Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-20362446-20130916183803/@comment-11229975-20130917211239

The key thing to remember is to be patient. You're not going to have a deck with 30k power overnight unless you drop A LOT of real coin, and there's just no sense to that. It will take time, build yourself up in babysteps.

The events are going to be a great source of deck improvements for you right out of the gate, because you may not be getting the really nice tier rewards for finishing but you'll be swimming in gold and silver medals. Turn those medals in for character cards and you'll quickly find that some of the nice R3s will start filling up your base. I've had the best results with Grimlock and Prime for the Autobots, Starscream Shockwave and Megatron for the Decepticons. Try to get your hands on those, having duplicates is okay (I've seen decks where all 9 cards were the same thing). There is also the ever so slight chance that an R4, either an elite or an event special, will drop from a medal (I've had multiple R4 drops from silvers, and I think there's a guy on the forums who got an R5 from the free daily space bridge pull).

Remember to max out the level of the bot AND THE ALT, then trans-scan them together. The level will reset but will have a nice bump in the base stats. Then max out the level again, you'll know you did it right if you see a black star on the card.

With time you're going to see that deck power start creeping up a few hundred points at a time. You'll also start getting R4 cards from the events, either as medal pulls or finishing rewards.