Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-9488559-20130524000230/@comment-9008292-20130524123513

@Andrewds1021

What I meant in regards to the Episode purchase cards such as Cyclonus is the following:

Would you say that it was or would have been rather difficult to play the event and WIN the reward cards such as Elita One, Twinstrike, Jetfire, Chromia, Thundercracker, Slug, etc...? Is the whole purpose of doing well in these events not to win the best cards in the game? If not what is the point of playing to win them?

Take this scenario - After spending many sleepless nights, unproductive work days, arguments with your wife/gf, and money spent, you finally win one of those characters and then take the time to MTM them only to look at the final stats and see that outside of an event with no X2/X3/X5 bonus they are no better, if not worse, then a card you could have bought during the event for $10-$15.

Stats of major recent event reward characters:

Elita One:  19120 - 3849 - 42596

Twinstrike:  18321 - 3728 - 40924

Jetfire: 19120 - 3849 - 42596

Chromia:  16920 - 3841 - 37900

Thundercracker:  20396 - 3666 - 34560

Stats of Cyclonus:

Cyclonus:  21302 - 3788 - 36000

After looking and comparing those stats, your telling me that its worth spending 100+ hours to win event reward cards? Lets pretend you made $5 an hour at work, that would mean 100 hours of game play cost you $500 to win one of those cards. You could have spent $10-$30 to get an X5 card like Cyclonus or half of the cost to win one of those cards to buy a deck of 9 MTM cyclonus and have a more powerful deck after the event.

This also doesnt take into account that during event a card like Cyclonus gets a 5X bonus while a card like Elita One or Twinstrike gets no bonus. At least in past events you got a 2X bonus for R4 cards of a certain faction to make keeping those cards you won in prior event in your deck worth while.

to win those cards and MTM them, you should be able to sit back, look at their stats and be proud of yourself and know that you made your deck formidable for the forseeable future(even after new event reward cards are released because they are all similar power strength).