I'm just as disappointed as you are. Especially now that it seems like we are not competing against bots for daily rewards, it makes a F2P player like myself even more at a disadvantage.
Even though I was unable to complete the previous event, I was still able to obtain enough EPIC cards to fully fuse/max it out despite the card not being useful enough to keep in the deck. I was also able to obtain 1 legendary card and 1 mythic card. With the way the new event is set up, I don't think I will be able to repeat that process.
@Hooligart, I hope you can help us out!!