Mestre said: I didn't get any new cards 😑
Ninjiggle said: Having things like Baneslayer Angel as a standard issue mythic creature for SOME of the decks is bullsh*t. Yeah Oktogon, in this incredibly limited format, let’s include a huge, cheap, Flying creature that has protection from TWO colors (Read: Hexproof) and no non-targeted creature kill available, so that as soon as one hits the board, it’s basically game over without any way to get around it. Make sure you include Lifelink with it too, so there’s no way to ever outpace your opponent’s damage output and win that way, either. This isn’t the only example, but I’ve faced Baneslayer Angel in FOUR of my matches in this event and every time it hits the board it’s just straight up game over because there is NO way to kill it with the absolute pile of dogsh*t that is the deck that you get combining Liliana and Lightning.
What's funny is that I agree the balance is completely off, but I think it's because Teferi is clearly better than all the other PW choices. My Teferi + Pirates deck just went 8-1 (one loss to @julie71's Basri/Rogues deck which cascaded/dumped its entire hand on turn 2) and about half my opponents were Garruk, including at least two Garruk/Angels. They weren't particularly close fights. The format's too slow to realistically stop Teferi from hitting his third ability, and once he does there's absolutely nothing in this format that can compete with three swaps per turn every turn + Teferi's second ability. And there's not enough gem conversion to make the support from Teferi's 3rd ability bug out and stop working (like it always does for me in constructed), so that's nice too.
I didn't mind the slow format/reduced mana gains (though I think it helps make Teferi overpowered), but there are a lot of other gripes I do agree with - the progression rewards are absolutely worthless (change my mind: "Standard" packs that can have dupes are the second-worst type of pack in the game, only surpassed in worthlessness by "Legacy" packs that can have dupes) and the mystery-meat nature of picking your initial deck combo doesn't really feel great. And the event seems awfully expensive, though I suppose if we're talking guaranteed mythics at the end then maybe it's not, but then that just makes certain deck combos dramatically better for their cost than others.
tl;dr - slow format's okay, but the progression rewards are bad and it needs balancing, badly.
Anarchangel said: Ninjiggle said: Having things like Baneslayer Angel as a standard issue mythic creature for SOME of the decks is bullsh*t. Yeah Oktogon, in this incredibly limited format, let’s include a huge, cheap, Flying creature that has protection from TWO colors (Read: Hexproof) and no non-targeted creature kill available, so that as soon as one hits the board, it’s basically game over without any way to get around it. Make sure you include Lifelink with it too, so there’s no way to ever outpace your opponent’s damage output and win that way, either. This isn’t the only example, but I’ve faced Baneslayer Angel in FOUR of my matches in this event and every time it hits the board it’s just straight up game over because there is NO way to kill it with the absolute pile of dogsh*t that is the deck that you get combining Liliana and Lightning. Sorry that happened. I was on the fence about the price. Paying players always will and, even in a perfect world should, get more than non paying.But reading the comments here, it's clear there is too much hook and not enough bait.I am working on the wiki, and we are missing just one card from Jump/StartFor Lightning we have:Weaver of LightningLightning PhoenixLightning BoltRiddle of LightningDo you remember what the fifth card is, please?
Mainloop25 said: Aside from the ludicrous cost, the fact that you have to keep playing the same mediocre deck over and over again, without a way to even try the other ones, against a similar weak deck, with really cruddy progression rewards is why I don't like it. The only reason I'm not even more disappointed in it is because I was able to pick up the card I wanted the most. I have no reason to play this event againI wanted to give this event a chance, but it's just not good.
Julie71 said: 320 for an undupe packs NOT. got one uncommon creature and a common land. all the rest were duplicates I already has. Smh very disappointed with this event