This year they have changed the amount of gems you have to purchase to buy the Reeper general with pumpkins. If you purchase the pumpkins to get the general it will cost you over 1800 gems in comparison to the Battle Hardened general that cost just over 1200 gems. In the past the Reeper was always less in gems if you purchased the pumpkins with gems to buy the Reeper then the Battle Hardened general cost in gems. This is just another example of how the company has changed the game to get you to spend more in gems ie cash.

Not only are the pumpkins harder to get this year which is another way to get you to spend your cash but they are coming up with other ways to get you to spend more of your hard earned cash on the game. If they want to get people to spend money why not just put the game up for cash paying customers and be done with it. Instead they do it the sneaky way and change the math on it to reap the cash from those that can't use math to figure it our for themselves.