New Event: Planechasing Fblthp (7/26/19)

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Fblthp, the Lost homunculus, has been spotted! Now you must hurry and try to catch him, and help him to control his rampant spark. If you succeed, Fblthp will be happy to share the rarest of his findings with you (for a price).

This Sunday, 7/28/19, marks the first ever Planechasing Fblthp event! There are 9 different versions of this event, but only one will be run at any given time. They are quick and fun casual events, and both entering and completing them will unlock the chance to acquire the Fblthp, The Lost Planeswalker, and brand new Full Card Art bundles!

Check out the details of this Sunday's event below!

Planechasing Fblthp: Accidental Spark - Beginner

Fblthp, The Lost - Level 20

Loyalty Abilities
  • Also Lost (6) - Return target creature you control to your hand. It gains 4 mana.
  • Accidentally Found (12) - Shuffle target creature you control into your library. Then, fetch the first creature from your library. Its power and toughness becomes 1/1.
  • I've Always Hated Crowds (18) - Draw 2 cards. Each of those cards gain 1 mana for each creature on the battlefield. Then, shuffle all nontoken creatures on the battlefield into their owner's library.

Objectives
  • Win The Fight!
    • Win the fight against your opponent!
    • Reward: 200 Mana Runes, +1 Personal Score
  • Pauper
    • Win with only Common and Uncommon cards.
    • Reward: 1,000 Mana Runes, +1 Personal Score
  • Recruit
    • Cast 4 creatures with cost 9 or less.
    • Reward: 1,000 Mana Runes, +1 Personal Score

Rewards

Bundles

Fblthp, The Lost - Planeswalker
  • Unlocked by entering the Planechasing Fblthp event
  • Cost: 320 Mana Crystals
  • Content:
    • Fblthp, the Lost - Planeswalker
    • 18,500 Mana Runes
Totally Lost - Full Card Art
  • Unlocked by entering the Planechasing Fblthp event
  • Cost: 70 Mana Crystals
  • Contains:
    • Totally Lost - Full Card Art Version 
Ugin, the Ineffable - Alternate Full Card Art
  • Unlocked by completing all objectives in the Planechasing Fblthp event
  • Cost: 400 Mana Crystals
  • Contains
    • Ugin, the Ineffable - Japanese Full Card Art Version
Want to see what other cards you can get the full / alternate artwork for? Well then take a look at the full card gallery below:
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Comments

  • Narcoticsagent
    Narcoticsagent Posts: 203 Tile Toppler
    Will each of the 9 different versions of the event give access to a different full art planeswalker bundle?
  • FindingHeart8
    FindingHeart8 Posts: 2,731 Chairperson of the Boards
    Hmmmmm.  Sounds interesting 
  • IM_CARLOS
    IM_CARLOS Posts: 640 Critical Contributor
    Sounds like a big money grab.
    Winning an event to buy a card you already have in a different version... you never can't trade... well. 

    But can be interesting, if you can buy a card you don't have have for MC instead of gambling for any card in VAnguard packs. 

  • Azerack
    Azerack Posts: 501 Critical Contributor
    Maybe it's just me, but 400 crystals for different artwork for a card I already have... And it's JUST ONE card, not a few...  What, did you have to send the whole Oktagon team overseas to Japan to pick up the artwork? Was it hand-crafted, pixel by pixel, into the card art from the original, which, of course, is available for people to just download off the net?...

    Something tells me if you really had the chance, you would just be selling the card art for $29.99, but thought "better" of it. 

    Remember, that alternate card art's cost is MORE than a current Premium pack... So, I don't get how you priced it... 

    Still looking forward to the event, but geez, could someone on the Business side stop playing those gambling apps with D3's money so you aren't trying to hoard more of ours? 


  • Bil
    Bil Posts: 831 Critical Contributor
    I won't buy it, thats for sure... but we've been asking for the esthetic stuff since a while and we know the guys ... We shouldn't expect anything to be cheap in this game ...

    Besides, with how terrible Ugin is ... None is playing it anyway ...  :#
  • Azerack
    Azerack Posts: 501 Critical Contributor
    Bil said:
    I won't buy it, thats for sure... but we've been asking for the esthetic stuff since a while and we know the guys ... We shouldn't expect anything to be cheap in this game ...

    Besides, with how terrible Ugin is ... None is playing it anyway ...  :#
    Yeah, I've even got the suggestion for the Japanese artwork to shock me that they actually listened to something!

    And yet, apart from the fact that it's mostly Vanguard supports (or.. all?) they got the art for, the way they are "doling it out" just seems cheap.. :(

    For 400 crystals, I'd at LEAST want a few (three or four) of the cards and hey, maybe some mana jewels to go towards getting one of the Vanguard cards I don't have... (Oh, and while they're at it, remove the dupe possibility for Vanguard supports).
  • Volrak
    Volrak Posts: 732 Critical Contributor
    Azerack said:
    Remember, that alternate card art's cost is MORE than a current Premium pack... So, I don't get how you priced it... 
    A mythic drops on average around once per 3 PPs, making the average cost of mythics from packs around 1000 crystals each.  400 is cheap in comparison, especially when you can control whether it's a dupe or not and choose to avoid the purchase if it would be.  (Sure, you get other stuff from PPs as well, but players with a real lack for runes or c/u/r cards don't seem to be the target demographic here.)

    You could argue that normal packs are bad value for mythic-hunting in general, and that therefore that comparison isn't so meaningful.  And you might have a point, because of the two rather effective alternative ways of pulling mythics (orbs and jewels) that the developers have added to the game.

    Of course, Ugin will be a (functional) dupe for pretty much all current players.  That's all that's necessary to explain why few people will pick it up in this case.  A more interesting case for judging the price point would be an alternate art mythic whose normal version wasn't previously given out for free.
  • Bil
    Bil Posts: 831 Critical Contributor
    edited July 2019
    Volrak said:
    Azerack said:
    Remember, that alternate card art's cost is MORE than a current Premium pack... So, I don't get how you priced it... 
    A mythic drops on average around once per 3 PPs, making the average cost of mythics from packs around 1000 crystals each.  400 is cheap in comparison, especially when you can control whether it's a dupe or not and choose to avoid the purchase if it would be.  (Sure, you get other stuff from PPs as well, but players with a real lack for runes or c/u/r cards don't seem to be the target demographic here.)

    You could argue that normal packs are bad value for mythic-hunting in general, and that therefore that comparison isn't so meaningful.  And you might have a point, because of the two rather effective alternative ways of pulling mythics (orbs and jewels) that the developers have added to the game.

    Of course, Ugin will be a (functional) dupe for pretty much all current players.  That's all that's necessary to explain why few people will pick it up in this case.  A more interesting case for judging the price point would be an alternate art mythic whose normal version wasn't previously given out for free.
    Wait a minute ... They never said the alternate art would grant you the card itself ...  Or i missed something?

    I must admit the wording is confused ... But wouldn't it be strange to offer targeted mythic vanguards for 400 crystals ... While they offer the same card, without full art, abd a risk of dupes for 300 jewels ?

    If it is so, it's a nice move ... But also a huge slap in the face to players that spent tons of pinks in dupe vanguards.


  • Volrak
    Volrak Posts: 732 Critical Contributor
    I think it's a distinct card and not just a skin on an existing card because of this, from the 3.6 release notes:
    (Please Note: These cards are considered individual separate cards, so when you’re creating a deck, you will need to choose between the standard artwork card or its full/alternate art card.)
    But I guess we might not know for sure until they become available and someone tries it.
  • Bil
    Bil Posts: 831 Critical Contributor
    Maybe @brigby could enlight us?
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  • Azerack
    Azerack Posts: 501 Critical Contributor
    Volrak said:
    I think it's a distinct card and not just a skin on an existing card because of this, from the 3.6 release notes:
    (Please Note: These cards are considered individual separate cards, so when you’re creating a deck, you will need to choose between the standard artwork card or its full/alternate art card.)
    But I guess we might not know for sure until they become available and someone tries it.
    This is what I was referring to. The only problem is, except for new players who come afterward, everyone who played from the beginning of this current expansion got the Ugin vanguard card for free, remember?

    So now they want us to pay 400 for the same card with different art.

    Yup, it IS a "separate card", but it just seems like they should have released the alternate art in a different way. 

    I see what you mean about getting a Mythic card, let alone a Vanguard, for "cheap", but if we have it already, why charge us for a duplicate of a card we already have, just for the artwork?
  • Bil
    Bil Posts: 831 Critical Contributor
    edited July 2019
    So ... Let's resume ...

    Mid june, we have an annoucement about vanguards available for jewels ... Followed by the promise we would have enhanced droprates of jewels in events in order to purchase them ... 

     Obviously, this argument was meant to be an incentive to spend pinks  on them ... And credulous customers did spend their pinks.

      Right after the WAR release, customers realized the packs could give dupes ... At that point we were still supposed to get more pinks from events so we lived with the disappointment.

      A few weeks later, we realize that instead of increased pinks drops,  we had the exact opposite ... A drastic cut on pinks in every WAR event ... 

     And now ... Less than 2 months after the initial annoucement ... After players have spent a significant part of their hoarded pinks on fake annoucement basis ... This ... 

    Honestly, what a scandalous breach of trust ...

     Lack of communication was already a thing, but we got to another level here ...  Fancy tricks  and shameless lies ... is that the treatment customers should expect from the firm in the future?

  • Azerack
    Azerack Posts: 501 Critical Contributor
    edited July 2019
    Yup, that pretty much sums it up... Good, if not sad, recap... 
  • Enygma6
    Enygma6 Posts: 266 Mover and Shaker
    Volrak said:
    I think it's a distinct card and not just a skin on an existing card because of this, from the 3.6 release notes:
    (Please Note: These cards are considered individual separate cards, so when you’re creating a deck, you will need to choose between the standard artwork card or its full/alternate art card.)
    But I guess we might not know for sure until they become available and someone tries it.
    I'm always game for trying something wacky.  Having picked up the full-art cards from the Fblthp bundles, I decided to try doubling up on those cards.  
    The game forces you to pick one or the other.  
    If you select the normal-art version, then try to add the full-art version, the normal one will become de-selected.  
  • morgue427
    morgue427 Posts: 783 Critical Contributor
    gave it a try just to see, won and unlocked everything with one battle and the legacy bundle pack it gave me had 3 mythics and 2 masterpieces so heck yeah bugged but i will take it lol
  • HomeRn
    HomeRn Posts: 330 Mover and Shaker
    morgue427 said:
    gave it a try just to see, won and unlocked everything with one battle and the legacy bundle pack it gave me had 3 mythics and 2 masterpieces so heck yeah bugged but i will take it lol
    I can confirm - that "basic legacy booster" is just like the ones you get from VIP... which means it prioritizes non-duplicates!

    Claimed my booster... got Sword of Light and Shadow, Ornithopter, Mind's Eye, Platinum Angel, and Slaughter Pact!  That's a lot of orbs saved from not having to craft them!
  • Boogeyman
    Boogeyman Posts: 223 Tile Toppler
    Did anyone buy this planeswalker?  Is it worth 320 gold?
  • morgue427
    morgue427 Posts: 783 Critical Contributor
    i bought it wasnt very much to level him up 80k i think. havent tried him out yet though, debating if i want to try to gring to get ugin or but the totally lost card pack
  • khurram
    khurram Posts: 1,090 Chairperson of the Boards
    400 crystals actually is roughly about what they've put up guaranteed mythics in the past. I'm more curious to know if this is just for Ugin or if they'll offer other alternate Vanguards for crystals too. I mean I'd love to get tamiyo or Teferi for 400 crystals but it will be a surprising move considering their regular versions are only accessible through dupe-able jewel packs.

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