One of the highlights of the End of Season opening/reward selection was getting an Epic card from a Minor Chest, with a current probability of 0.25%. This was a real surprise, and it's curious that at the time I was debating between using 15k glint to get the Minor Chests or another Epic Draw. Luckily, choosing the Loot Chests was the right decision, and the rest of the rewards ended up being a "bonus". In addition, there were other smaller rewards and also an upgrade, and many other common cards are almost at the required quantity to level up in the next EOS; it's possible that 2-4 cards will level up.
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EPIC CARD from a Minor Chest!
The last season of Splinterlands ended a few days ago and, as usual, when the season ends, the End Of Season (EOS) rewards, which is a quantity of glint that accumulates throughout the season, are distributed to Splinterlands players. Last season's performance ended up being quite interesting, placing me, if I'm not mistaken, one or two ranks higher than usual, but the reward didn't change much. However, I believe I received 5 to 10k more glint, which is already very good, since glint's utility has been increasing and more glint is never a bad thing.
Thus, as a way to review the purchases made with glint in the Gwen's Glint Shop Reward Store and also to share the rewards found with other players, let's now move on to the rewards themselves. As I've mentioned in previous posts about upgrading my deck with Glint from EOS, I usually try to get an epic card through the Epic Draw, since the chances are very low in Loot Chests and these cards end up having a big impact on matches, as they usually have good stats and useful abilities for various situations even at level 1. The epic card I got from the epic draw was Rila Fen. Unfortunately, it was a card I had already acquired before, so there's not much to say, but overall a good card, but it would have been MUCH better if it had been a different card.
In addition, as usual I also usually get Batch 1 of Merits since it has the best cost-benefit ratio and costs only 2000 Glint for 2000 Merits. Next comes opening the Loot Chests, which mixes the desire to get something incredible within the jackpot possibilities, but also to obtain common and rare cards, which are still many levels away from reaching the level of my summoners. Meanwhile, the strategy will continue to be opening Minor Chests, which have the best cost-benefit ratio in terms of common and rare cards. And I must also confess that it's much better to open several chests than to open only a few major chests or almost none ultimate chests.
With a good portion of my EOS glint, I decided to open 59 Minor Chests hoping to get at least one item better than a rare card from the Reward collection. However, the opening started with only half at a time, that is, 30 Minor Chests, to make it easier to score the best rewards found. In this first opening, I got 3 Common Scrolls, 1 Rare Scroll, only 3 rare cards and 7 common cards, overall below expectations. Then, the remaining 29 chests contained 10 common cards, 2 rare cards and 2 common scrolls, so if I thought the previous opening was mediocre, this one was WAY below expectations.
I was debating whether to get another epic draw or open more Minor Chests, and decided to give the Minor Chests another chance, opening 30 more chests, hoping luck would be on my side and something incredible would come! And to my surprise, something truly amazing came, an epic card, Joraki Venshiro. In addition, I got 8 common cards and 2 common scrolls.
Upgrades and Highlights
The first highlight was Joraki Venshiro, an archer with 3 damage, which is great damage, 6 HP which is average, and 3 speed which is also average, all at level 1. I currently have 2 of his, so when I have 2 more, I'll be able to evolve him to level 2, where he wins against Beyond the Painforge ability, there's the Blind ability, which is more general and helps the whole team. I keep thinking that if I had gotten the Epic Draw, I wouldn't have gotten this card or all the other rewards, which ended up coming as a bonus.
Furthermore, while several other common cards are now close to reaching level 4, the card that, with these rewards, reached the necessary amount to reach the next level was the Palimpsest Prophet, which will reach level 3m gaining another speed stat. It's not much, but in matches, any extra stat helps.
