What an appropriate title for an event. I lost 3 of my first 9 matches on crazy cascades leading to Decimator. Oh, and my opponents did not cast a single vehicle in any of those 9 matches.
If you want to encourage a creature type, at least have us face off against the similar since, as PVP implies, we should be pitted against similar event decks. (Anyone who faces me, I apologize: I abandoned the vehicles and went back to my old decks. Just in it for progression rewards now. After 3 losses, my position on the leaderboard is laughable.)
I’ll admit, I’m not even trying to win the vehicle objective. So even if they are pairing you off against event registered decks, I know for a fact that many people in my coalition as well as myself aren’t even running vehicles. They’re a fun creature type sometimes, but not terribly effective, plus for this event with double damage after 5 turns, even if you are using vehicles, your opponent will be dead before you can summon a 5th one unless you run against an opponent with a large amount of removal, and with no black nodes, that’s highly unlikely.
I’m a fairly new player, but this is the least appealing event I’ve seen yet. Summon 5 of a creature type in an enraged environment? And especially when there are few of that type and they’re mostly fairly boring and underpowered? Not fun.
I tried to get the summon 5 objective in my first try, and nearly lost going up against a no-vehicle deck, while also failing to get the objective. After that, I didn’t even bother putting vehicles in my other decks. If they wanted to be thematic, they could have at least made it vehicle + pilots, or even do a Kaladesh card theme.
This framework is just kind of boring, difficult in a frustrating (rather than entertaining) way, and not very strategic or tactical. I got three wins to get the first crystal reward, and I think that’s it for me. I’ll check in again tomorrow for the Inventor’s Fair.
Yup, I decided not to run vehicles either. I’d rather win the matches than try to get 5 vehicles out (after redoing three decks just to base them on vehicles). I just don’t have any really good vehicles that I’d be willing to waste deck space on when I might get paired against an optimized deck (which I did for 8 out of the 9 fights). I’ll keep my decks and win the matches, thankyouverymuch.
I agree. This is the first event I’ve played that I feel really missed the mark. Playing 5 of anything in an enraged environment where you’re trying to fend off Olivias from unvehicled decks is super annoying and really not fun at all.
What is kind of amazing is that they reduced the number of werewolves and vampires from the earlier events to 2 to make them more achievable and then completely forgot the lesson learned for this event.
I can only agree to that. Almost all vehicles are expensive creatures with Crew-ability and high stats. If you are lucky enough to win with a vehicle deck you have killed your opponent because of the enraged battles. If I have Skysovereign, Peacewalker Colossus and Fleetwheel Cruiser or Scrapheap Scrounger out after turn 5 I kill every opponent in 2 turns. No chance to summon 5 vehicles and have a competitive deck.