Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-10287686-20130704181414/@comment-9971098-20130705171706

Right now I'm sitting on 454 energy cubes and 431 battle cubes. I always try to play conservative by setting a mark and then refuse to go below that in battle cubes. Until the last day that is since it can take a lot to stay under a preferred reward tier. The last two events I was able to stay below 1,500 but Beachcomber would barely be a decent addition to my deck so reason to push higher.

I've found that the only problem with this strategy is that there's really no where for me to go. After enough events I'm looking at a deck rating of the mid 12k range. Most of my deck is filled with second and third tier reward cards. Sure, I could gain an extra 2nd tier card and maybe some X5 cards over the next few events but it still wouldn't impact my deck enough to matter. Other than Ultra Magnus and Swideswipe, none of my cards have been purchased so it goes to show that even free to low spending players can compete.

Basically either push for the top 150 one time, which would probably take all my saved battle cubes, or just keep playing and gradually increase my deck. After the first few hours I'm already out of being competitive without raid cards so no reward card will really ever help. Even if I gained a R5 card, would it really give me any statistical advantage? I think probably not unless I'm willing to go after even more.