bken1234 wrote: Koth launching Tyrant, WDB, and Castigator in one turn... G1 with Hixus, Silverstrike, Sigil, Knightly Valor and Murder Investigation -- with Descend for good measure... Gaea everywhere.... J2 spirit decks with Rattlechains... Tezz with TSN... Ob with nothing but throttle and kill cards... Saheeli casting kill spells, EI, Prism Array, etc And don't even start on Kiora. These are cool decks -- and I envy some of them and I'm sure they are tons of fun to play both with and against in NOP and QB (except that G1 -- ugh) -- where we also get to put our best decks forward -- but they just have no place in other events. This needs to stop. I'm proud of my **** decks and I normally really like this event, but the joy of being strategic and getting those bonus objectives has been stolen by whatever change was made in the last two updates that causes us to play more non-event decks than event decks. EC and **** have just become another QB with coalition points as we are forced to change our decks to forego bonus objectives and just make it out alive. I truly believe that the intention of objectives is to encourage us to think strategically and intelligently about how we will best fulfill these and possibly get us to step out of the box and try new cards; however, somewhere in the message the meaning has been lost and though I can't speak for everyone, I would really like to start playing event optimized decks again -- because it's challenging and they make me think differently and give me cool ideas.
Ohboy wrote: Actually, don't these non event decks cause you to work/think harder? There's a reason the same people are always in the final 10 with perfect scores, and it's not just luck in avoiding non event decks.
Feagul wrote: Ohboy wrote: Actually, don't these non event decks cause you to work/think harder? There's a reason the same people are always in the final 10 with perfect scores, and it's not just luck in avoiding non event decks. Playing against fully tuned QB Koth decks doesn't make me work/think harder, no. All I can figure for those in the top-10 is that whatever they're doing behind the scenes to routinely match me against the same Koth/Ultradaved matchups is that it's tied to mastery. If you play Koth enough in an enraged event, you will eventually have to forego bonus objectives or simply lose. I wish I could undo my mastery grinding to see if if the matchups would stop being so soul-crushingly awful each event.
Ohboy wrote: And your explanation for the same people topping the scoreboard everytime is? I'm pretty sure they meet koths too.
Ohboy wrote: There's a reason the same people are always in the final 10 with perfect scores
Ohboy wrote: Feagul wrote: Ohboy wrote: Actually, don't these non event decks cause you to work/think harder? There's a reason the same people are always in the final 10 with perfect scores, and it's not just luck in avoiding non event decks. Playing against fully tuned QB Koth decks doesn't make me work/think harder, no. All I can figure for those in the top-10 is that whatever they're doing behind the scenes to routinely match me against the same Koth/Ultradaved matchups is that it's tied to mastery. If you play Koth enough in an enraged event, you will eventually have to forego bonus objectives or simply lose. I wish I could undo my mastery grinding to see if if the matchups would stop being so soul-crushingly awful each event. And your explanation for the same people topping the scoreboard everytime is? I'm pretty sure they meet koths too.
Rogan Josh wrote: Really we should only be playing against decks that are in the event, as others have said above. The problem is when you get matched, the AI picks a random PW from that players list to play against. You can't expect people to switch 14+ decks to something fitting the event. the matchmaking needs to be tighter.