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1 year ago ::
Nov 23, 2011 - 10:33AM
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This is the first launch of a non standard card set that I am interested in since I started playing MTGO and I was wondering what kind of events they hold for these kinds of sets and how long they last usually. The only other set to come out like this sine I started MTGO was the Masters Edition 4 and I didn't pay attention so I can't remember what kind of events there were. Will there be "release" type sealed queues that only cost 24tx? will there be swiss drafts that cost the normal 3 boosters + 2tix or only single elimination type drafts (I hate those because I like to get my money's worth in play time) and will there be 4 booster sealed queues?
If no one knows the exact answer, does anyone remember what it has been like in previous launches like this one?
For a great source of information on the Pauper format check out Pauper's Cage!
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1 year ago ::
Nov 23, 2011 - 11:39AM
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Jul 28, 2011
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Hey Gabochidillo, Here's the link to the current information available about the Masque's pre-release events: www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.a...We don't have any release event details yet. Hope that helps, Dragonette
Monica
Wizards of the Coast Online Community Coordinator
A friendly dragon.
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1 year ago ::
Nov 23, 2011 - 11:41AM
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Here's the link to information about the release events for Urza's Destiny, the most recent classic set release. I assume Masques Block will be similar, but I'm not sure.
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1 year ago ::
Nov 23, 2011 - 12:03PM
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Do we really need a pre-release for a set that is 12 years old?
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1 year ago ::
Nov 23, 2011 - 1:13PM
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Do we really need a pre-release for a set that is 12 years old?
No more than we needed pre-release events for any of the other old classic sets. Though, give how unpopular this block is expected to be, maybe an exception could have been made.
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1 year ago ::
Nov 26, 2011 - 1:00PM
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if people will en masse swarm the PR queues on this one I will lose all faith in humanity
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1 year ago ::
Nov 26, 2011 - 3:52PM
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if people will en masse swarm the PR queues on this one I will lose all faith in humanity
I'm willing to bet they will. I'll bet that the port lottery is going to have a bigger payout than the Jace lottery did.
That'll draw people regardless of how poor the odds of cracking one may be.
DCI Certified Level 2 Judge
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1 year ago ::
Nov 28, 2011 - 8:58AM
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I'd actually be surprised if more than 1 fires. The pre-release card stinks (if it was one of the handful of chase cards, I could actually see all of them firing), the cards inside the packs stink (after Port and Wire, there is very little $$ coming out of these packs), and the events are expensive (30 tix!).
I may be proven wrong, but I think most of us who are actually interested in drafting this block (myself included, if only because I had already quit when this was out in paper), are willing to wait the week to play with mediocre cards that are already overpriced.
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1 year ago ::
Nov 29, 2011 - 8:33AM
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If they think i will pay 30 tix for MM prerelease, they are way wrong.
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1 year ago ::
Nov 29, 2011 - 9:14AM
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Wizards, you made a huge, huge, huge mistake with these Masques pre-release events. Here are your three major mistakes:
1. Pricing. I can attend a paper pre-release at a well-known large card shop in San Jose for $20. I can attend a paper pre-release at any number of lesser known smaller shops for $30. Each of these events pays out at minimum two packs prizes per player (according to your own rules, but most pay out more). That's 8 packs for $30 worst case, or less than $4 per pack, less than retail. Now consider your 20 tix "pre-release" draft events. These events equal out to 4.625 packs per player, or $4.32 per pack. That's MORE than retail. The situation is slightly better for the sealed events, but you made a mistake there too...
2. Your player base for these events is different. A large number of the people who want to draft Masques are people who were playing Magic for at least 12 years, when Masques was originally released in paper. These players are older than your average player. They generally have more commitments and stuff to deal with, and it's difficult for them to sit down 6 consecutive rounds for a game of virtual Magic cards. People are going to skip out on these tourneys just because they are 6 rounds rather than 3 to 4.
3. It's a "pre-release" in name only. The real Masques pre-release was September 25th, 1999. The MTGO "pre-release" comes 4452 days after the real pre-release. If people have already been waiting 4452 days for Masques on MTGO, many will just decide to wait 4457 days instead for the decent events to start.
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