I believe that in the current Splinterlands environment it is worth having a maxed out deck. To build your deck you can use Splinterlands interface, but it would be a bit more challenging. There are great third party tools out there. One of my favorite sites is Splintercards
First place I would start to build your deck is to use their Set Value tool to see which sets give you the best value for the money.
For example Rebellion is a great set, but it is almost $7,000:
I believe that the best set to get is Chaos Legion Core. This is a very powerful set, but because it is overprinted it costs only $691:
Another must have set is Chaos Legion Rewards set. It is a very useful set, but it costs only $96:
Once you determine the sets you want to buy you can hunt for bargains by looking at individual card value charts on Splintercards, here is for example Chaos Legion set: https://splintercards.com/cards.html?ed=7
Once you click on one of the cards you get the following screen:
There are two items of particular interest. In the table on the left I circled the discount for buying multiple BCX card vs buying a single BCX card as you can see it is 18% in this case. On the right you can see the chart of single BCX value and multiple BCX value. I like buying cards that have at least 50% discount for multiple BCX and I like buying close to the bottom of the multiple BCX chart.
You can find the best deals on Chaos Legion cards using the following page: Low card & Low Bcx Prices Gap
One of the tricks I learned recently that saves me a lot of time and clicking is using combine all cards feature in conjunction with card filters. Here is what I do every time I get new soul-bound reward cards or Gladiator cards:
- I select Owned Soulbound in a drop-down
- Select Rebellion and Gladius Card Sets
- Click on the plus sign I circled on the right
This combines all of the soul-bound gladiator and rebellion rewards cards:
Finally, here is how I spend my Glint to improve my deck:
- I believe Major Chests are the most cost effective because they provide a great mix of cards, merits and energy
- Epic Cards. I believe in this set Epic cards are the best cards even better than Legendary cards especially considering the much higher cost of legendary draws.
After I buy all the Major Chests and Epic draws I like to spend the remainder on Minor Chests, Rare Draws and Common Draws.
If you wonder what is the best way to get involved you can use my link to begin your Splinterlands and HIVE journey.