Expedition Reward Structure discussion: fairly low risk, but also low reward?

The cost of embarking is either 400 Riot Coins or 4000 crystals, the equivalent of one champion wildcard. We were made aware at the start by devs that the minimum payout would be a random champion card - so, if your goal is complete colection, entering the expedition is essentially free.

While this is great for players worried about trying the game mode out, the reward I got for 14 wins - a Champion Capsule and 4000 crystals back - is not all that enticing; Sure, you essentially get a free champion capsule, but the probability of that is so low that I feel like it's underwhelming, despite it being among the best pack-equivalents the game has to offer.

So, to sum up, I feel like the mode would be more rewarding if the maximum payout was higher, even if it would necessitate lowering the minimum - tough that might be a hard sell. What do you all think? And also, is the reward capped at 7 wins from one trial, or do they sum up when you get both trials to the highest posible score? (I'm still unclear on that last one)

I don't think you consider that you may continue your run if you don't lose 2 in a row. That's a huge advantage among other games' arena modes. Also you didn't mention but there is also a huge experience reward after you complete your expedition. The real reward is those experiences because of the economy of the Legends of Runeterra.

I mean, I'm sure they balance the rewards around the stuff which I mentioned above. If you can go like 1 win and 1 lose you can complete your run with 14 wins and 14 loses. Which card game around rewards you in an arena mode with 14 loses ? This is a huge advantage in my opinion.

You are collecting cards by collecting experience points in this game. Not with buying card packs or sth like that. Even Daily quests are giving experience as rewards. Regional rewards are so high and expeditions helps you to get experiences + other rewards at the same time.

Don't compare the rewarding and economy system with Hearthstone or any other game. This game's economy model is unique to itself. As I said above, The real rewards are not shards or the champion cards. The reward is experience.

I got 1500 experience after 7 wins in first and 1 wins at second trial. I got 1 champion card + Diamond Chest + 3500 shards +1500 experience after first trial + 100 experience after second trial and also I got 1750 experience from my 7 wins and 25 experience from a lose at first trial + 250 experience from my second trial's win + 50 experience losing 2 games at second trial. That's total of 3675 experiences.

After an expedition run, My region tree jumped 3 rewards which is a huge reward. So don't underestimate the experience reward of the Expeditions.

So the point is, Experiences are almost the most important thing in this game. You are collecting shards + wildcards + weekly vaults by collecting experience points. Keep that in mind.

TL;DR, I think rewards are good and don't underestimate experience point rewards.