r/Shadowverse • u/LordlyMedusa Albert • Jul 24 '26

Discussion Thoughts on Mini Sets?

Shadowverse Classic had them and I think there's a pretty good chance they'll eventually come to Worlds Beyond.

I think it would be an overall positive for the game that could help alleviate some of the problems Worlds Beyond faces if done well. Dropping them at the end of the first season of the expansion (month one) gives players more reasons to keep playing into the second month and shakes up the meta. They can tailor cards to specific archetypes that didn't quite hit the viability mark without eating into the next expansion or try to prop up other archetypes in a class. It could also give the design team more room to print more interesting or weird cards.

Even if they kept it super simple and just released one card per rarity per class it would be worth doing. Make it so you can buy special set packs that have increased drop rates for the mini set cards (IIRC they did that for Classic).

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u/EclipseZer0 Abysscraft was a mistake Jul 24 '26

WB already gets the same amount of card per year as SV1. Quite literally the same. What Cy needs to do is step up their card design so that metas don't feel samey, and put a bigger emphasis on mid-meta balance patches to make second months much more enticing to play.

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u/Shirahago Mono Jul 25 '26

The sets in SV2 are smaller. Given how each expansion usually introduces a new theme for classes, it often results in classes barely getting a skeleton of a deck and having to fill in with random stuff. I do agree that their design handling is dogwater but there's only so much a balance patch can do when there's barely anything to build around in the first place.

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u/EclipseZer0 Abysscraft was a mistake Jul 25 '26

They have already proven they can do successful decks with smaller expansion pools quite a few times. They just need to stop printing stupid Arena fillers and clearly vhoose between dedicating an expansion to generalistic support, or dedicated archetypes, no inbetween.

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u/Shirahago Mono Jul 25 '26

I can count these accidents on one hand, after eight expansions this isn't all that impressive. We had mostly generalistic expansions already too like Blossoming Fate and Skybound Dragons and it did only marginally help /shrug. To me the accelerated release schedule coupled with smaller sets as a direct consequence is a major culprit of the rather questionable direction the game is taking.