Here me out please people. This idea is only if it was already planned for card to be tourny winner locked forever. Who knows, there might already be plans to not keep the card tourny winner locked.
I know the Lightning card will be for a player that gets top spot in tournament. But I would like to request, and have a possible solution, for the tournament cards to not be kept exclusively to the tournament forever with no way for any other players to ever get in their collection.
I understand the need for a winning card to feel like something special, and this is why I have a solution I hope you guys will consider. I have a couple possible solutions actually. And I am saying this not with the assumption that I won't be able to win one, but even from the viewpoint as someone that did win one if I were lucky enough to. I still would not want that card to be exclusive to certain player or players. As a winner of tournament or loser of tournament, I would not want my fellow TT players to be locked out of a card forever. For me, just being highly ranked after the event, and the currency payout, plus a limited time exclusive period of only very few players having said card, is more than good enough.
I believe the card should be exclusive to those players, but only for a limited time.The only thing that should be permanently exclusive is a higher MGP reward or whatever currency payout, and anything else used aside from the card. Then at a future date, like maybe some months later, release card to everyone using 1 of the 2 following solutions. This way the winners have some time to enjoy being the only ones with the card, but others don't have to feel crushed with the thought of having a missing number in their collection. After the exclusive period, release the card in 1 of these ways...
Solution #1: Make it available in-game somehow, like maybe it has to be bought from the card trader for a huge amount of MGP. I think this solution is best.
OR
Solution #2: Make it available in the cash shop like you guys did with the limited time seasonal items so that players could still get them even though they missed the events. This solution might not be the best since TT cards are not vanity, and therefor could be considered pay to win. So I don't think any of us would like Solution #2.
This would apply to all future tournament cards. Solution 1 seems best. This way the winners still get to enjoy being the sole owners for a while, and those that did not win would just have to wait, but at least will be able to get it one day.
EDIT: No card game rewards a winner with an exclusive card that will affect gameplay, or those players would now have an advantage over others. The only exclusiveness winners usually get is alternative artwork, or some other different version of either an existing card or a new card, but these cards are made available to everyone, except for the artwork or card vanity exclusive to the winners. In example, the winning Lightning cards would have different artwork or some other card vanity different from the version everyone else gets, but the name of card and the gameplay elements like the numbers are the same.