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Now that we’re deep in the depths of the first season here on Wild Cards, it felt like the best time to address some economy-related issues. Some of these have been raised by our community and others have come from the team but all are important to the ecosystem of the game. 

Buckle up, folks, this is a long post…

Matchmaking

We’ve been tinkering behind the scenes to try to improve matchmaking so that you’ll face more real players more often and spend less time waiting in the queue. This should hopefully have already started improving and you should be seeing a difference in this immediately. However, we will be monitoring this closely in case we need to make further tweaks in the future.

Collection Packs

We are lowering the cost of all Collection packs from 60 shards to 50. This will be live today. Result!

New Card Packs

We’ve been keeping a close eye on feedback related to packs with new cards in them and are rolling out a few improvements.

The Amplified pack will be staying exactly as it is. We all love it so if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

The Punk Out pack will now contain 1 Random card, 2 Rares or better and a 25% chance of the new card. This increases the Rare or better slot from 1 to 2, meaning more chances of higher rarity cards.

The Face Off pack will be dropping in price from 75 shards to 50 and the chance of getting the new cards is moving back to 10%. We will also be ensuring that players receive a random Epic card within 7 packs so players are guaranteed to pick up some good stuff along the path to nabbing the new cards.

The Starstruck pack will be changing slightly as we’re switching the 2 random cards to 2 random Fusion ingredients to try to make Fusion cards more accessible and to ensure folks are getting useful stuff as they pursue the new Legendary. This pack will also ensure that you’ll get a random Epic or better within 10 packs.

All of these changes start from tomorrow’s Face Off pack.

Anarchy Pack

In order to bring the relative value of different packs closer to what we intended, we unfortunately need to raise the price of the Anarchy pack from 7500 credits to 10000 credits. This change is mostly about how things play out in relation to higher-rarity cards and we are keen for this pack to remain accessible - especially for newer players. For that reason, we'll be simultaneously increasing the amount of credits you get from your daily login rewards to 10000.

Alongside this change, we also noticed that we’d inadvertently made the shard-to-credit conversion packs a little too good value (whoops). These are being altered to bring them more in-line with what they should have been all along. 

Tier 1 will be staying as it is. Tier 2 will become 275 Shards converts to 100k Credits. Tier 3 will become 600 Shards converts to 250k Credits.

These changes will come into effect from today (Thursday 14 May).

The Cost of Trading

We are lowering the cost of trading from 7500 credits to 5000 credits. Hopefully this makes it easier to swap fusion ingredients, trade for lower rarity cards you don’t yet have and trade more in general!

This change is now live!

Duplicate tier 2 Shinies (and tier 1 Heroes)

We know that this has been a pain point so we’re going for the neatest and most straightforward solution to the problem of “what do I do with my duplicate T2 shinies?” We’re making them tradeable. This also applies to tier 1 and tier 2 shiny Heroes.

However, we don’t want to see any new players accidentally trade away something cool that they’ve just received so this feature will be locked off until players reach level 25. Any players at or above that level will be able to trade T2 shinies to their heart’s content.

This is a slightly trickier condition to add so this change will likely go live some time in June. We’re sorry for the wait on this but we want to get it right so it’s just going to take a little bit of time.

We’re aware that this has been a big wall of text news post but hopefully it has been helpful and we hope that these changes will benefit all in the long run. Ultimately, we want opening different types of packs to feel fun and we’re hoping that these changes will work towards doing that. 

We’d like to thank the community for all of their helpful feedback and input. As always, feel free to jump onto our Discord or Reddit pages to find out more or chat with players and devs alike.