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(Ideas Needed) Fun Ways to Grind Runes
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bk1234
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Hello!
As the title states -- I'm looking for fun ideas for grinding runes. My Bolas is at 58 which means I need about 65K more to get him to 60. I have already played new NOP like old NOP (with the nastiest legacy decks I could come up with, completely disregarding the existence of objectives), been through heroic encounters with all of my PW (even L2 and L3 -- blech), and cleared Training Grounds Daily.
Is anyone doing anything else, or do you have ideas for a challenge?
Thanks!
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Ohboy
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My theme this week is beginner decks. Hint : G3 is imbal.
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bk1234
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Ohboy
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My theme this week is beginner decks. Hint : G3 is imbal.
What should
I do them in? General heroic encounters?
Also I can't do Koth -- because Invoker is the ONLY uncommon or common I am missing in the entire game ::scowls, pouts, and various related childish things::
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Ohboy
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Well for mining runes there's no substitute for heroic encounters. Unless you really really love TG.
I'm currently trying to complete rotgp with it.
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Zzyzzx
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I agree about Heroic Encounters and have spent more time there that I'm willing to admit.
This mightn't even answer the question, but, theme builds vs. Heroic Encounters have been a source of fun for me.
Lately I've been toying around with both Minotaurs and critter-less non-Ob Nix builds, both Standard.
The former is limiting to only Red/Black but I adore Sarkhan already.
The latter has, for me, been less-than-successful.
I started with Jace I and did fine but couldn't pull it off with a Standard build.
I switched to Saheeli and was less successful in Heroic Encounters but surprisingly dominating in level 3 of the Pharoah-God event without relying on thopters.
Sarkhan was the next attempt but I'd found that he was too dependent on making tokens and that kind of betrayed the whole critter-less thing.
Anyway, just a thought.
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On the legacy PvE events, if you replay one of the final node fights, it gives 200 runes instead of 100. I usually use one of those fights as a pseudo-training grounds, testing decks unless the big bosses. Its a nice challenge, although very frustrating at times
Note: I have not tried this for the Oath events, but I assume it will still hold
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Coilbox
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I guess HE are the fastest way to get those runes... But it's such a grind...
What i would suggest you is... Leave Bolas at 58... In my opinion, its such a MASSIVE amount of runes just to take his last skill to level 4, which is a bit meh... Bring zombies to the battlefield and deal some damage, which if im correct, having 3 zombies in the battlefield would be... 27 hp damage? That you can do it only by cycling 6 cards with faith of the devoted down... and if you also have heaven's drake you get a 12/12 aditional... with so many colors/options available with this PW... the zombies tactic is not really worth it... just my opinion.
Otherwise... be ready to smash your head against Heroic Encounters a million times :P
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bk1234
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I’m playing lord of Extinction so his ult it great to reinforce it.
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James13
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I'm personally enjoying gong back and cleaning out story mode objectives. If you've done it all I guess sitting on heroic with self-imposed handicaps could be entertaining.
Single set only restrictions are my current distraction there.
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ManiiNames
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@bken1234
. I have a lord of extinction (Actually two!!! Go Go RNG) but it always seemed meh for the 21 casting cost. How are you getting good use out of it?
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@ManiiNames
-- I'm pairing it with Lost Legacy in Bolas -- basically I'm using Days Undoing to pull them out and Wildfire Elemental and Baral to push out as many spells and Lost Legacies as possible then I drop Lord of Extinction. I got him up to 100 the other day and was so excited!
Creatures:
Lord of Extinction (B/G, 21 mana)
Wildfire Elemental (R, 21 mana)
Baral, Chief of Compliance (U, 8 mana)
Supports:
Sphinx's Tutelage (U, 6 mana)
Omniscience (U, 17 mana)
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Lost Legacy (B, 12 mana)
Days Undoing (U, 10 mana)
Reason / Believe (U,G, 11 mana)
Grind / Dust (W,B, 13 mana)
Exquisite Firecraft (R, 6 mana)
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morgue427
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honestly dont think i can add a lot but i would grind heroic an hour a day and you will get there, I know not great advice but consistentcy is the key in this game and a lot of others, not fun but bit by bit you get there. Not looking forwards to getting bolas up there when i can get him for crystals, but have been saving up runes, should be up to 240k runes by then hope it is enough.
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Coilbox
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The total cost to level him up to 60 is about 320k runes.
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bk1234
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I’m currently getting the best out of PVE. Got tons from Oath and made some silly decks that I can’t really play anywhere else
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