There are many cards that are solely obtained through high tournament rankings and platinum card packs. It isn't limited to Lightning. As such, I wonder why you mentioned Lightning specifically. Anyway, I'm sure that your suggestion is a thought that every serious Triple Triad player has had. But most likely, the opinions are varied. Many would say that it's right to keep some cards locked to "placing in the top 3 in tournaments" so that you need to be good to get them. Others would say that every card should have an alternate way to obtain.


Still, I think that the idea of adding a platinum card pack at the MGP shop would be good. Many a player has too much MGP than they know what to do with, and there's nothing wrong with having some extra places to spend MGP. But I think it would need to be very expensive. 100k MGP for instance. Very expensive considering you're very likely to get yet another copy of the Shiva card and whatnot, but the only alternate way to obtain tournament-unique cards.Or perhaps just putting the cards individually for a million MGP, but I prefer the card pack approach.

This is my point of view on this subject.