specific event, but if you can it would work to)
    Please, fix this and the bracket size.
  • Mburn7
    Mburn7 Posts: 3,427 Chairperson of the Boards
    rafalele said:
    Mburn7 said:
    @Brigby are the devs aware that when this event first run Tokens counted for the objectives?  It is absolutely absurd to expect us to cast 13 creatures from hand in a match.  Please either reduce the numbers (how about 4 and 7?) or let tokens count (not sure if its possible to code that for a specific event, but if you can it would work to)
    Please, fix this and the bracket size.
    To be honest I've given up on the bracket size thing.  It has been broken ever since Oktagon took over, and they just don't seem to care.  Its getting sad that I expect that every single event being run will be some form of unplayable, and I am rarely wrong
  • Tilwin90
    Tilwin90 Posts: 662 Critical Contributor
    edited October 2018
    Tinykitty event with Tinykitty rewards. I loved the holidays one but this is just not fun.

    I started with lili4 with the stupid illusion that I would be able to switch planeswalkers and have some fun with various brews. Big mistake!

    Now I am at the mercy of haters that push in Kiora decks filled with summoners pacts, gaea revenges, ghalta and other ****.

    And you know the worst part? I actually tried to build a decent zombies deck and the 13 objective is impossible with these opponents. Heck even the 7 objective I sometimes miss. If tokens counted I would've been able to easily come up with a competitive deck that could put up with the hate and still hit the objectives. 😒

    Bottom line: bad objectives, horrible team sport attitude from people, boring gameplay, meh rewards. Cheap recycling..