Remove old Event or Restrict sets

Monkeynutts
Monkeynutts Posts: 566 Critical Contributor
in MtGPQ General Discussion
OMG absolutely sick of old event with new cards. The interactions are broken and aiming for the objectives is pointless these days.
Had enough been playing for years and this is still one of the most frustrating things.

SUMMON 2 or less creatures....and u get a Nicol Bolas p.s....or a combo deck.

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  • GrizzoMtGPQ
    GrizzoMtGPQ Posts: 776 Critical Contributor
    When you play the summon two or less node you need to use cards that FETCH a creature. Vivien's Invocation or Dubious Challenge. The other option is to use cards that put out creatures without summoning. Summon means to fill a creature card with mana and cast from your hand. Fetch, Awaken, Stored Mana effects, etc do not count. 
  • ArielSira
    ArielSira Posts: 520 Critical Contributor
    It's very easy to do for Green and even more with a dual walker. Make tokens, reanimate etc. You probably do need a healthy dose of mythics to make it easier (Sandwurm, Thopter Spy Network), use cards to steal (like Bolas Clutches), creatures that return from gy, Journey to Eternity or use the rares Grizzo mentioned.
  • Laeuftbeidir
    Laeuftbeidir Posts: 1,841 Chairperson of the Boards
    It's Scraphead Scrounger node! Play one, gather the pack, profit. Riddleform is extra fun.
    If you don't have him..
    Enbalm creatures, gather the pack, profit.
    Garruk.

    There are enough ways to make it work!
  • Monkeynutts
    Monkeynutts Posts: 566 Critical Contributor
    Regardless of that you get paired against broken multi creature decks and you can have two...summon or noy. You still gotta get the cards to get another summoned and not cast..... It was a node and event built aronud BFZ.....now its being left as it was with everything up to M19......
  • SinisterOne
    SinisterOne Posts: 47 Just Dropped In
    I've never had a problem with summon 2 or less creature objective. As said above plenty of ways around it thanks to tokens, res, fetch etc.
  • HarryMason
    HarryMason Posts: 136 Tile Toppler
    Sometimes your creatures die, breh. They died 2 years ago and they still die today. There are a million ways around this. Try something different .
  • TomB
    TomB Posts: 269 Mover and Shaker
    Personally, I'm just looking forward to having the weekend off... ;)
  • Froggy
    Froggy Posts: 511 Critical Contributor
    edited September 2018
    With 250 player brackets, I don’t care too much. I don’t see anyone in my bracket with a perfect score. And with no set restriction, it makes sense. My point, is that it at least adds flavor to the event. No one running a perfect score means that the events are harder. But it also means others are having to face my OP Legacy decks. I can live with that.
  • Monkeynutts
    Monkeynutts Posts: 566 Critical Contributor
    Do none of you play paper as well?

    Your all happy there is no rotation and older set merge with new ones in old events?

    Playing vs Nicol Bolas in old events is just backward with the lore.
  • Gunmix25
    Gunmix25 Posts: 1,442 Chairperson of the Boards
    Monkeynutts said:
    Do none of you play paper as well?

    Your all happy there is no rotation and older set merge with new ones in old events?

    Playing vs Nicol Bolas in old events is just backward with the lore.
    I do play paper. Lore is pure flavor to me.  I love that MTGPQ is able to mix up cards from various sets ... just like paper. ;)
  • Mburn7
    Mburn7 Posts: 3,427 Chairperson of the Boards
    I'm not sure what your issue is here.  We get like 1 legacy event per month, and its a great way to break out the ol' infinite combo decks we all miss playing.

    The only really difficult objective is the "lose 10 or less life" one because of legacy's love of dealing 12 damage in 1 shot.  But even that node isn't impossible to do most of the time.

    And yes, I play paper as well.  But since I don't like spending a ton of money I almost never run standard decks anyway (and its not like I'm competing much anyway, so whatever)
  • Kinesia
    Kinesia Posts: 1,621 Chairperson of the Boards
    I think this is more an issue in not understanding how the objective actually works since we are NOT taught that in game.

    As was said earlier by Grizzo:
    """
    When you play the summon two or less node you need to use cards that FETCH a creature. Vivien's Invocation or Dubious Challenge. The other option is to use cards that put out creatures without summoning. Summon means to fill a creature card with mana and cast from your hand. Fetch, Awaken, Stored Mana effects, etc do not count. 
    """

    Any way of playing a creature apart from casting from hand doesn't break the objective. Even after saying this the Original poster doesn't understand it because it seems they need practical in game examples and training for it to make sense.
    There needs to be a "Training" section in story for events and how the requirements work.

     
  • TomB
    TomB Posts: 269 Mover and Shaker
    Apparently the OP doesn't play AI either, since the 3rd node has the "Summon 2 or less creatures" objective...But I hear him on the "Lose 2 or less creatures" objective and getting a NB or Ob to play against... :/
  • Kinesia
    Kinesia Posts: 1,621 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited September 2018
    Oh, and I'm not trying to shame the OP, I'm trying to shame the fact that this STILL isn't taught in game even though it's critical.

    Make it part of the "Kiora" training there is already a shell for since she has many options for tokens including her Octopodians.

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