Incorrect rules interactions
My opponent cast The Elder Dragon War and made the 4/4 dragon right away! He skipped directly to the third level of the saga with no effects enabling him to do this (if these kinds of effect even exist...). He even attacked with a 1/1 hoping I would blocked with my 3/3 and killing the creature with the pyroclasm effect of the saga... I lost for this reason.
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Lycius#38731 commented
Reading the card explains the card.
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BlastedAmerican#70410 commented
Elder Dragon War has the mechanic "Read Ahead". This allows the saga to enter play with a number of saga counters of the players choosing on the card. It sounds like your opponent cast the card and chose to have it enter with 3 counters. This allows them to skip the first two parts of the saga and just create the 4/4 dragon.