[2020] New event: Mountains of Mana (Ikoria showcase styles as a reward!)

Our thought process was pretty straightforward:

• Treasure helps you ramp into giant, crazy stuff.
• Agent scales with how giant and crazy your opponent's stuff is.
• Treasure helps you ramp into Agent - even if you're not playing ramp or playing blue!

This event is supposed to be about doing wild stuff, and having Agent looming over things is a way to make people not want to be so wild. Nothing more than that.

Hmm, that read a little more definitive than I wanted. It's not about forcing everyone to play big stuff - it's just making it feel like a possible choice, since it's thematic for the set. Anyway, we try to save the super-long ban lists for events like Shakeup.

It's a trade-off. Like any limited-time event in any venue, a shorter timeframe can draw people in because it feels more special. Also, more people are playing at once instead of being spread out - queue health is always something we have in mind for specialty events.

As for closing entries, we just want to make sure that anyone entering has enough time to play the games they need. Even if you could enter 5 minutes before the event ended, you wouldn't be able to actually get the prizes.