Today, I've purchased 102 chaos legion packs. Read how it turned out

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In my experience, opening booster packs from Splinterlands is not so reliant on luck. Market prices are quite accurate most of the time, unless it's something that just released. So if you buy a bunch of packs, you'll seldomly lose more than 10%. Whatever I get usually evens out - which happened to be the case with my 102 chaos legion packs.

I got very unlucky with gold foils. No summoner gold foils, yet again no legendary gold foils, but that's kind of taken for granted I guess, and generally lots of regular common cards. More than I usually get. STILL! I got pretty much the exact value I invested. Yes, let me explain.

As soon as I was done opening (using double potions, of course), peakmonsters told me the total value of my cards. Considering I'm selling them for 1% less than market prices and that I'm losing 5% as market fees... It came down to the exact same USD value I paid for! Down to the dollar! Haha.

I didn't sell all of them, though, but most are gone. Right now, I'm delegating a few cards to a friend who's playing and splitting the money with me. He has pretty much nothing except my cards, but he's having fun, because Splinterlands is a fun game. After telling him about Axie and Splinterlands, I suggested he'd have more fun with Splinterlands, which he agreed. He's been playing for over a month, craving for more.

In the image at the beginning of this post, you can see the cards I've delegated to him. Oh, I'm sure you thought for a moment those were the entirety of my booster pack drops, but nope. Posts look better with an image at the beginning, you know!

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I'm resisting to open all mine, since I want to take advantage of the future airdrops and increase my chances of getting the cards. But did open a few, and for sure the dollar amount was bigger than the packs value.

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The way I see it, you make more money using/renting the cards before the airdrops so you can buy more packs, instead of waiting with idle assets. It's also my personal experience.

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I didn't accumulate any vouchers for the pre-sale but I am looking forward to cracking a few packs in general sale.

I did already buy up quite a few Chaos Legions cards, but I am glad you were able to get pretty much the same value you put in even with people quick flipping on launch!😃

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I've bought them for $10 each on hive-engine

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Ok, so it seems like there is no net lost? Haha. But just curious, 102 Packs is a lot. How much did you paid for?

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no loss no gain. 1k usd

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Dude... 1k is a lot man! Hahhaa. Wow.... Sorry I am a student here, so 1k is like WOAH! Hahaha

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ye I'd take a HUGE step back I had lost a lot. but it's generally safe, so I didn't feel any risk

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hahaha. yea! and honestly looking at your cards, wow.... well worth though it is break even

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Being a Splinterlands player, I was so happy to open two of my packs. I only purchased 11. I received two Rares, nothing spectacular. I did receive a nice boost to my Deck power, and air drop points :-)

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I find that opening a whole bunch tends to even out, while opening a few always makes me lose money. Personal experience only. Also, never open packs without potions!

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Great advice, I was just figuring out how many potions I needed to open the rest of my packs as far as HBD for credits. Then I read your reply and laughed out loud at how things just seemed to come together. 😉

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imo you don't buy potions, you farm them from chests

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Yes normally however at my level you get 1 chest per quest completion and it is not always a potion so I bought potions to increase my Deck Power and it worked now I just need to play better lol 😂

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silver 3 is certainly the bare minimum to start getting returns. how far are you from this? I'm at 17,545 right now

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I am far from you at 1,370. Will buy more chaos legion packs that may give me a bit of a boost.

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