Is there any way at all for Saheeli’s deck to beat a Runaway Carriage with vigilance+ flying or reach?
Isn’t it rather ridiculous? The devs say they made RC to shake up the metagame and force people to play some defenders. So we’re all carefully building our decks to include Scions, or defenders, or untargeted non-damage-based removal, or True-Faith Censer.
And then we play an event with an unmodifiable deck built by those same devs… which includes absolutely 0 ways to handle RC. Exert Influence is a good candidate for second-most-defining card of the metagame, but it doesn’t work on RC (hexproof). Nor do Brutal Expulsion (hexproof) or Chandra’s Ignition (damage). Nor do any of her loyalty abilities.
The closest thing to an answer is Pia and Kiran’s activated ability, to very slowly and unreliably burn the face. While being smacked for 6-8+ by RC which we can’t block due to the deck including 0 defenders. This from the devs who say they want the metagame to include more defenders.
We’re all on the same grounds in terms of having a chance to fight this combo but not everyone will because of the matchmaking differences. If literally everyone had to fight a G1 RC deck an equal amount of times, then it would be “fair” or “same grounds.”
Guess we’ll just have to disagree then. I don’t think they should’ve released an event like this without fixing RC first.
Keep in mind my issue with RC is tied into the fact we’re stuck with the preconstructed Saheeli deck. If I had control over which cards are in my deck and still lost due to bad draws or something, I wouldn’t be as upset. Shit happens.
RC is a powerful card, but it’s tolerable when players can build around such potential threats.
That’s not what I’m saying. I too agree they should have fixed RC first. I’m simply pointing out that just because not everyone meets RC the same number of times doesn’t mean it’s not fair.
Just lost my second game to Gideon battleforged runaway carriage with the saheeli deck. It’s getting extremely frustrating. On cool he played that and is at 4 loyalty. I have 2 - 3 turns to win. Oh everything I have costs 25? Nvm
