View source for Winter Magic 2022

=== Introduction ===

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The avaricious Boblin is eager to expand his business even more as the season of miracles, presents, and snow approaches. He issues orders to his goblins to delve farther and wider into the frozen earth, setting off a powerful avalanche.
With one exception, the plains are entirely painted white by this dreadful natural force. A fascinating glacier with all the hues of the rainbow glistens among the white, frozen plains.
Boblin and his goblins rush toward the glacier, mesmerized by its beauty, mining and wrecking it. They had no idea that this vibrant ice was more than just a gorgeous adornment.
However, Yetis are aware of this event and are adamant about protecting the ice from rapacious Goblins.

Bring a hot chocolate and your warmest clothes along as you go on this winter expedition with Boblin and Yotoham to discover the mysteries of the strange glacier!


===Quests & Quest Milestones===

The quest line consists of a story section and additional episodic quests, which start as soon as the story is completed. This means that you will be able to finish the first series of quests right away, while later quests have new additions released on a daily basis, allowing you to continue to play one additional event quest on each new event day. 

Solving event quests also comes with additional benefits, as each completed quest brings you closer to reaching one of the Milestones which give you additional rewards simply for reaching them. 

[[File:Winter_Magic2022_quest_progress.png|center]]


=== Event Menu ===
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Each completed quest will give you Postal Keys [[File:Postal_Keys.png|25px]] as a reward and they are automatically added to the Event Menu. With the Postal Keys you can open Postal Boxes to win precious and unique Event Buildings and other items. Opening the Postal Boxes will also grant you Winter Gifts [[File:Winter_Gifts.png|25px]] to progress towards the Grand Prizes, but that's not all! In this years Winter Magic Event, when opening a Postal Box, a Postal Star is added to the Special Powers counter. Once you have gathered the required amount you can then use it activate Special Powers to further turn the odds in your favour! 

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By clicking the Event Menu icon you will access the Event Window which will give you plenty of information and allow you to put the Postal Keys you gathered to use:

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# The time remaining until the event ends.
# The current Grand Prize you are working towards and a preview of the next one to come.
# As you see that you have reached 5/5 Reroll charges, and you want to change your Daily Prize, just press the Reroll button, confirm your choice, and you will see your Daily Prize change for the day!
# Your Daily Exclusive Prize. Hover over the building for its description.
# The amount of Postal Keys [[File:Postal_Keys.png|25px]] you have collected and not yet spent.
# Allows you to buy Postal Keys with Premium currency.
# Displays how many Winter Gifts [[File:Winter_Gifts.png|25px]] have been delivered and shows current progress towards unlocking the Grand Prizes.
# Uli, the new delivery trainee owl: As you hand Winter Gifts from Postal Boxes to Uli. Uli will follow the path to the current Grand Prize.
# Postal Boxes which you can open with Postal Keys to win a reward and obtain Winter Gifts and Postal Stars. 
# Special Powers: "Reveal Two" and "Double Reward" - When the required number of Postal Boxes have been opened, you can use these to reveal two random rewards or double the reward in the next Postal Box opened. "Shuffle" can be activated using Postal Keys whenever you want to get a new set of Postal Boxes.

You can also click the [[File:helpbtto.png|25px]] button to see the help information on the Winter Magic

=== Postal Keys ===

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You start the Winter Magic event with 100 Postal Keys [[File:Postal_Keys.png|25px]] and each Event Quest will give you more as a reward for completing the given tasks. Every day you play during the Event, you will receive a Daily Winter Magic login reward of 30 Postal Keys [[File:Postal_Keys.png|25px]].

[[File:WMagic2021_daily_login.png|center]]

Also, from time to time, you will find more Postal Keys around your city outskirts for you to collect.

[[File:WMagic_City_collect.png|center]]

You can then use the Postal Keys to open Postal Boxes. Additional Postal Keys are unlocked upon reaching the second and fourth Quest Milestone. 

Remember that the Winter Magic event only lasts for a few weeks, and after that you will no longer be able to use your Postal Keys to open Postal Boxes and earn awesome rewards, so don't waste time!

=== Postal Boxes ===

Each day the Winter Magic Event starts with a total of 16 locked Postal Boxes that are just waiting for you to open them using Postal Keys. At the start of each day, you will be presented with a new selection of rewards hidden within the Postal Boxes. To give you an idea of what you can win, the rewards are visible at first but you must "Shuffle" them before you open the doors to claim them.
 
[[File:WMagic2020_Postal_boxes.png|650px|center]]
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You can activate a manual "Shuffle" at any point in time, given you have the required 45 Postal Keys.

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Use your Postal Keys to open a Postal Boxes. Each one will give you a Winter Gift plus one of many different rewards like the changing Daily Exclusives, Instants, Knowledge Points, Rune Shards, special Buildings or more Postal Keys.


{|align="center" cellpadding="1" width="100%"
|style="background-color:#af895f;|'''Hint:'''If you have already found the prizes you were looking for, using the Shuffle button to get a new set of closed doors might be a good strategy.
|}
====Special Powers====
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Each time you open a Postal Box, 1 Postal Star is added to the Special Powers counter. Once you have gathered the required amount you can then use the respective Power to further increase your odds!

{| style="text-align=center"|style="background-color:#af895f;
!colspan="2" align="center"|There are 3 Special Powers you can use:
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|[[File:wintermagic2020_special1.png]]
|'''Reshuffle''' - At the cost of 45 Postal Keys it presents you with new rewards, closes all previously opened Postal Boxes and allows you to "shuffle" them again.
|-
|[[File:wintermagic2020_special2.png]]
|'''2x''' - Doubles up the rewards in the next Postal Box that is opened after activation.
|-
|[[File:wintermagic2020_reveal.png]]
|'''Magnifier''' - Shows the contents of two, as yet unopened, Postal Boxes.
|}

{|align="center" cellpadding="1" width="100%"
|style="background-color:#af895f;|'''Please Note:'''You cannot continue to collect additional Postal Stars if a Special Power is ready to use. Only after a Power has been used will the counter start increasing again with each new door opened.
|}

====Winter Gifts====
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Each time you open a Postal Box, you will be rewarded with a Winter Gift. If you have used the "2x" Special Power previously, you will even receive two Winter Gifts.

Every Postal Box you open also contains a Winter Gift that Uli, the delivery owl, will deliver to your citizens. Once Uli delivered a total of 20 Winter Gifts, the next Grand Prize is unlocked for you.

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===Rewards===
====Evolving Building====
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A new Evolving Building is available in the Winter Magic Event: the Chromafrost Glacier! Your Evolving building can be evolved through 10 stages to increase its power. 

{| style="text-align: center"
|[[File:A_Evt_Evo_December_XXII_Chromafrost_Glacier10_1.png|400px|center|Chromafrost Glacier]]
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The Chromafrost Glacier provides Culture, Population and produces Refined Goods +2 as standard production. From stage 4 upwards your Evolving Building will produce Basic Ascended Goods +1 (depending on the Chapter) and on higher stages, Knowledge Points will be added to the production. As it evolves, you will receive higher amounts of these resources!

For more information on Evolving Buildings, go to our [[Evolving_Buildings|'''dedicated page on the topic''']].
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====Royal Prize Pass====
The Royal Prize Pass is an additional feature, which can accompany any regular Event in Elvenar.

[[File:Prizepass_new_WM22.png|750px|center]]

For every event step completed, you will make a step towards the next Grand Prize, and an additional Prize within the Royal Prize Pass!

In the Grand Prizes window, available from the Event screen if the Event is using the mechanic, you can see the upcoming event prizes that are waiting for you to be unlocked.
Here, for every step earned from collecting Event Currency, you can unlock one of the event Grand Prizes, among which you can find various high-rarity instants, Artifacts, and so on.

The Royal Prize Pass adds Royal Grand Prizes, which can be collected with the regular Grand Prizes.
The Royal Prize lane becomes available with purchasing the Royal Prize Pass and you can do so at any time in the event! For this event, the exclusive building that will be granted with the purchase of the Royal Prize pass is the Vibrant Village!

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====Grand Prizes====

The Grand Prizes Line is always the most appealing one, as this is where you can win and gather the necessary Artifacts to evolve your Evolving Building to the next stage!

[[File:Winter_Magic22_Artifact.png|center|200px]]

Grand Prizes include the Chromafrost Glacier Artifact, which allows you to evolve your Chromafrost Glacier to the next stage. See [[Evolving_Buildings|'''Evolving Buildings''']] for more information on the evolution process.

For every 20 Winter Gifts delivered you can collect the next available Grand Prize, which can be a Chromafrost Glacier Artifact or a unique and exclusive item such as an exclusive Portrait that is not available anywhere else in the game!

[[File:WM2022_Portrait.png|center]]

It is also in the Grand Prizes line that two new Tomes will be available for you: 

* Tome of the Plentiful - You can choose whether to receive a quantity of Orcs, Mana, Seeds or Unurium (available when 200 Winter Gifts are delivered).
* Tome of Frozen Goods - You can choose whether to receive one of 3 brand new Expiring Buildings or Boosted Precious Ascended Goods (available when 240 Winter Gifts are delivered), [[Winter_Magic_2022#Expiring_Buildings|'''check out the bottom of the page to know more about the new Expiring Buildings''']].


If you wish to know more about available Tomes, please visit the [[Enchantments#Sorceries|'''Sorceries dedicated article''']]! 

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====Daily Prizes====
Each day, you will have a chance to win a Daily Exclusive Prize from Postal Boxes. This year, you can once again see some buildings from previous events but also 2 brand new buildings.

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center"
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! Fragile Bubble !! Brisk Market 
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|[[File:A_Evt_December_XXII_Fragile_Bubble1_1_0012.png|center|200px]]||[[File:A_Evt_December_XXII_Brisk_Market1_1_0012.png|center|200px]]
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|[[File:Culture.png|30px|Culture]] + [[File:Mana.png|30px|Mana]]||[[File:Populationadd.png]] + [[File:Culture.png|30px|Culture]] + [[File:Sg1up.png|Basic Sentient Goods]]
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|colspan="2"|'''Please note :''' Resources depend on the chapter you are currently in, if the described resource is not yet available, you will receive another resource instead.
|-
|}


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After collecting the Daily Exclusive rewards and Grand Prizes, you will find them in your Inventory[[File:Inventory_icon_normal.png|50px]]
{|align="center" cellpadding="1" width="100%"
|style="background-color:#af895f;|'''Please note:''' All building values and effects depend on the chapter you are in at the time you add the buildings to your Inventory.'''
|}
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====Building Set====

Do you remember the first ever Building Set? Or have you heard of it and really wanted to have this wonderful Set in your city?! Now you can! 
In this event, placed in the Daily Prizes during the several days of the event, Royal Prize Pass and Grand Prizes Line, are the pieces of the whole Building Set. Be sure to come to the game every day so that you have a real chance of collecting every single building of this Magnificent Set!

[[File:Winter_Set.png|center]]

The Buildings that belong to this Set are: Ice Mountain Troll, Orc Vortex, Giants Hand and Frozen Fountain! If you wish to know more about this and other Buildings Sets, [[Building Set|'''Please visit the dedicated page to the subject''']]

====Expiring Buildings====
This year, the Winter event releases 3 new Expiring Buildings but these will only be accessible by obtaining the Tome of Frozen Goods Sorcery which is only available when you reach the 240 Winter Gifts delivery milestone!

You can only choose one of these buildings, if you wish to know more about the Sorceries, [[Enchantments#Sorceries|'''please visit the Sorceries dedicated article''']]!

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center"
!Cryomana !! Cryoseeds !! Cryonurium
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|[[File:A_Evt_December_XXII_Cryomana1_1_0012.png|120px]]||[[File:A_Evt_December_XXII_Cryoseeds1_1_0012.png|120px]]||[[File:A_Evt_December_XXII_Cryonurium1_0012.png|120px]]
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|[[File:ManaDecay.png|Reduces Mana Decay]]||[[File:SeedDecay.png|Reduces Divine Seeds Decay]]||[[File:Unurium_decay.png|Reduces Unurium Decay]] 
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|colspan="3"|'''Hint:''' If you wish to know more about Expiring Buildings, [[Expiring Buildings|'''please visit the dedicated page to the subject''']]
|}
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As usual in this year Winter Magic event, when you reach the last milestone reward, you will receive a brand new Expiring Building: The Goddess of Wishes grants you a random reward every 12 hours.

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