6 or more vampires? And other Arena thoughts

shteev
shteev Posts: 2,031 Chairperson of the Boards
edited May 2017 in MtGPQ General Discussion
Is this really the intended objective for Liliana 2's Arena level?
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  • span_argoman
    span_argoman Posts: 751 Critical Contributor
    That objective is named Sorin's Fight.
  • EDHdad
    EDHdad Posts: 609 Critical Contributor
    Something something you wouldn't want to play with the same boring decks.  Something something
  • Laeuftbeidir
    Laeuftbeidir Posts: 1,841 Chairperson of the Boards
    Maybe the responsible person for the objective was a 14 year old girl who finally finished the twilight series.
    Maybe the decision was made by an ape, clearly under the influence of psychodelic substances.
    Maybe its just random from black nodes of older events..
    The only thing obvious is : whoever decides the objectives of this event doesn't know or care about the roles of the planeswalkers at all, and doesn't know or care about the 100% negative feedback of the community.

    This objective isn't even hard at all, it just doesn't fit to the spirit of lili 2.
  • voodoo_gremlin
    voodoo_gremlin Posts: 61 Match Maker
    What the hell D3? 
    Vampires for the zombie planeswalker? Do you even proof your events anymore?
  • wereotter
    wereotter Posts: 2,070 Chairperson of the Boards
    That plus the Garruk objective is lots of supports, I think they didn't update objectives since the Sorin/Tezzeret Planeswalker arena. Though I gotta say, I like it. Makes you actually think about the deck you're putting together. Makes it so every Liliana deck isn't a clone of each other. 
  • madwren
    madwren Posts: 2,259 Chairperson of the Boards
    Maybe they listened to our pleas for them to change up the objectives. They are very good trolls.
  • Laeuftbeidir
    Laeuftbeidir Posts: 1,841 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited May 2017
    wereotter said:
     I think they didn't update objectives since the Sorin/Tezzeret Planeswalker arena.
    That's actually a good point, and if they're busy all day long getting rid of the bugs we've faced.. Understandable and a good thing.
    Since the communication is meh, again, we'll have to guess.
    The lili decks I've faced until now all looked the same by the way, and nearly exactly as mine
  • wereotter
    wereotter Posts: 2,070 Chairperson of the Boards
    I changed up my Liliana to summon vampires... maybe I'm alone in this ;)
  • Laeuftbeidir
    Laeuftbeidir Posts: 1,841 Chairperson of the Boards
    I did so, too.
    One spell, the maximum of supports and the rest vampires - but there are not so many useful vamps you could choose from, so the result are comparable decks :D
  • EDHdad
    EDHdad Posts: 609 Critical Contributor
    I haven't seen one Liliana summon one vampire, not even a Kalitas, who would actually have some synergy with Liliana.  Or an Olivia, which people can't seem to help jamming into all of their black and red decks.

    The difference between placing #300 (out of a 500 player bracket?) and #51 is 2 yellow things and 2 purple things, so I don't think too many people are going to go out of their way to optimize their deck.

    I'm fine with this if it means they're working extra hard on Amonkhet or something.  But I have long felt that secondary objectives in this game are chosen at random, possibly using blindfolded chimpanzees throwing darts at scrabble boards, but more likely, a less scientific method.
  • damonsteine
    damonsteine Posts: 47 Just Dropped In
    That Liliana vampire objective.

    And summon 4 or more creatures for a pw whose 3 abilities are all about token creatures, wow!
  • Dsagent
    Dsagent Posts: 73 Match Maker
    Believe me ignoring the optional objectives is the key to happiness.
  • morgue427
    morgue427 Posts: 783 Critical Contributor
    either way 6 in and enraged match is hard as heck guess
     they want to make sure not many get perfect scores this time
  • Steeme
    Steeme Posts: 784 Critical Contributor

    morgue427 said:
    either way 6 in and enraged match is hard as heck guess
     they want to make sure not many get perfect scores this time

    Right.  It's already a bit of work to hard-cast 6 zombies in an enraged match, so why make it vampires?
  • julianus
    julianus Posts: 188 Tile Toppler
    Steeme said:

    Right.  It's already a bit of work to hard-cast 6 zombies in an enraged match, so why make it vampires?
    Based on Wereotter's observation, I don't think they actively chose to make it anything. Most likely they assigned the new PWs to a pre-existing event template and didn't even think (care?) to look at the objectives.
  • THEMAGICkMAN
    THEMAGICkMAN Posts: 697 Critical Contributor
    They should really have 1 or 2 people who no matter what are responsible for keeping current events going well, and they frequent these forums to see what we think as well as going and playing the events as well. That'd make things soooooo much better. We can dream right? 
  • AngelForge
    AngelForge Posts: 325 Mover and Shaker
    It's probably a mistake, but I like it! :-)

    Reached it once so far only, but still it's quite entertaining.
  • Lagartha
    Lagartha Posts: 186 Tile Toppler
    I've got my 8 cheapest vampires, Behold the Beyond and Journal in there. My deck is undefeated on objectives and everything so far. XP

    It may be ridiculous, and is probably a mistake, but with how terrible the rewards are for the amount of effort the event requires, it's kind of fun to just go all-out ridiculous for once. 
  • Sirchombli
    Sirchombli Posts: 322 Mover and Shaker
    These events seem to always involve an objective that your walker wasn't designed for. Like play a bunch of vampires with a walker that says zombie everywhere. Enjoy! 

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