The card awarded for winning the Spinner's Pull Triple Triad tournament is Cecil Harvey, which remains the only tournament card that I don't yet own; I'm aware that you can apparently get it from platinum triad cards too, but I've never had that happen after what feels like over a hundred platinum triad cards by now.

No matter how good someone is at Triple Triad, the swap rule involves an unfair degree of luck that can objectively make someone's odds of winning a match significantly lower through no fault of their own; this is because the swap rule involves one random card from each player being swapped with the other player, but there's no guarantee that the ranks of the swapped cards end up matching. This means that you can lose your 5-star card in exchange for a 3-star card, which often either costs you the game or makes you work hard just to get a tie when playing against other experienced players; the opposite can also happen, where you end up having a large advantage by pure luck, although this tends to happen less for me because of... well, bad luck.

I'm about to give up on ever winning the Cecil Harvey card naturally because of this luck-based mechanic, and I've seen a lot of yelled frustrations in the tournament room from other players when similar issues happen to them as well. Posting this concern to the forums now in order to raise awareness for a possible future change.

For this tournament to be fair, I feel that one of the following needs to happen:
  1. The swap rule needs to guarantee that only the same ranks are swapped. In the unusual event that two decks don't have any identically ranked cards, then there could be an exception behavior where a random card of the lower rank for each player is swapped.
  2. Remove the swap rule from the tournament and replace it with a less luck-based rule.
Has anyone else been frustrated by their attempts to get this card? Feel free to share your own concerns in the comments below.

I'm also not sure if there's a suggestion forum where this would be better to post; if there is, then a moderator is welcome to move my thread, and my apologies and sincere thanks in advance if so.