I was thinking about doing that, but I've already been playing the game since April (school kept coming in the way of playing more), and I'm kind of tired of dragging it out :-/
Yeah, that part was annoying. I'm not a big fan of card games, so I think I would've preferred another boss fight, with the auto-life ring as a reward :DQuote:
You need to face the champion in order to continue the story.