Do you have what it takes to face the unknown? Then, come! Join the battles of the ages! Literally. You never know which character you’ll run into. Might be a recent story rival, or a long forgotten boss, sometimes even that much forgotten that you never even heard of! You’ll need to be prepared for anything, so: grab your gear, your mana, your library - maybe even a companion - and face this challenge!
SPECIAL RULES
Face randomly chosen opponents in sequence. You can lose up to 3 matches per entry and play up to 7 matches. Each victory grants you 10 points, and each defeat grants you 5. Your rewards will be based upon your score.
Each battle features a different enemy. Event supports may be spawned according to the opponent.
I noticed that we are going to be playing against just “Nicol Bolas” without any title like “the Ravager”. So I really hope that we will be facing OG book reading Nicol Bolas. If you could make this happen and the PW art of the AI we face is the original Nicol Bolas art it would be amazing!!
you can play until you either win 7 matches or lose 3 matches. So as long as you don’t lose 3 times you are guaranteed the full rewards, and you can probably win 6 times then scoop twice instead of playing through a seventh. So the risk level is much lower than originally expected.
The enemies are from various past events, all seem fairly high in HP lowest I’ve encountered was 150~ highest was 500~) making for grindy fights that are easiest to win using loop combos (I used Tamiyo with Omni-Whir Second Sun). I assume some enemies are more challenging than others and may require some strategizing but most are just beef.
There are no secondary objectives meaning some fights that are usually harder due to self imposed restrictions are now quite simple.
I was allowed to complete the event twice so far and can still start it a third time. I would guess the rewards in the exclusive pack will change every time they run it, since you can get all of them this weekend.
Overall, not a very original or interesting event for veterans but profitable if you have time and want mythics.
Each run through (providing you succeed) will cost you 55 yellow, for which you will get 55 pink, 6k runes, a standard booster, a non-dup legacy rare, and one of the four exclusive mythics. I’ve been saving my yellows for PMA cards, but I went for this four times and got all the prizes. I didn’t lose any games at all, using a simple looping deck:
PW: Narset of the Ancient Way
U - Wizard Class
M - Magma Opus
U - Beacon Bolt
R - Whir of Invention
C - Tezzeret’s Ambition
R - Rite of Flame
R - Talent of the Telepath
C - Sage’s Row Savant
C - Secrets of the Golden City
U - Helping Hands
I’m sure there are lots of variations you can do based on the collection you have. Magma Opus is nice because it disables opposing creatures, so even if they have defenses, it doesn’t help them after the first one goes off. I haven’t tried using Approach of the Second Sun, but that would probably be fine too.
The main worry is getting a Wizard Class into play soon enough, but that mostly hadn’t been a problem for this deck. A couple of the opponents can destroy your supports, so that can cause a bit of trouble because you may need to cast Wizard Class a few times to get one to stick.
@Oktagon_Support Thank you for making this event and adding to it as sets get released, this is probably the best value content you have made for us players in many years!
@Oktagon_Support Just completed the event and the Standard booster does NOT include NEO and the Exclusive content booster does NOT include the 2 NEO cards shown above. Just wasted my time and 100 mana crystals. I’ve raised a support ticket, 122779.
Hi guys, thanks for letting me know about this!
I’ve already forwarded it to the team to check and correct, as soon as I have any updates on this, I’ll let you know.
