Lucky Cards

When: limited-time and recurring, without a fixed fortnightly rhythm. Rolled out to servers 3, 5 and 6 from April 17, 2026 and everywhere else from April 24. What it is: you spend Lucky Tickets to flip face-down cards, hunting one reward you nominated before the round. Why it matters: the most efficient energy core source in the game, and energy cores are the bottleneck on red gear. One documented run produced 430 energy cores — enough to take a gold gear piece to red with material left over.

The short version¶

Nominate your Wish Reward before flipping. Late game, that is energy cores.
Clear every daily task while the event runs — tasks are your ticket supply.
Flip until you hit the Wish Reward; that ends the round.
Skip a bad round early — skipping gets cheaper the more cards you have already revealed.
Watch for multiplier cards — 2x and 4x stack additively into 6x.
Every ticket spent is a milestone point, so no ticket is truly wasted.
Empty your ticket stock before the event ends.

How a round actually works¶

Each round contains 10 rewards: 9 drawn randomly, plus 1 Wish Reward you choose.

Draws are without replacement within a round. Every card you turn over removes that reward from the pool, which means your odds on the remaining cards improve as you go. The drop chance for any pool is its weight divided by the total remaining weight, recalculated after every draw.

Revealing the Wish Reward ends the round immediately — whether it comes up on your first flip or your last.

Flip cost rises within a round. The deeper you go without finding your Wish Reward, the more each additional card costs.

This is the opposite of Carnival Night's Balloon Shoot, where shot costs stay flat. Players who learn one event's economics and assume the other works the same way consistently misjudge how hard to push. See Carnival Night.

Example pool weights from one instance: Pool 1 = 200, Pool 2 = 75, Pool 3 = 80, Pool 4 = 92, Pool 5 = 30, Pool 6 = 30, Wish Reward = 18. The Wish Reward is the rarest thing in the round by a wide margin, which is exactly why flip costs escalate.

The mechanic most players miss: skipping¶

You can skip to the next round early, and the more cards you have already revealed, the cheaper the skip becomes.

This changes the whole event. A round that has gone badly is not something you have to grind out — once you are deep enough that the skip is cheap and the remaining flips are expensive, skipping is often better value than continuing. Reset and start a fresh round at base flip cost.

The instinct to "finish what you started" is wrong here. Compare the cost of the next flip against the cost of the skip and take the cheaper path.

Multiplier cards¶

Some cards are multipliers — 2x and 4x — applied to the next reward. They stack additively: 2x plus 4x gives 6x, not 8x.

If you turn over a multiplier, that is a reason to keep flipping in that round even if you were thinking about skipping. A 6x on a good pool is the single biggest payout the event produces.

Nothing is wasted¶

Every ticket spent counts as 1 progress point toward milestone rewards. So even a round that produces nothing you wanted still advances your milestone track. This is the reason to flip out your remaining tickets before the event closes rather than saving them.

Choosing your Wish Reward¶

Late game — energy cores, without much argument. Energy cores drive gear promotion, and promotion gates the gold-to-red breakthrough. Nothing else you can nominate has the same effect on your combat power. See Hero Gear.

Early game the calculus is looser — gems, speed-ups and resources all matter more while your gear is still purple.

Stay with your choice. The event rewards concentration. Swapping targets between rounds because a different prize looked appealing is how players finish with a scattering of things they did not need.

Ticket supply¶

Tickets come from daily tasks during the event, and from paid top-up chips.

Daily tasks are the whole engine here. Clear every one, every day the event runs. If you have been banking actions — upgrades, training batches, gear work — this is a reasonable place to cash some in, because task completion converts directly into flips.

What you walk away with¶

Beyond the Wish Reward, flipped cards pay out their own contents as you go: gems, multipliers and assorted resources. A single documented run produced 430 energy cores plus a four-figure gem payout on the side.

Why 430 energy cores matters: that is roughly one gold gear piece pushed to red, with surplus toward the next. For most accounts, one good Lucky Cards run is worth more combat power than several weeks of ordinary play.

Common mistakes¶

Flipping before nominating. The Wish Reward is the whole event. Choose deliberately.

Grinding out a bad round. Skipping gets cheaper as you reveal more. Compare next-flip cost against skip cost.

Skipping right after a multiplier. The multiplier applies to your next reward. Use it first.

Treating it like Carnival Night. Flip costs escalate here. They do not there.

Skipping daily tasks during the event. Tasks are tickets. Tickets are the event.

Finishing with tickets in hand. Every ticket is a milestone point even if the flip disappoints. Spend them all.