User blog:JustinMasterMine/PopCap's reaction to the September 12 challenge

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In this challenge, Beta-Carrotina starts with a Dark Matter Dragonfruit and two Soul Patches with a Brainana in her hand. There are three Medulla Nebulae and you have to use Gentleman Zombie, Teleportation Zombie and three Zombology Teachers. You have to place all of the zombies except for one teacher, and then Brainana will be played. Gentleman and Teleportation will provide the BrainPvZH.png upon being revealed from their gravestones, and you have to use Alien Ooze to destroy Dark Matter Dragonfruit, then use Secret Agent to strengthen Zombology Teacher. You have 2 Locust Swarms left to finish the job.

This point is where it all goes wrong.

Medulla Nebula was nerfed to give +2BrainPvZH.png instead of +3BrainPvZH.png in a distant update. This challenge was created before the nerf, but things have changed now. Thanks to the nerf, you only get enough brains to destroy one Soul Patch and therefore the surviving Soul Patch will absorb all of the damage. Z-Mech will inevitably lose. It wasn't just myself that had to go through this. We all did.

PopCap eventually realised their blunder and they decide to...bribe us with a free Galactic Gardens pack that yields twice as much cards, like all the times they've found a glitch which prevents their challenge from being solvable.

Oh dear! We forgot that we nerfed Medulla Nebula's Brain gain and now the Surprise challenge is unbeatable!
Who cares? To compensate, we're going to give the players a Galactic pack with no cost required!
We're going to give them twelve cards instead of six! They'll totally forgive us for sure!