Meltdown Format

[Gondorian]

Is it coming in next 14 days?

No comment.

[FDL]

Cool stuff!

Quick Meltdown - you get 4 packs to make a deck, you build your deck and face a random opponent who also got 4 packs. At the end, you do not keep the cards. It is 100% free.

Will this be a Best of 3 or build one deck, play one game then start over? Is it Ranked (or does it rank into account when matchmaking)? Can we play custom Meltdown games?

Tournament Meltdown - you buy 4 packs to enter with your SC, you build the deck, you play the tournament and you keep your cards (and prizes).

8 players? Best-of-3s?

Really looking forward to trying this!

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There will be two versions:

Quick Meltdown - you get 4 packs to make a deck, you build your deck and face a random opponent who also got 4 packs. At the end, you do not keep the cards. It is 100% free.

Tournament Meltdown - you buy 4 packs to enter with your SC, you build the deck, you play the tournament and you keep your cards (and prizes).

This sounds awesome!

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As for tips, I've never played this format, but from playing plenty of successful booster draft Mtg in my time, shouldn't the "tip" be basically keeping the best Hero and using all the best cards you get, since there are no restrictions??

[GR3NADE]

Warr:
I know, I own iPhone 4. There were cases we played on our iDevices older version of SE (I know f.e. last one - the foils update - wulven waited to apple and than released to web version). Change question to "Is it going to be send to Apple's aproval in next 14 days?" and it's the same.

[Martin JF]

Warr:
I know, I own iPhone 4. There were cases we played on our iDevices older version of SE (I know f.e. last one - the foils update - wulven waited to apple and than released to web version). Change question to "Is it going to be send to Apple's aproval in next 14 days?" and it's the same.

They usually don't mention stuff like that. Its probably a good thing, all things concidered.

[Nickey293]

Great news indeed.

[Gondorian]

As for tips, I've never played this format, but from playing plenty of successful booster draft Mtg in my time, shouldn't the "tip" be basically keeping the best Hero and using all the best cards you get, since there are no restrictions??

Well, define "best"! The trick is working out which cards are most powerfui in a format where everyone is making decks from just 4 opened packs.

[asianskunk5]

There will be two versions:

Quick Meltdown - you get 4 packs to make a deck, you build your deck and face a random opponent who also got 4 packs. At the end, you do not keep the cards. It is 100% free.

Tournament Meltdown - you buy 4 packs to enter with your SC, you build the deck, you play the tournament and you keep your cards (and prizes).

Something tells me that the Quick version will see exponentially more use. I think it might even take over the normal game.

[FDL]

Something tells me that the Quick version will see exponentially more use. I think it might even take over the normal game.

Yeah. That's a totally awesome free game.