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The game theory of it all will make that an interesting puzzle. My guess is that the point threshold for top 100 will still settle down close to where it stands now for "normal" events: Unless you're really lucky you naturally end up north of a million if you run the MA enough to 5 star those last few cards.

Now the majority of players know that they can only shoot their shot once every few events (sustainably anyway, I'm sure there are some players sitting on WoF stashes that are big enough for a few events, but so big as to be effectively limitless under the new paradigm.) Before, I would go for 250/100 in the marathon just for the resources--on one terribly unlucky run, I finished 250 and didn't even get both Week 3 cards. My guess is that now most players will half-ass events except on the runs where they're going for the set. This means that top 100 won't drop below the floor set by getting enough MAs to five star everything.

Even if there are fewer than 50 players or so who can still aggressively run every event they throw at us, competition for those other slots might still drive things up as people get pot-committed and decide they can't afford to drop a bracket and lose those prizes.

This event will be interesting as people adjust to the new normal. Also, the prize might count as something as "special" as vandal queen. It's probably not as brute-force powerful, especially for clearing the new maps, but Silence is one of those abilities that can be one of very few effective solutions for specific situations, and this is the first time it's appeared on a card with any survivability at all.