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RE: The best time to buy cards is now

in Splinterlands4 years ago

I totally agree with your analysis right now. I've been watching prices pretty closely for the past month and while they all have moments of price increases and price decreases, for the most part, they've stayed pretty steady in their current ranges. With the slowing of new packs being sold, I would expect that if anything, prices might start to creep up again.

One thing I would add to this, just to make sure people are aware: it's my understanding that any packs bought on the secondary market do NOT count towards your "packs purchased" number in the game. That means that they will not count towards the future airdropped cards coming for every million sold. That may or may not be a big deal for people, but I thought I'd point it out.

In the meantime, I've been accumulating cards and have almost maxed out my Chaos deck. I've just got a handful of Epics yet to fill and then, of course, that stupid Dr Blight. I've got 6 but biting the bullet to buy another 5 at over $100 each is a tough pill to swallow, especially since I only fight at Gold level. Unfortunately, it IS a really great card and I'm sure the "Weaken" ability you pick up at max level could definitely make a big difference in those close battles. Time to start saving...

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You are totally right, only the packs bought from the splinterlands website give a chance to get free airdropped cards. However the value of that is linked to the ratio of packs necessary to get a guaranteed card. It was 500 packs for the last one and it could be even more for the following ones.

I also invested in Dr. Blight as well but developed it only to level 3. I really don't want to put 5 more cards into it just for the weaken ability. It seems steep to pay 500 $ for a weaken ability lol.

I can't imagine the ratio will go up again but...maybe. I think they have a set number of cards in mind that get minted of each of these so they do the math and go from there. I think they miscalculated on the first couple which is why they raised the number from 300(350?) to 500 but I would think they have it figured out from here on. That said, you never know.

Yeah, like I said above, $500 is tough to justify for one extra ability. That said, if you're planning to compete at the top levels, odds are your opponent will have it so you'll probably need it. Of course, there's every possibility in the world that the team will be coming out with a "counter" hero at some point. Maybe the last airdropped card for example. Start the sale off with Dr Blight and then finish it with "Professor Eden" (I made that up...the Garden of Eden being the antithesis of blight). Professor Eden could "remove poison" from one monster, be immune to it herself, have the strengthen ability, reflect magic, and do double damage against cards with the poison ability all with the same "camouflage" ability that Blight has.

I have no idea if this is in the plans but...it seems to make sense.

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