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The unfortunate fact is that MTGPQ has a few pitfalls which can drastically worsen a new player’s play experience. The ones to highlight are:
* Spending your in-game currency on obtaining the wrong cards
* Levelling your [[Portal:Planeswalkers|planeswalker ]] too quickly or levelling the wrong planeswalker
* Moving up the Colour Mastery tiers too quickly
* The ‘Wall’
Always bear in mind that your chances of victory will be influenced by a multitude of factors. These include your [[card ]] collection, your [[Portal:Planeswalkers|planeswalker ]] collection, your Colour Mastery tier, your opponents and RNGesus. The main factors you can control are your card and planeswalker collection, and your Colour Mastery tier.
With that in mind, we will first cover the significance of the distinction between [[Standard]] and [[Legacy]], followed by suggestions how to spend your in-game currencies, an overview on Colour Mastery, and what the ‘Wall’ is. Hopefully after reading through the next few sections, you will understand why the aforementioned points are pitfalls and how to avoid them. That will then be followed by looking at the value of spending money in this game and some useful statistics on card drop rates to round off the general areas one should know about in MTGPQ.
=== What should I spend on? ===
==== Crystals {{crystals}}====
When players ask what they should be spending on, they are typically asking about what to spend their Crystals on. Whether to spend on [[Card|cards ]] or [[Portal:Planeswalkers|planeswalkers ]] first, and which set to focus on getting cards from. There are varying opinions on what to spend on first, but I’ll set out my personal recommendations as follows:
# If you don’t have a decent collection of cards to work with, having strong planeswalkers will not help you all that much. So at the very beginning, focus on procuring cards first. Also coalition events usually have secondary objectives which are better achieved by cards from the latest set. Coupled with the power creep in the game, it is typically better to be purchasing cards from the latest set (or two).
== Timetable ==
* New [[Portal:Planeswalkers|planeswalkers ]] are added to the Vault on Thursdays at 08:00 UTC* New [[Card pack#Pack types|Elite Packs ]] are added to the Vault on Tuesdays at 08:00 UTC* Both [[Training Grounds ]] start/end each day at 11:00 UTC
(Check the MtGPQ Sneak Peek thread for this month in [https://forums.d3go.com/categories/mtgpq-events this forum] for official information)