ICR Duplicate protection for events
Really need to place duplicate protection on ICR's received from FNM events etc. There's no reason these should give duplicates, especially as the game continues to grow there's always some rares that folks are going to need. I mean I get making money, but come on this is just kind of a slap in the face.
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Kassapa#71305 commented
Credit where Credit is due: Even though my first ICR for the Alchemy Slowdown Midweek Madness event was an umpteenth copy of Paladin Class, my second ICR was a copy of Jerren, Corrupted Bishop.
And I have to give you props, it was awesome to get a jank mythic as a reward for a silly, free to play event. I'm just exhultant that I won't have to spend Wildcards to have FUN, and can experiment with a niche mythic without husrting my posibilities of playing constructed.
So thank you. This was pretty great.
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Kassapa#71305 commented
Today while playing the painful RNG-Fiesta that is Momir Madness, I was rewarded for my dice-rolling efforts with a Graven Lore and Skeletal Swarming - Both of which I have full playsets of.
I understand the idea behind the Midweek Madness events is partially to get new players invested in the game, and that's why you have Standard-Legal cards as rewards. But think about this:
- You are deincentivizing players who already have large collections from playing in the Madness Queue, which results in longer queue times for those players and thus a worse player experience, which may discourage them from playing altogether
- If it feels bad for invested, veteran grinders to receive copies of cards we already have, how bad would that feel for a new player?
Make ICRs Duplicate Protected, and if you fear the influx of 40 gems will break the economy, expand the pool of ICRs to Historic if the player already has all the cards in Standard.
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Kassapa#71305 commented
There are 222 Rares I have 0 copies of, but today my first ICR for the Midweek Madness event was an n-th (Where n>4) Dire-Strain Rampage.
Should the reward pool be limited to standard, there are 124 rares (Not counting mythics) that I'm still missing to complete a full playset.
And yet, you choose to be stingy. For shame, WotC. For shame. -
Kassapa#71305 commented
Today I played in the Midweek Madness event, and got two rares I already had a full playset of.
It could've stung more, at least none of the ICRs were Duplicate Mythics.
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Kassapa#71305 commented
With the staggering number of cards in arena, the ever increasing pace at which sets and "supplemental products" are added, and the Scrooge McDuck level of stinginess that the Arena Economy sports, it's inadmissible to have ICRs not be Dupe Protected.
Every time I receive a Duplicate, I'll endeavor to remind you it is only driving people away from the game. Happy New Year!
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Melitius#55858 commented
I'm having an issue where I'll get a duplicate card that I already have four of, but it won't count towards vault progress, and is entirely wasted.