Splinterlands is a pretty complicated game with interesting battles, with all the options available. This is a part of the weekly social media challenge for Splinterlands. This week is about why I chose to max out a card that I had.
Featured cards
Aurelia is an Earth summoner/archon that costs 6 mana. Increasing the level of this card allows you to use higher-level cards, and I do use this card quite often in Foundational fights. However, I don't use it much in Modern right now as I have other summoners who are at a similar level. Summoners/Archons are required in every single fight.
My purchase and card upgrade
Above is my purchase of 1 BCX Gold Foil Aurelia. I decided to use Monster Market because it gives some DEC back for my purchase.
With this, I have the cards to make a max level Aurelia.
Why did I do this?
One of the rewards from the daily quest rewards in Frontier is a Frontier pack that contains 5 random Frontier cards. Each pack is guaranteed to have at least one rare card. From just pure luck, I was able to collect 3 copies of the gold foil Aurelia, and I only needed 1 more to max the card.
What benefit does this give me? At level 3, I could already use my cards to the highest level in Frontier as I didn't have any max level cards that would benefit from this. However, this max level cards does bring along some benefits. While I do not have max level cards yet, I do have a few cards starting to near max level, and doing this early will make it so that I can use the cards at their highest level in Modern/Frontier when the time comes. It also lets me use this card in Brawl as my highest level summoner. In Brawls, I have been taking the gold foil frays, and most of my cards are low-level. There are some cards that are higher level, but I have not been able to use them, and this will let me do so when I can.
Now that I have a max level Aurelia, I plan to sell off my common foil Aurelias. The good thing about this is that the sale from this is more than the cost of that 1 BCX Gold Foil card. So I will be profiting from this. I just don't see a point in keeping the common foil version of this card when I have a max level gold foil version.
I used Peak Monsters to list my cards because it was relatively easy to do so. If all of these cards sell, then I won't have lost out by upgrading this card, but who knows what will happen?
Conclusion
With this, I have gotten my very first max-level summoner/archon in the Frontier deck. I think this was a fairly good choice to do because I already had most of the cards to max the card from my Frontier pack openings. I won't be losing anything by listing my common foil version of this card. With this, my deck will be stronger once I have the cards to take advantage of it. It will also help me in my brawl fights since I am in the gold foil frays. I might not be able to take advantage of it that much due to my low level cards, but if it can help in some fights, it's enough. I am looking forward to the time when my cards are high enough level.
What do you think about my purchase? Do you think it was a good decision?