Nessy wrote: »

Just seems a huge waste of time grinding for these cards which (on face value) seem like the majority are average cards at best!

I don't mind the odd flashback or sbc for a special but these long winded challenges do my nut in.

Initially I was of the same mind as you. Thought of skipping them entirely. Then I realized, too late, that the Squad Battles objectives were relatively easy, due to them not requiring first owned players.

At the same time, I had a bit of luck packing premier league and la liga players, and managed yesterday to get the third win for the the PL team, and 2 wins for the Liga team. So tonight I'll get my 6th swap player.
Had, surprisingly, quite a bit of fun playing the PL team, and beating some Aguero and Aubameyang teams in the process.

And I've been doing this playing semi-casually (no WL last weekend, around 2 hours of play time per day), and trying to get into div 4 (been in division 5 for a while now, hopefully scream Pique will give me the boost required to advance).

So at this point, there's no way for me to go for any of the icons that cost more than 18 swap players, and at the same time, not sure that I'll manage to get the 12 swap players from the second round, maybe 6 again, but that will still secure me an Icon.

With the pack luck being kinda low, even a low end Icon would still improve my squad.