Can we have monthly cards back?

[neme6ix]

Monthly cards: Nay.
Monthly emotes: Maybe.
Monthly skins: Yay.
Monthly keys(rare or above): Hell yeah!

[kevin2hard]

i used to make posts like these back then the devs main excuse is it limits future design (makes life harder for them when making expansion) i guess its just too much work. But from a players standpoint all we wanted was something to make the game feel fresh… yes the expansion is nice and all but after 2 months tops there will be a decline in interest. What monthly cards offer was a purpose for playing the game and keep players coming back without even noticing it takes another 4 months or so for expansion hypuuu!!!

[halcyon98]

I heard about monthly cards but I never knew they were rewarded for free! Maybe we can have then a few times a year, as a surprise even or something of the sort.

[jukeboxery]

Yeah, I’ll be honest; more or less right in my experience.
I remember the taunt week they had, then Bonereaper was introduced; that pumped some more of my time into Duelyst, enjoying that card.

[atheistmantis]

I think that a monthly brand new card would not be doable, as CPG is already trying to make the card pool smaller, somehow, with the rotation, and it’s lot of work to design one, see if it can fit in the game, etc… But some kind of a special monthly thing related to cosmetics (skins but even battlefields and card backs) or other things like keys and gauntlet tickets would be nice.
Or what about a monthly quest? That could also be nice, with a price as valuable as the result achieved (number of victories, damage dealt, and so on…).

[elPatoPoderoso]

I could see this working if cpg took some of the neutrals they design for each expansion and spread them out across a few months. Or if they used monthly cards as a way to do reprints. Or some combination of the 2.

[kevin2hard]

this makes perfect sense … do away with monthly cards give us monthly keys instead

[mmf]

heard about monthly cards but I never knew they were rewarded for free!

You got them based on your end of season division.

[isbee]

Ideas on reinstating monthly cards

I have, like many other players, found myself caring less and less about ranking up each month; moreso now that I have a complete collection. Sure, there is the incentive to bank for the next expansion, but the lack of new monthly cards really took the drive to play down a few notches. So my query be this: is there a way to bring back some variation of new monthly cards? I have a couple ideas, and I’ll share one here. What if the monthly cards were released in a separate craftable set and not…

Some more ideas…

[excogitator]

While we’re on the subject of reminessing about past features,can we have bi-weekly balance patches back? Those were great and totally achievable, since they did it in the past.

/s

[epicflygon]

Can we also have 2 draw back?

[galaxydueler]

Can we have Mana burn back

[epicflygon]

That is a good one!

[longshot405]

If I’m not mistaken, monthly cards were done away with because they were redirecting their design efforts into doing full sets more frequently. They’ve been sticking to their promise, so I don’t see an issue here.

Furthermore, we run into another issue. If CPG were to make monthly cards again, where would they go? Now that we have set rotations to worry about, would the cards go into the most recent set? Or would they go into the core set? If we put them into the core set, it may get too inflated and create balance problems.

I don’t have the answers, but I don’t see a need for monthly cards anymore. Other monthly rewards would be totes cool, though.

Also, @kevin2hard and @atheistmantis we already have monthly keys given for completing 15 quests each month.

[colexiel]

Personally I’m cool with not getting monthly cards, quarterly expansions float my boat just right

[atheistmantis]

Oh right, I actually forgot about them… But yeah some kind of monthly juicier reward would be nice, like keys for cooler crates, for example.

[longshot405]

I do agree that the key is not enough to keep me playing each month. The only thing that gets me to play anymore are boss battles or the occasional itch (like once every other week or so).

[tsevech]

It’s exactly my point. Having monthly keys would be nice, but new cards were important to keep my interest high and fine-tune the meta when things are a little bit out of control. See Nightwatcher when Rush was too popular.

I was expecting this to be more appreciated though, I remind a lot of people complained when monthly cards were removed. Apparently something has changed since then

[trulster]

Many players quit since the time of monthly cards, so newbies have no clue how cool the monthly meta shake-up and expectation were.

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