How do we feel about The Elderspark now?

I have a love and hate relationship with this event. I dislike it because the AI is so so so lucky at strategic moments, especially after you’ve spend 30 turns and about to close the deal. I am almost at peace with these « moments » now, but this hurts my team. So love it for the deck building challenge but hate it for the unfair losses.

mrixl2520 said:

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mrixl2520 said:

Did anyone else feel like they were perpetually fighting for tiny amounts of mana? I swear every game after my first swap I struggled to get any mana. Compound that with often not even drawing a creature and I lost a lot of games in very unfun ways. Frustrating, and kind of suspicious... 

I appreciate the level of challenge in this event: its nice not to just steamroll a 100hp opponent. However, a couple events felt unbalanced. I really struggled with node 2.2? (The one with art of Nahiri fighting Sorin). Greg’s 2nd ability “steal a dude, hit you with it, then kill it” is infuriating, especially when you’ve been choked for mana for several turns and you don’t even get to swing with your creature.

Another event that was frustrating was Vitu-Gazi and the unbreakable support that destroys everything once there are 20 or more token critters.

I really dislike how pushed Vanguards are for this event. Greg usually had some means of disposing of them fairly quickly, especially in events that had them for objectives. I would spend a bunch of turns casting something that doesn’t make an impact when it hits the board and then its gone. Vanguards are so slow, underpowered, over costed, and too difficult to obtain. But that’s a rant for another topic I supposed.

It depends on what level you are playing.  For veterans, they have so many goods cards that balance the mana gain in your favor, despite the computer trying to starve you.  Yes, I did have a game where it was obvious, but still managed to win due to my overpowered cards. 

Yeah, I couldn't even get out my mana accelerating cards. If I did manage to get one it, it seemed like it barely made a difference or got destroyed almost immediately. Usually I was so far behind I was just putting all my effort into removal and damage control. 

This happens to me a lot. The lack of matches, mana starving, and AI cascades

Its the result of people saying the game isnt challenging enough, greg is stupid, and also nerf requests (leads to super underpowered cards like.. proliferate)

Thanks for making my games grindy and unfun.

Avacyn's Madness was during the height of powercreep, though. At the time, Greg was overpowered, but so were we.  

What bothers me, is 
(1) the much overpowered mana gain of the 'higher' encounters. Even with a complete WAR collection you can't really compete, just because the mana income of e.g. NB, dragon god is just ridiculous 
(2) the 'gambling' part, which also happened more than once during the last TE, like for instance running my deck of choice against dragon god, won more or less easily, cleared both secondaries as well, no big deal. Second match with exactly the same PW and deck got my **** kicked real hard, greg cascades tons of mana with always the right cards in hand, so I lost the match pretty quick with almost no chance...
(3) bugs/freezes, but I'm not sure if the event in general could be blamed or rather the release of the new set, which usually brings plenty of those with it..