Can we say goodbye to required PW events?

FindingHeart8

Mainloop25 said:

FindingHeart8 said:

Mainloop25 said:

Her deck was a bunch of expensive rares and mythics with barely any ramp and no way to deal with a pre-nerf Runaway Carriage. It was ok when you got lucky but very frustrating otherwise. 

meh, red and blue didn't have a great deal of ramp aside from gem destruction.  Her mana bonuses compensated for the high mana costs and her thopters could easily fly over any Runaway Carriage blockade (that wasn't from Gideon1, of which there were very few answers even outside of Saheeli to deal with).  Not saying it wasn't a little clunky and there wasn't room for improvement, but as a player who didn't have any of those cards at the time, I thought it was pretty fun.

Ask around how many people lost a chance at owning Saheeli because they ran into Gideon 1. That alone is enough for people to hate that deck. 

I'm sure it was plenty.  Like almost any deck at that time facing Gideon 1, it was basically a race to destroy Gideon before he put up his invincible hexproof wall.

I never owned Runaway Carriage back when it was broken, but a lot of players did and abused it.  My best decks at that time was (just my luck) beserker werewolf decks, so racing to kill Gideon before he became indestructible was not a new experience to me when I tested the Saheeli deck.

My point here is: The problem wasn't the Saheeli deck, it was Runaway Carriage, which at that time was equivalent to playing this game with cheat codes.

Mainloop25

Ehh. It was both. That deck was too top-heavy. If I made that deck ,I would have been able to see that with some QB play testing almost immediately, even if pre-nerf RC never existed.

Aeroplane

As long as there is another event running , there is no problem with it. You can still get some rewards without the specific planeswalker. Half of something is better than nothing.