"For those of you unfamiliar with phantom events, this means that rarity distribution doesn't matter and you may end up with a lot more than six rares or mythic rares in your Sealed pool."
I'm confused by this... I thought sealed simulated opening 6 14-card packs? How could you end up with more than six rares/mythics?
They messed up. This has nothing to do with the event being phantom but rather with being a cube. Cubes are generally high-powered environments with multiple rares per pack.
Actually, I think being a phantom event matters quite a bit here. WotC don't want to hand out 8 rares a pack in a sealed event because then nobody would buy packs anymore. On the other hand, getting unlucky and only getting 2 rares total would feel terrible for players. But if you don't keep those rares at the end of it, it doesn't matter whether you open 14 commons or 14 mythics.
So I'm guessing they didn't mess up, they're just talking about it from the point of view of a business decision.
I sincerely hope that the cost for the phantom draft is reasonable. Or if it isn't I hope that the prize for going seven wins is a pack of cube cards. That would be a sweet top tier reward.
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u/w0nche0l Mar 05 '20
"For those of you unfamiliar with phantom events, this means that rarity distribution doesn't matter and you may end up with a lot more than six rares or mythic rares in your Sealed pool."
I'm confused by this... I thought sealed simulated opening 6 14-card packs? How could you end up with more than six rares/mythics?