Appreciate the feedback. As always, we continue to look at both player feedback as well as data on the participation and impact of these events and use that information to inform our future designs.
There are a lot of different players who want different things. Some people enjoy a more de-powered environment that feels more casual like the Ravnica - Guild Battle event, while others want to do overpowered and broken things like in Omniscience draft. Some people don't like deckbuilding and feel locked out of an event if they don't have a deck that feeds into an emblem, while others enjoy a brewing challenge and are looking for that type of environment specifically.
We have to strike a balance and understand every event isn't for everyone. I would rather have a bunch of events where some people hated some and loved others but everyone found at least one they loved, rather than events that everyone felt "meh" about.
We also offer these event rewards later in part for this reason, so you can choose to use gold or gems on them rather than play in an event if that is your preference.
We went with the Treasure Constructed event for this in particular for several reasons:
- This Plane-cation week was Ixalan, which fit well with Treasure since that mechanic debuted in Ixalan.
- It performed well in a previous no-entry event which awarded card styles.
- It strikes a good balance between bringing your regular deck vs. being able to brew to it -- essentially every deck benefits from the mana acceleration, so you can bring your normal deck -- but if you want to brew toward it by playing into the Treasure theme and/or throwing some extra off-color cards in that might catch your opponent by surprise, you can do so.
- The above balance benefits from events like this where losses don't hurt you.
If this event isn't for you, fair enough. As I said, we'll keep reading feedback and looking at data and figure out if/when we should offer various events. Whatever play modes you choose to spend your time in MTG Arena on, we want and hope you to have fun. :)
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