Spirit Blossom Festival

I have to say: I am enjoying this "Spirit Blossom" event a lot more than I thought I would.  When I first read about it I thought it sounded fairly underwhelming, but I just spent the past hour diving in and its really reinvigorated my enthusiasm for LoR.  Even though content-wise its "just" a new lab, new quests, and new reward path, for some reason they feel very fresh.  I think the decision to create the new currency, petals, instead of just recycling XP is inspired--it really makes the event progression feel different from the base game even though its practically very similar.   And these new epic quests are well balanced: challenging enough that you can't just fumble through them with a few games, but not so much that you get discouraged.  The OR/AND stuff is pretty cute too.  I made it through the "Win 4 Lab games" quest, and am about 2/3 through the "Toss" quest.

I haven't bought the season pass yet, but now I'm seriously considering it.

What do you guys think?  I saw the thread about the ephemeral/elusive deck in the lab which I agree is a bit overtuned, but in general I haven't seen a lot of comments about the event overall.

I can understand enjoying it, but I personally think that its a bit underwhelming. I didn't find the lab very fun, having far less variety than the ARAM one since it comes with predetermined decks, and being a bit frustrating with such insane high roll and low roll potential. As for the rewards I don't really feel like any of it is all that meaningful. If you don't pay money for it then you are just getting something neat at the very beginning and at the very end. The shards and such in the middle not being all that impactful. Maybe I am just expecting too much since I'm out of champions to earn and have the majority of the epics I care about but I am just sorta waiting for Targon to be announced at this point and until then I'm just playing to do quests so I have extra wild cards and stuff when it finally arrives.

I've had a pretty good time so far too, bought the board and pass and haven't regretted it thus far. 

I like the new main screen and free rewards.  That's all. At the expense of rewards - I'm not interested in cosmetic things. Just 6k shards in improved rewards at a cost of 975 coins. If necessary, it is better to separately buy 600 coins, which are equal to these 6k shards.

I like new stuff, but why even have daily quests if 90% of the items are behind a paywall. Just have only grindable stuff in the event list and the rest in the store.

It took me a while for the first epic quest! Got it by using Powder Kegs +  Swain. I really wanted this mushroom guy.