The enemy decks consist of [[#Unique Cards|special hydra-themed cards]] based on Magic: the Gathering's [https://mtg.gamepedia.com/Face_the_Hydra Face the Hydra challenge deck] that are not available in Puzzle Quest. The illustration for the event, and for the individual bosses, is from the Nessian Wilds Ravager card.

Developers Webcore altered the second node's Ribbon values to 15-3-2 for all nodes except 2.1 3. One hundred and 2fifty Ribbons are now available on the second node, where the maximum was previously 120.2Curiously, bringing although the ribbons total available Ribbons 60 the first time through, an average of 20 per game, this is reduced to 15 each game on subsequent cycles. Thisincentivizes players to simply play three games on the second node, and then switch to 240 instead playing all of 210the rest on the first node.