shards system

spot on brother.   They've blown their own cash cow to pieces.    Game was in such good shape, incentive to spend, shards could get you what you actually wanted.   until some bright spark thought to turn the game into a pure casino simulator, and guess what, haven't spent a cent since.   smartest guys in the room ?  I think not.  We can only hope the takeover brings about significant change

You do realise that drafts did not replace shards?

1 - Drafts replaced the store packs (esp 2.5k and 3k gem ones).

2 - Shards were replaced by Phase 2 Tokens, with a poor conversion rate of the event cards to the said P2T tokens. 

3 - You do have a choice via exchange, it's just expensive because of point (2) above.

If you are going to complain about something, be factual.