@babar3355 but what do you think they should do specifically about jewels?
Elite packs should draw three cards and allow the user to select one. This keeps the RNG of opening packs, keeps the “targeting” of a small set of cards, mitigates the gambling aspect, and removes horrible edge cases where players proc the only card they already have. You would basically be guaranteed a new card as long as you didn’t have more than 2 of the cards already.
This has to be considered fair from both sides of the equation, and the value of Jewels would appreciate.
what about the 120 jewels lucky dip?
what about the masterpieces?
my idea is there is a rotation of lets say 8 mythics.
you choose 4 mythics that you want and they get
mixed in with the 3 masterpieces. thus your personal
elite card pool is created. you can then choose to buy
an elite pack using that pool as normal. this will allow
you to focus on the cards that you want but not allow
you to choose a specific card.
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So y’all want Omniscience, right?
Are you trolling me buddy? I literally gave some ideas earlier in this very thread.
And the problem with Omniscience is that its completely overpowered. That’s a balance issue. In my ideal world players with enough effort, skill and/or money could collect the entire set. And if the game was balanced and objectives were well constructed, virtually every card would get some play even from decent players.
I spent 120j on a rare pack earlier today, and opened… a Sifter Wurm. Trash card.
I know, I know, buyer beware, right? Y’all have no sympathy?
That’s kind of why nobody likes spending mana jewels on purple packs. I mean, true, I could have opened a Slaughter Pact, and then, maybe, I’d have posted a happy post here. Maybe I’m a huge hypocrite. But I didn’t, and let’s face it the odds of me opening a bad card were much, much higher than me opening a good one. Games like this rely on the fact that people post good experiences, and they post bad experiences, and it looks like the two are happening at a fairly equivalent rate, when they really aren’t.
Here’s the rub, tho… we’ve all been playing this game for a while, and we’ve all bought multiple packs. No matter how lucky we might have got at one time, the law of averages has hit us all, and we’ve all realised, hey, wait a minute! I personally have to buy 20 packs to get a masterpiece!!! (Or, yknow, whatever the unpublished drop rates are now). Other people’s anecdotal evidence pales into insignificance compared to our own personal bell curve of disappointment.
I think 120 jewel packs only have mythics at best? Can someone else confirm?
That’s not really my point, I didn’t spend 120j hoping to get a masterpiece. But, certainly, I’d like that data too.
Well whatever your point may have been, you made it sound like you were hoping to get slaughter pact out of the 120j pack
They carry everything. Even masterpieces.
120j packs are the least-sampled data we have on the drop rates spreadsheet. A grand total of 7 120j packs have been entered. We’ll only know the odds of mp/m/r in those packs if people take the time to record what they opened. (Or if D3 publishes the drop rates, of course.)
Well you can have my data if you like, but there’s a certain confirmation bias in it, isn’t there… would I have posted if I’d got the Imaginary Threats I was after?
I’ve never gotten anything better than a rare in 120j pack. I’ve opened 4.
I opened 4-5 early in this rotation and got one Mythic.
personally, i am saving up all my jewels and crystals till i see if the mtgpq Ixalan cards are any good or needed for Ixalan event objectives. If they aren’t good or needed, i will only spend when the akh/hou cycling cards get rotated out of standard play.
I have opened 6 120j packs and just got rares, and of course of the 2 opened in last rotation the first was a dupe Sifter Wurm. At least the other one was Inferno jet, needed for the RotGP event against Nicol Bolas in my Ajani 1 deck.
Indeed. If you want to provide bias-free data, this is the suggested approach:
1: Decide you’re going to log the result of a pack you’re about to open, no matter what
2: Open the pack
3: Log the result
Since the Masterpiece Collection is getting so little love, I assume that booster crafting will be the next place to spend jewels.
You think booster crafting will involve jewels? I’m sure they’ve said in the past that they were planning on introducing some new currency for booster crafting [citation needed]. Whatever they finally come up with, I can’t see me being able to trade in my 50 Hitchclaw Recluses for jewels.
The word they used was tokens and that there were going to be legacy and standard tokens, so in fact two new currencies.