FindingHeart8 said: It's a pay to win game these days, no amount of grinding with our minimized current rewards can match the VIP rewards.
Endbringer said: I'm pretty sure they place certain drop rates on certain high quality chase cards just to get people to empty out their wallets
madwren said: Endbringer said: I'm pretty sure they place certain drop rates on certain high quality chase cards just to get people to empty out their wallets A long time ago, a friend of a friend of a friend datamined the drop rates of individual cards and determined that specific cards were set to be "more rare" than other cards at those rarity levels. That was under Hibernum, but I assume that Oktagon has the same method.
Smokincookz said: I had done enough grinding for 2 PP’s, as I don’t really have cash to afford much, anymore. The PW’s (for crystals, not cash) have seemed a better value to me.Of the 50 possible cards (not including the 2 guaranteed rares) I had 9 common/uncommon dupes, two new rares, 1 mythic (a solid mythic, thankfully).The rarity these days doesn’t mean jack compared to the written text, cost, and card features/effects...Looking at you, GARBAGE cards! Such as: Wayfaring Temple, Evolution Vat, Plague Boiler, Chancellor of the Annex, Firemane Avenger, Experimental Frenzy, Charnel Troll, Spawn of Mayhem, God-Eternal Bontu, Momir Vig, and Illharg, the Raze-Boar.Good riddance to these cards, as I doubt they’ll ever be played in Legacy. I almost never saw them used in Standard. I have never seen anyone use Wayfaring Temple or Plague Boiler! Hot garbage.Thankfully, most sets since WAR have had fewer MP’s and Mythics that are worse than certain commons/uncommons.These cards are so denigrating to the classification of Masterpiece and Mythic, IMO they should not have been selected as such. Considering the cost of pinks & non-dupe packs, these MP’s were a horribly negative value. Those are only from the previous Standard! Dreadwaters, Fraying Sanity, ugh, just awful.
TomB said:I don't know about all those "garbage" cards, but I've used Momir Vig to some positive effect before. And I've faced Firemane Avenger a few times as well. The rest might be hot garbage, but those 2 cards are okay I think...
jtwood said: FindingHeart8 said: It's a pay to win game these days, no amount of grinding with our minimized current rewards can match the VIP rewards. Pay to collect. The AI is really bad, so you can win quite a bit without any sincere investment.But you can't collect without paying.re:OP... It's just chance.
Endbringer said: I purchased 12000 crystals and used 15000 to open premiums. I received only 2 Masterpieces, still need 16 mythics, and 2 rares. Of course I didn't get the Angel of Destiny that was the very reason I spent all that money. I'm pretty sure they place certain drop rates on certain high quality chase cards
Wolfteeth said: I bought 5 of the orange booster packs from the new Zendikar set and only got ONE mythic.