We are a few hours before the end of the ranked play season at Splinterlands, and it's time to see my progress on maxing out my Rebellion soulbound reward cards.
Pretty good season on the Wild/Glint side of things for me. I was able to purchase all 1st batches draws with the Glint earned (except legendary ones), and briefly reached Champ 2 after a while, but that gave me access to the Champ 2 tier advancement rewards. Too bad they sucked! Major time. I only got like 3-4 card rewards, only one of them rare. Mostly merits and some energy... if you can believe it.
It is true I pulled some nice card rewards in previous seasons from tier advancement chests.
So, let's see what I did with the Glint this season.
I had no Glint to purchase more legendary draws this time around, but I was able to buy all 25 epic draws, all 100 rare draws, and 400 common draws. I still have 6,754 Glint remaining.
That makes it easy to see how much Glint I earned this season (including the season rewards from last season). That makes it a total of 322,500 Glint used for draw purchases this season (+6,754 remaining in my stash for a total of 329,254). Last season I had a total of 295,200 Glint in purchases. That means I spent 34,054 more Glint this season.
Let's keep a table too, going forward:
| Season since New SB Set | Glint Used to Purchase Draws | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Season 5 | 363,200 | |
| Season 6 | 344,400 | -18,800 Glint |
| Season 7 | 352,700 | +8,300 Glint |
| Season 8 | 341,850 | -10,850 Glint |
| Season 9 | 328,100 | -13,750 Glint |
| Season 10 | 427,500 | +99,400 Glint |
| Season 11 | 462,500 | +35,000 Glint |
| Season 12 | 322,500 | -140,000 Glint |
| Season 13 | 305,550 | -16,950 Glint |
| Season 14 | 314,100 | +8,550 Glint |
| Season 15 | 322,500 | +8,400 Glint |
| Season 16 | 295,200 | -27,300 Glint |
| Season 17 (current) | 322,500 | +27,300 Glint |
| Last 3 seasons' average | 313,400 |
Let's see what my current situation of the Rebellion SB set completion progress is so far:
| Season since New SB Set | Commons % | Rares % | Epics % | Legendaries % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | 1 / 0 | 2 / 0 | 8 / 0 | 9 / 0 |
| Season 2 | 2 / 1 | 2 / 0 | 9 / 0 | 17 / 0 |
| Season 3 | 3 / 1 | 2 / 0 | 10 / 0 | 23 / 0 |
| Season 4 | 5 / 2 | 3 / 1 | 12 / 0 | 27 / 0 |
| Season 5 | 7 / 2 | 4 / 2 | 13 / 0 | 36 / 0 |
| Season 6 | 8 / 3 | 5 / 2 | 15 / 0 | 42 / 0 |
| Season 7 | 9 / 3 | 6 / 2 | 15 / 0 | 51 / 0 |
| Season 8 | 10 / 3 | 7 / 2 | 17 / 0 | 58 / 0 |
| Season 9 | 10 / 3 | 7 / 2 | 24 / 1 | 61 / 0 |
| Season 10 | 19 / 5 | 14 / 4 | 31 / 4 | 63 / 0 |
| Season 11 | 28 / 6 | 22 / 4 | 39 / 6 | 65 / 0 |
| Season 12 | 37 / 8 | 29 / 5 | 47 / 9 | 65 / 0 |
| Season 13 | 44 / 9 | 37 / 5 | 54 / 11 | 67 / 0 |
| Season 14 | 52 / 11 | 45 / 5 | 62 / 11 | 67 / 0 |
| Season 15 | 61 / 13 | 53 / 5 | 70 / 13 | 67 / 0 |
| Season 16 | 66 / 14 | 61 / 6 | 79 / 14 | 67 / 0 |
| Season 17 (current) | 75 / 17 | 70 / 8 | 85 / 16 | 67 / 0 |
That's +0% to the progress of legendary cards, +6% progress to epic cards (and +2% to epic GF), +9% progress to rare cards (and +2% to the rare GF), and only 9% progress to the common cards (and +3% to the common GF).
Nice progress on commons this time, unlike previous times. Epics, despite buying all of the draws, I pulled 5 doubles of the card I already had maxed! 😮🙁 That's unlucky! I still don't have any maxed common or rare cards, but I have multiple common cards at level 9 and multiple rare cards at level 7. Very likely next season I will maxed out one of them.
Last week I said:
Hard to change the strategy from epic 1st, rare 2nd, common 3rd, legendary 4th, right now, even if I now have a maxed epic card and the pretty high risk of getting a double there. I couldn't start with legendaries, since I have 2 maxed cards for that rarity, so the risk is still higher there to pull a double. I could consider starting with rare and common first, and continuing with epic next, since I don't have any doubles there yet, but I do normally receive more common and rare cards from tier advancement chests, so I think I'll keep the same strategy for now. If I get 2 maxed epic cards however, I'll have to change something.
Although I have the same opinion, it turned out the game of chances played me a trick with those 5 doubles on epics.
So, the strategy still remains epic first, rare second, common third, legendary forth, until I max out another epic or 2 common or 2 rare cards.
Here are the "before and after" snapshots for the Rebellion SB epic cards, which are my current main focus. "Before" first:
1 at level 6 (max level), 5 at level 5, 1 at level 4
And now the current levels of the epic cards...
My Rebellion SB epic cards: 1 at level 6 (max level), 5 at level 5, 1 at level 4.
This season, there was no change in the levels of the epic cards I have. I liked that I pulled a few Olivias, the one card I have at level 4.
Perhaps a more relevant metric is the amount of Glint already spent compared to the total amount needed to max out the SB set (only regulars).
Here' s my situation:
8,790,000 Glint
Glint value of the cards collected so far (ignore GF and doubles):
6,427,600 Glint
Progress percentage:
73.12%
Estimated^ time to max out the RF cards (or GF, where possible):
8 more seasons (4 months, i.e. end-August)
^) estimation now includes tier advancement rewards (average last 3 seasons); estimation doesn't account for Glint wasted on pulling doubles of maxed out cards or GF instead of RF (where GF card level isn't high enough)
Last season's Glint value of cards collected: 6,129,100.
Difference: 298,500 Glint-worth of cards this season, including tier advancement rewards.
| Season since New SB Set | Glint-Worth of Cards (including Tier Advancement Rewards) | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Season 7 | 414,550 | - |
| Season 8 | 368,400 | -46,150 Glint |
| Season 9 | 328,850 | -39,550 Glint |
| Season 10 | 388,350 | +59,700 Glint |
| Season 11 | 446,250 | +57,900 Glint |
| Season 12 | 330,600 | -115,650 Glint |
| Season 13 | 407,400 | +76,800 Glint |
| Season 14 | 344,400 | -63,000 Glint |
| Season 15 | 352,050 | +7,650 Glint |
| Season 16 | 323,250 | -28,800 Glint |
| Season 17(current) | 298,500 | -24,750 Glint |
| Last 3 seasons' average | 324,600 |