MTG's JumpStart, which was announced earlier this year, is finally releasing and coming to MTG Arena this week!
The set is the best parts of constructed and limited formats being fused together into one product. With JumpStart, you'll open up a couple of specialized booster packs and merge them together to create a deck that is instantly playable. There are 46 different themed boosters with 121 different lists of cards spread throughout them. Here's how it's all going to work in MTG Arena since we won't be buying booster boxes.
- A limited-time event runs starting July 16 and ending August 16.
- The entry fee into the event is 400 Gems or 2000 Gold.
- You'll enter and choose a theme out of a selection of 3. You'll repeat this process a second time.
- You may resign at any time to pick new bundles of cards to play with, retiring your current deck.
- All cards you get from the bundles go into your collection, including the unique lands.
- JumpStart cards are all Historic legal.
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I'm really looking forward to JumpStart arriving later this week. Since the set was announced, I've been super pumped to play since it is such an easy way to have fun in Magic.
I'm just curious why this is only being run as a seemingly 1-time event. I understand that if it was always active, it might be really long queues a few weeks in, but the big appeal of JumpStart where you can hop right into a game (hopefully with a friend too) feels like its being abandoned. With such an easy way to get people into Magic, it seems silly to dump it.
We'll likely see it return again in the future though, and maybe this is just Wizards testing the waters to see if it would be worth keeping around for a longer period of time, but I just wish they would have communicated that :P
Don't know the history of Arena too well but there are a lot of play modes. I wonder if things like Brawl started out as a limited time event.
Yeah, a couple of months ago it started off as being "Wednesday Brawls", aka you could only queue for brawl matches on Wednesday, and the only other times you could be by direct challenging someone. WotC then got the brilliant idea of charging people 10k gold to give them permanent access to a Brawl queue for a month or two. Once the Coronavirus started getting taken seriously in the US, WotC decided to open up the queue for free and just recently decided to keep it free forever.
They've had a different 'rotation of game modes' in the past, like Artisan, Omniscience Draft, Momir Vig, and the super fun Momir Vig Oko Edition, so it would not surprise me if Jumpstart joins that special group of formats.