Left behind in Amonkhet

Rhasget
Rhasget Posts: 412 Mover and Shaker
in MtGPQ General Discussion

I feel left behind with these new sets due to poor luck. Spent all my resources on Ixalan (4000 crystals on PPs and Vraska and 1200 purples for Elitepacks). Managed to get only 3 mythics (lots of dupes gave orbs enough to craft my third mythic when it became possible) and 11 rares. But have all common and uncommon. 
And have no RIX yet since I have tried playing the new cards for a change and getting nearly no resources from events.

I have tried all tribes now in AI and TG and can not build a deck that is somewhat near competetive. Fun when you hit every card right and synergize but mostly they fizzle and get stomped due to lacking some top cards to get the decks going.

I face new tribal decks every day which look like fun, but I'm still playing the same decks I did 6 months ago to have a chance of winning and get new resources. It's like I'm playing an older version of the game.
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  • Stormbringer0
    Stormbringer0 Posts: 190 Tile Toppler
    Well, I know how you feel. I got pretty lucky in Ixalan at first, but I bought two RIX premium packs and got the exact same rares. Plus, I'm regularly play against decks with 2-3 really good Masterpiece while I have two nearly non-playable one (Ornithopter and Avatar of Woe).

    Bottom line: Some peeps just have more luck then others. Sadly enough.
  • morgue427
    morgue427 Posts: 783 Critical Contributor
    yep caught me by suprise also so i didnt have much chance to save many for rix, got a few decent pulls but nothing earth changing so far.
  • FindingHeart8
    FindingHeart8 Posts: 2,736 Chairperson of the Boards
    yeah that in my opinion was always the perk of things like tribal secondary objectives, it pushed people to play outside of the most powerful cards they have.

    Like with Innistrad and the "play 3 vampires" objective: I mean, there are some powerful vampires out there...but I'd rather face them than a legion of Emrakuls
  • FindingHeart8
    FindingHeart8 Posts: 2,736 Chairperson of the Boards
    I'd trade every one of my XLN mythic and rare cards for a single RIX tinykitty booster pack.
  • Bil
    Bil Posts: 831 Critical Contributor
    edited March 2018
    Mainloop25 said:
    I wish I hadn't spent so many crystals on XLN and saved more for RIX. 
       So do i ... The really early release of RIX was cool because it allowed to make XLN mechanics more playable ... But it would have been better to announce this release schedule before players spent all their currencies on XLN packs.

       In fact, it looks like the timer on packs represent the release of the next set ... XLN timer was 1 month ... Now RIX is 2 month and a few days... I suppose we can deduce when dominaria will be out. (Any confirmation from the devs would be cool though).
       
  • bk1234
    bk1234 Posts: 2,924 Chairperson of the Boards
    It's worse because the prizes aren't RIX -- that would be a great help to everyone in this position. 
  • Rhasget
    Rhasget Posts: 412 Mover and Shaker
    bken1234 said:
    It's worse because the prizes aren't RIX -- that would be a great help to everyone in this position. 
    Rewards in BoFT PVE event has both XLN and RIX boosters as progression rewards at least. 

    Coalition rewards need you to place top 50 for just a RIX single booster (and 40 yellow + 30 purple crystals also).

    Hopefully there aren't any specific XLN or RIX objectives to get bonus objectives. 
  • TheExaminer
    TheExaminer Posts: 94 Match Maker
    Well, before spending all currency on a set, check out what cards are in it, and what percentages of getting a rare or mythic are. When Ixalan came out, I even created a thread, about how bad Ixalan boosters were gonna be, telling people to not buy it.
    The funniest thing is, they even reduced the chance of getting a rare in ixalan after that. Now it is about 50 % for rare and 10 % for mythic.
    In conclusion, you have really no one to blame except yourself.
  • Rhasget
    Rhasget Posts: 412 Mover and Shaker
    TheExaminer said:
    Well, before spending all currency on a set, check out what cards are in it, and what percentages of getting a rare or mythic are. When Ixalan came out, I even created a thread, about how bad Ixalan boosters were gonna be, telling people to not buy it.
    The funniest thing is, they even reduced the chance of getting a rare in ixalan after that. Now it is about 50 % for rare and 10 % for mythic.
    In conclusion, you have really no one to blame except yourself.
    Im not blaming anyone else for spending my resources. Just that RNGesus isn't with me atm and that wiser players like you can say how much better you are.

    But venting here might actually give some encouragement (trying to do so with my non-playing wife gave nothing of understanding) from others who have done the same.
  • FindingHeart8
    FindingHeart8 Posts: 2,736 Chairperson of the Boards
    Rhasget said:
    TheExaminer said:
    Well, before spending all currency on a set, check out what cards are in it, and what percentages of getting a rare or mythic are. When Ixalan came out, I even created a thread, about how bad Ixalan boosters were gonna be, telling people to not buy it.
    The funniest thing is, they even reduced the chance of getting a rare in ixalan after that. Now it is about 50 % for rare and 10 % for mythic.
    In conclusion, you have really no one to blame except yourself.
    Im not blaming anyone else for spending my resources. Just that RNGesus isn't with me atm and that wiser players like you can say how much better you are.

    But venting here might actually give some encouragement (trying to do so with my non-playing wife gave nothing of understanding) from others who have done the same.
    funny you mentioned that, there's a thread specifically for venting...floating out around here...somewhere...

    https://forums.d3go.com/discussion/70877/the-safe-rant-thread-for-letting-off-steam#latest

  • FindingHeart8
    FindingHeart8 Posts: 2,736 Chairperson of the Boards
    TheExaminer said:
    Well, before spending all currency on a set, check out what cards are in it, and what percentages of getting a rare or mythic are. When Ixalan came out, I even created a thread, about how bad Ixalan boosters were gonna be, telling people to not buy it.
    The funniest thing is, they even reduced the chance of getting a rare in ixalan after that. Now it is about 50 % for rare and 10 % for mythic.
    In conclusion, you have really no one to blame except yourself.
    could you do that again with Rivals compared to XLN?  I'm not near my phone at the moment but curious to compare.

  • Rhasget
    Rhasget Posts: 412 Mover and Shaker
    FindingHeart8 said:
    Rhasget said: på
    TheExaminer said:
    Well, before spending all currency on a set, check out what cards are in it, and what percentages of getting a rare or mythic are. When Ixalan came out, I even created a thread, about how bad Ixalan boosters were gonna be, telling people to not buy it.
    The funniest thing is, they even reduced the chance of getting a rare in ixalan after that. Now it is about 50 % for rare and 10 % for mythic.
    In conclusion, you have really no one to blame except yourself.
    Im not blaming anyone else for spending my resources. Just that RNGesus isn't with me atm and that wiser players like you can say how much better you are.

    But venting here might actually give some encouragement (trying to do so with my non-playing wife gave nothing of understanding) from others who have done the same.
    funny you mentioned that, there's a thread specifically for venting...floating out around here...somewhere...

    https://forums.d3go.com/discussion/70877/the-safe-rant-thread-for-letting-off-steam#latest

    Ah, forgot about that one. It has slid of the first page.
  • FindingHeart8
    FindingHeart8 Posts: 2,736 Chairperson of the Boards
    Rhasget said:
    FindingHeart8 said:
    Rhasget said: på
    TheExaminer said:
    Well, before spending all currency on a set, check out what cards are in it, and what percentages of getting a rare or mythic are. When Ixalan came out, I even created a thread, about how bad Ixalan boosters were gonna be, telling people to not buy it.
    The funniest thing is, they even reduced the chance of getting a rare in ixalan after that. Now it is about 50 % for rare and 10 % for mythic.
    In conclusion, you have really no one to blame except yourself.
    Im not blaming anyone else for spending my resources. Just that RNGesus isn't with me atm and that wiser players like you can say how much better you are.

    But venting here might actually give some encouragement (trying to do so with my non-playing wife gave nothing of understanding) from others who have done the same.
    funny you mentioned that, there's a thread specifically for venting...floating out around here...somewhere...

    https://forums.d3go.com/discussion/70877/the-safe-rant-thread-for-letting-off-steam#latest

    Ah, forgot about that one. It has slid of the first page.
    Yeah I was the same way until I felt the need to vent about something but couldn't find any topics on the first page to match it lol.
  • TheExaminer
    TheExaminer Posts: 94 Match Maker
    FindingHeart8 said:
    TheExaminer said:
    Well, before spending all currency on a set, check out what cards are in it, and what percentages of getting a rare or mythic are. When Ixalan came out, I even created a thread, about how bad Ixalan boosters were gonna be, telling people to not buy it.
    The funniest thing is, they even reduced the chance of getting a rare in ixalan after that. Now it is about 50 % for rare and 10 % for mythic.
    In conclusion, you have really no one to blame except yourself.
    could you do that again with Rivals compared to XLN?  I'm not near my phone at the moment but curious to compare.

    Here you go, bud. Looks ridiculous, right? :)

    P.s: spent all my gold on Rivals, obviously...
  • FindingHeart8
    FindingHeart8 Posts: 2,736 Chairperson of the Boards
    TheExaminer said:
    FindingHeart8 said:
    TheExaminer said:
    Well, before spending all currency on a set, check out what cards are in it, and what percentages of getting a rare or mythic are. When Ixalan came out, I even created a thread, about how bad Ixalan boosters were gonna be, telling people to not buy it.
    The funniest thing is, they even reduced the chance of getting a rare in ixalan after that. Now it is about 50 % for rare and 10 % for mythic.
    In conclusion, you have really no one to blame except yourself.
    could you do that again with Rivals compared to XLN?  I'm not near my phone at the moment but curious to compare.

    Here you go, bud. Looks ridiculous, right? :)

    P.s: spent all my gold on Rivals, obviously...
    I wish I had known I only had to wait a month for the good stuff.  I would have held onto my bundle of crystals lol
  • ZW2007-
    ZW2007- Posts: 813 Critical Contributor
    I will say that the adjustment to a lot of the XLN cards with the release of RIX has improved it's worthiness greatly. I would say both sets are on pretty equal footing overall. I do agree though that a tentative release schedule would be nice. I have no doubt the quick sequential releases was intentionally unmentioned so that people would blow a lot of resources on XLN and then be left feeling short for RIX and therefor more likely to fork over cold hard cash.
  • Coilbox
    Coilbox Posts: 202 Tile Toppler
    TheExaminer said:
    FindingHeart8 said:
    TheExaminer said:
    Well, before spending all currency on a set, check out what cards are in it, and what percentages of getting a rare or mythic are. When Ixalan came out, I even created a thread, about how bad Ixalan boosters were gonna be, telling people to not buy it.
    The funniest thing is, they even reduced the chance of getting a rare in ixalan after that. Now it is about 50 % for rare and 10 % for mythic.
    In conclusion, you have really no one to blame except yourself.
    could you do that again with Rivals compared to XLN?  I'm not near my phone at the moment but curious to compare.

    Here you go, bud. Looks ridiculous, right? :)

    P.s: spent all my gold on Rivals, obviously...
    It's like even the devs dont want you to play Ixalan cards at all xD
  • deletedgone
    deletedgone Posts: 166 Tile Toppler
    I haven’t checked the math, but is it possible that they just seed the random pool “x” amount per card? For example, 100 of each common, 75 of each uncommon, 10 of each rare, and 1 of each mythic?

    In this model, smaller sets with higher concentrations of mythics would end up with better odds of pulling one.
  • FindingHeart8
    FindingHeart8 Posts: 2,736 Chairperson of the Boards
    ZW2007- said:
    I will say that the adjustment to a lot of the XLN cards with the release of RIX has improved it's worthiness greatly. I would say both sets are on pretty equal footing overall. I do agree though that a tentative release schedule would be nice. I have no doubt the quick sequential releases was intentionally unmentioned so that people would blow a lot of resources on XLN and then be left feeling short for RIX and therefor more likely to fork over cold hard cash.
    awwwww I didn't even think about that.  Sneaky sneaky Octagon, sneaky sneaky

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