Chaos Legions is out a whole week and price on the individual cards are starting to stabilize. Out of curiosity after hearing some whales bring up the fact that they are able to get a max deck with 4,000 pack purchases I decided to compare if buying 4,000 packs or buying individual max cards are better?
With the help of monstermarket.io cost estimator the current price for a full regular max Chaos Legions deck it would cost:
It would cost approximately a little under $14,000 USD for the max deck. On the other hand for a max gold foil deck it would cost closer to $45,000 USD.
With these stats in mind lets look the other option of buying booster packs in bulk and how much it will cost to get to a max deck.
I started to go through the top holders in collection power and found that number 5th- neoxian has opened over 4,000 packs. Here are some amazing stash of cards.
With a little under 4,200 packs open neoxian has at present value of close to $32,400 USD of Chaos Legion cards. Considering booster packs have street price of $4 then 4,2000 x $4 = $16,800! Now of course this is only wishful thinking because during the first pre-sale players are required to also hold vouchers upon purchases of the booster packs.
At the time each Hive was close to $0.80 each and vouchers remain over 20 hives each during the first pre-sale. Just the vouchers along assuming 20 x $0.80 x 4,200 = $38,400. This is just for vouchers along with assuming an average price of 20 Hives each.
This gets us to $38,400 + $16,800 = $55,000 USD.
So if players had an extra $50k to spend and wanted to invest in Splinterlands it appears buying individual cards will be the more cost saving. Why? The max regular deck currently is a little under $14k while a max gold foil deck currently is a little under $48k. Combine both regular and gold foil max decks it would be $62k. For around $7k more to get both regular and gold foil Chaos Legions full decks that is cheaper than buying individual cards.
It is worth noting that players when opening packs can also increase their chances of getting good cards the players would need to have additional spending on potions.
If vouchers are no longer required to purchase packs it maybe slightly beneficial to go with getting packs to get a max deck. There are variables to play around with when trying to open packs to reach max deck. Variables such as:
how much to spend for potions to increase odds of getting better cards.
Additional spares/stray cards that are earned in packs. What to do with them, selling them or holding them?
The actual cost of a booster pack. By the start of phase 3 of selling packs the voucher requirement maybe lifted however it is advantageous to have vouchers as buyers of the packs earns bonus packs for use of vouchers. Therefore the more packs purchased with vouchers will mean more packs for buyer.
At first glance it may appear that going with the booster pack route may seem more cost efficient but adding in specifics such as potions and vouchers increases costs. While getting a max deck through purchasing individual cards is the better choice based on current open market prices. For now at least since down the road card prices and pack prices will appreciate as like past series. When the cards to appreciate in price it may turn out then that buying packs would be the more cost effective option to getting a max Chaos Legions deck.
Until next time thanks for reading!!!
If you are interested to learn more about Splinterlands please go through some of my other posts. Order is from newest to oldest posts:
Splinterlands - Securing Your Cards From Hackers
All You Want To Know About Reward Chests
Helpful Links for New and Veteran Players
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