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You either got ridiculously lucky or you spent more gems than you let on. I quit using gems after a week of pulling nothing but garbage. Totally agree with the original post — it’s a lame event. Unless you’re P2P or you’ve been saving up a mountain of gems and can bend the odds in your favor by opening enough packs, it’s a waste of time and resources cuz mostly you’re just going to get crap and you’ve got no “option B” (e.g., gathering shards) to try and win a meta player.
Ballon d'Or has actually been decent for me in terms of pulls. I got Zidane, Best, Rijkaard, and today, Yamal. I only did the 10k packs, so that’s around 70k gems spent. A few people in my league also pulled other 111 plus Icons, so RNG felt a bit more generous when compared to Anniversary that has been utterly rubbish, but its still probabilities, sometimes you get lucky, most of the time you don't (and until Ballon d'Or, my pack luck has been pretty much mostly lowest cards so expecting nothing for months now, haha)