obviously this depends on your own account, but I always prioritize evo shards over regular cards. you get cards from everywhere, getting evos is pretty hard as f2p.
if the cards you're getting from the shop are in your main deck, that's one thing. but if not, i think the flexibility in getting the evos is worth it
I agree, it all depends on what people have for their decks. Depends where people place their value.
To some people the evos in the shop is worth it regardless. But also remember within the last 3 seasons we were given evo RG & evo Mortar. I am pretty sure SC will hand out more evos as they roll out new ones.
Basically comes down to choosing 1 evo card vs 250 rare or 1000 common cards. Or do both, although paying for an opportunity cost for something else. But sadly as f2p and using no gems we can’t buy the whole shop lol. Cheers 🍻
Evo zap is ok not as strong as other evos tho but imo u should work on getting it
It's a good support evo
If you believe in stats you couldn’t be more wrong. Evo zapped, according to GC stats is the best evo with a 43% userate and a 58% winrate.
What are u saying? Statistically, it is the very best evo in the game, Best can be argued bcuz stats dont tell 100% of the story but that proves it's at least very good.
In terms of value, the Legendary cards give the best gold value (5.0) and EWC value (1.0) per token. Second best Gold value is the Gold Pouch (5.0) and third best is the Book of Rares (3.1). Second best EWC value is the Book of Rares (0.5) and third is the Gold Pouch (0.25).
Evolutions have no Gold Conversion. Since they can only be obtained in the Season Shop, they are quite valuable even at 15,000 for the 3rd card-specific EVO.
The biggest issue with the shop has always been the casual F2P who can barely manage 3-6 wins in the Special Challenges.
All progression items + EVOs cost 134,000 Tokens.
A F2P with 50% Special Challenges win rate can earn 46,300 tokens or 35% of the shop.
F2P with 67% SC win rate earns 56,500 tokens or 64%.
F2P with 75% SC win rate earns 66,700 tokens or 76%.
F2P with 100% SC win rate earns 92,200 tokens or 105%.
This is assuming that 2 of the 5 Special Challenges will gift 5000 tokens too as the final, 12th reward.
Oh dang, nice break down. Thanks for this! I just did the break down for daily cap playing classic 1v1 & 2v2 & Game Events maxing out at 1000 purple tokens a day. I forgot to consider challenges.
Def gonna save your break down for future reference, appreciate it!
I think Evo ZAP, like Evo Skellies, is a evolution that's never gonna be truly bad. It's extremely useful and the low elixir cost means you can use it a lot in a matches. It's just not broken anymore.
As for the order, I always go: book, Evo wild shard, Legendaries I don't have maxed out, Epics I don't have maxed out, Rares I don't have maxed out (and use frequently) and Commons I don't maxed out (and use frequently). But I have most Evos, I would go for the shards first if it's an Evo you want or need for your deck(s)
in the context of
for f2p spending no gems
I think the evos are the most important thing to get. maybe my perspective is skewed as an older f2p player who has my main deck maxed already, but flexibility with evos is >>> than a book for cards I might not ever use
I think it really depends on the Evo because you only get half of the needed shards, so you gotta prioritise which Evo to get. If it's not an Evo you need, I'd rather have a random card upgraded than half an Evo, which in game is the same as no Evo
yeah but you can finish half evos with wild shards. it's a lot harder to do that if you only have 1/6 than 3/6
Get the Evo wild shard first, then the book, then you can either start getting zap Evo or just buy cards
Just wondering, why did you only include the cost of 1 Evo zap shard? Does anyone ever buy just 1? Usually I'm spending 30k tokens on whatever Evolution is in the shop. A massive difference from the 5k you accounted for.
After redeeming 1 Evo zap shard 1/1 I don’t believe we can redeem more? Unless it’s like the troop basic cards that replenish the 5/5 and get another set of 5 after redeeming.
So you’re saying you are able to buy multiple evo Zap cards with the 30k tokens you earn? At least 5?
If youre referring to the break down when you pick evo zap shard, how I got 30k is the total cost with all the cards mentioned (book, evo shard, evo zap, archer & sparky). Not just 1 evo zap shard
There are usually 3 evolution shards available each season. The first one costs 5k tokens. Once you buy that, a second becomes available for 10k, and the third costs 15k. That equals 3 Evo (zap) shards for a total of 30k tokens.
I assume most people would aim to get all 3 available shards each season and not stop after buying just 1, unless they aren't going for the evolution at all.
That alone eats up most tokens a F2P player will make in a season.
Damn yea I didn’t take into account for multiple times to redeem with the cost scaling up. But someone also pointed out we can get tokens through challenges, and today I got 500 from pass Royale.
So do you skip book and evo shard? Or you acquire extra purple tokens to afford them?
There's usually enough for the Evo wild shard with the free 2500k tokens you get on pass royale. I have an excess of books so I usually skip getting them or I get extra tokens from challenges or CRL finals depending on what month it is.
Does Evo Zap work with royal hog cycle decks
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Cool. GG. Keep it ballin 😎
Ofc u keep ballin😎
Man I wanted that coin. Why cant we have both?
Because then Supercell workers can't feed their families they are just an indie company
I mean they said that they have like 20 members (might have been misinformation, not sure) so not too far from wrong
Not too far from wrong
Expect that they are a part of a multi million dolar company
Terraria dev's are considered indie and it's one of the top selling games of all time.
Are you saying supercell is indie? Terraria started out as a 1-person passion project and still upholds that general theme and style of the game today even if it isn’t technically indie
I dont know about you but I can farm 100k gold so easily, however gathering 750 rares is a prison, I prefer the rare book by far
I agree. rares are the hardest to get and upgrade, and a nearly free bokk is extremely good
*1250 rares for upgrading a card from 13 to 14
ironically commons are more rare than "rares"
Coin is worthless since level 15
Being able to not spend 100k to uograde lvl13 cards sounds more than worthless
Idk saving almost 100k gold for a lvl 14 was gunna be a nice treat. Books are nice don’t get me wrong. But a coin is also nice. Not everyone is maxed out.
Idk about you but not everyone have full lv14 collection.
Not everyone has all level 14 cards you know.
then why can't we have both if it's so worthless
because of the chess event yea. Even if I wasn’t there during the chess event I would rather take the book
Why is everyone mentioning Magic Coin? I’ve never seen it in the shop before, can someone fill me in
Royale api gets some CR knowledge in advance; the images they had displayed the magic coin as of yesterday replacing the book
Ah, okay, thanks so much
They were planning to put magic coin to the season shop instead of book of cards,but they chamged their minds
they didn't "change their mind" everyone just screeched over it as per usual and supercell just went "ok lol, the book is half ewc anyway"
They probably did this for people to be happy to get a book instead of complaining its a rare/common book for the 5 millionth time in a row
Will there ever be a legendary book? If yes, when?
I don't think so but I hope it will coz rn I only need 2 logs to get it to lvl 13 so with a book I will get it to 14
I have a similar plan and have been waiting for weeks and weeks.
Waiting on a legendary book myself to get my card lvl 14 and I have the EWC saved up to get it to 15 instantly. I just need the damn book already lol
Last legendary book we got was in December
I understand the strategy of these company 😅
Yeah they know everyone hates them so that's their way of saying "oh look we actually care about you guys!!1!1" even though they literally changed nothing.
If the Hate and "love" was a game 😂 (better hate and vice 😂)
First time?
No, I've been in the game for 8 years and I still don't understand it,😂
What about those of us that wanted the magic coin??
They gave 250k gold
That's very little when you consider how much is actually required to upgrade cards at the latter levels. 35k + 75k + 100k = 210k. You can only upgrade about one card from level 11 to 14 with 250k and one from level 11 to 12, or two from 13 to 14 as well as one from level 11 to 12.
A magic coin is worth at max 100k. It is less valuable than a magic book, even more when you take in account the eleite wild card economy. But yes, they could have kept it, and honesty should...the whole point of the season shop should be for us to have options.
Chests give gold too and cw also if u play pol u can get around 70k gold
70k gold is a joke (not even enough from 12 to 13). Gold from chests was nerfed in the lucky drop update. CW gold is not that much either.
What about the time they gave us almost 2 million gold a couple months ago? Did yall just forget about that?
I wasn't playing
U got cards to do all these upg tho?
I have plenty of cards I could upgrade if I just had enough gold, yea
U should do everything that gives gold like donating playing challenges pol ladder gob ladder etc
I donate, but once you max out some cards and clanmates request them you get no gold from those. Gold is also needed for trading, you can trade your maxed out cards with gold for cards you don't have maxed. Challenges don't give gold unless you mean the chests from those, but you have to pay gems. I do PoL every season, feels like the wild cards stack up from that as well as from the lucky drops. Ladder and goblin ladder hardly give gold.
I mean challenges for tokens also if u do global tournaments u can get around 30-40k gold
Either you’re very unlucky or you’re nearing the ‘endgame’ of CR. I’ve been free to play for ~2 years if not more now (prior to that I had never bought battle pass, only gems occasionally) and I’ve leveled up quite a few cards to level 14 off of clan war and requesting/donating. Obviously some chests have been opened along the way but I only ever play clan war so hardly any of my gold has in fact come from chests. It takes some time but it sure as hell works.
And I spent half of that upgrading the new goblin cards for the gamemode.
well u need cards before you can upgrade, we can all unanimously agree book > coin
But once you have the cards you need gold, need both cards and gold
No fucking way
Alr supercell, we will take this sh*t
I wanted the magic coin
They give away more gold then the magic coin can give you nowadays
Still, it's just never enough gold
No way they still have banner tokens?
yeah they might have taken that away just to give it back after community complained. Seriously SC might actually have planned that lol, I don't have a lot of faith
They didn't listened the community. They are afraid of community.
They tried to remove the book. We reacted. They took a step back.
Supercell didn't give us anything extra.
lol what. We “reacted” to everything they’ve made in the last two years and this is the first thing they decide to change, why do you think it’s because we suddenly have leverage in negotiations? They changed it to give the illusion that we have a voice, not that we actually do, cus if our voice was actually being listened to a lot more would have changed by now. Supercell is definitely not afraid of its players.
“Afraiding”💀
Woah I was manipulated by supercell but you gave me an idea that everything they were doing was actually had something evil behind. You must be a genius for that!
you're really gonna say that? you criticize them for taking the book out and for putting it back? you cant complain about something and also complain when it gets changed.
If brawl stars did this, everyone would be celebrating how good the devs are. Why do you have to be so cynical?
yeah yeah yeah keep saying
Thats fun
It's about time they listened to us! This is a game-changer.
Ayo, WTF?
They took wild cards from us. That is way worse than the book.
On my opinion supercell usually listen to community but they always complains about every update and everything
how come in the shop i cant find magic archer?
U gotta unlock him
damm bruh my luck bad asl every legendary chest i open is a card i alr have 😔
yay we got our little scraps, thanks supercell you generous king for giving me a couple of grains of rice 🙏
I was trading away all of my battle rams in anticipation for a Rare book this month so I would be pissed otherwise Lmao
It really doesn't matter to me - 5000 EWC for a book or 5000 EWC for the 100k gold I could have save due to the coin...
I would have liked a book AND a magic coin, but oh well....
Dude listened that book is shit lmao
Did they skip the bomber Evo or did I miss it?
The skipped
its bullshit, it gives me goblin giant instead
Honestly would've rather had the coin
Great. Another card that can be maxed without the coins to upgrade. Good job community. /s
They gave 250k coins
Great. I still have tons of cards waiting for coins.
Why couldn’t they keep the coin and the book?
Don't be so impressionable and fall for the classic "door in the face" technique. This fix isn't nearly enough to compensate for the damages they have inflicted on their own game and community.
Apart from the wild shard there is not a single thing I need from the shop this season. Just getting whatever for EWC conversion. I really wish they hadn't removed wildcards. Two seasons in a row and I'm finally starting to break free from my clash royale addiction.
Add back wild cards already
Mini Pekka and skeleton cards!!!!
wdym? what did they change
Who tf wants books over a magic coin?
Exactly, and obviously Supercell would entertain requests which are much less valuable conveniently and rapidly
Ngl I’ll take a book over a coin everytime cause I still have a magic coin from months ago that I never used. Gold is way to easy to obtain for me books are much more rare.
because the chess event gave you 2.5 million coins. Magic coins aren’t really as worth much because of that event lol
I didn’t play during that, didn’t know it gave that many coins
yea that’s why magic coins aren’t really valued by some people that played during that time. IMO both the magic coin and the book of books should be in the shop
Us 👎🏻 even I have a maxed deck i still need books cuz the meta kept changing every stupid month nowadays and we need multiple maxed decks
You need gold to upgrade those cards
Gold is easy to obtain dawg 🤡 masteries exists
mastery gold is like what? up to 15k each, that only lets you upgrade from 10 to 11.
💀 my 3 cards are elite , 3 are 14 level and 2 of 13 level . I still have 400k gold and i didn't collected the gold they they gave today in shop
What about the cards outside one's deck? And you really don't have anything you can spend that 400k gold on? Surely you must have cards you can upgrade with that and see that it's not enough to upgrade them all.
Those of us that have mostly lvl 14 cards and need EWC over gold.
In my case I don’t need any more gold as all my commons, rare and epic are lvl 14. I still need some legendary and champions to lvl 14 but I have more than enough gold to do so.
Idk if this is a bug. But i cannot convert the book of commons into EWC even though i have all my commons maxxed.
Not sure if this applies to you but I heard it maybe because your goblin road tower isn’t maxed at 14 yet ? And since it’s technically listed as a common tower it could be forcing you to apply it to that. Sorry if I’m wrong but it’s the only thing I can think of.
I was thinking the same as you. My Goblin Tower is not lvl 14 yet. I will lvl up that tower to lvl 14 and let's see if that fixes the issue. Thanks for your reply.
All good fam 💪🏽 and I’m almost certain that has to be it. Hopefully works it’s self out for u.
I went to the goblin mode and clicked the tower and there is a prompt to use the book to get all the cards required to lvl up so yeah. I found the culprit xD
That's cause they didn't. They didn't add back the book of card. They first REMOVED it to add the magic coin and now they REMOVED the magic coin and put the book of cards in its place.
Yeah cause that’s what the community wanted lol
... Ok yeah you got a point. That's more like what I don't want. The cr dev team has a history of having to balance the economy whenever they add something that could benefit us. I hate it. There's no reason why they have to remove stuff to add other. I just don't get it.
There is a reason this game is free and it’s also a business. They can’t make it 100% viable to go free to play because that would destroy their entire business model.
It’s not like Fortnite where they can add skins and people will buy them. Would you buy a tower skin for 10$?
Then why does brawl stars do it? Tell me, how can bs keep giving us free rewards and not do financially bad?
Wait
Where are the evo shards?
(I uninstalled before the update did they remove the fucking evo shards?)
Its still there. Its just not in the screenshot
Ooh ok
genius
My brother in christ
Did you not read the fact that i had uninstalled?
And are you actually so out of touch with reality that you think that supercell wouldn't nerf progression and disallow f2p evolutions?
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Evo shards are still present. Magic coin is not there.
better do some research before commenting
They're still there.
No they didn’t?
Xbow 💀
I still have fun using xbow lol. Been my main deck since it could target air at release and had longer range
You used to be able to put a Tesla in front of it while it was hitting tower
Alright, fair enough
Bro open ur app before spouting bs lmao
I did, they removed evo shards. Instead of being able to buy 3 of a specific evolution, they only allow you to buy 1.
😂
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What’s the order of Value (minus the troop cards) is evo Zap worth working towards? Or is it better to maximize purple tokens on something else
Edit: Analyzed the math myself after sparking my interest. If you’re interested, I broke down how much purple tokens one will end up with at the end of the season prioritizing Evo Shard, Book, Archer & Sparky(combined) + picking up or opting out evo zap.
TLDR; Book + Evo shard + evo zap + Legendaries (Archer & Sparky) for f2p spending no gems - will leave you with 5k or 5 days left to spend on something else vs. 10k or 10 days at end of season.
If we don’t use gems and play only the 1000 purple tokens daily after collecting every day, at a starting point of 35 days (season duration) gives us a total balance of 35,000 spending allowance for the whole season.
1000 tokens = 1 day basically
(Breakdown math if you choose to SKIP evo zap) Evo Shard = 6k = 6 days Book = 10k = 10 days
Legendary cards Archer(4.5) + Sparky(4.5)= 9k = 9 days
Total so far 25k = 25 days
35k(total allowance)-25k=10k At this point we’re left with 10k or 10 days to grab the rest.
****side note: Out of the 5 troop cards which start at 500 purple tokens then bumps up to 1000 for another 5 opportunities to grab, cost 7.5k or 7-8 days total if you wish to max out 1 like the mini pekka
(Breakdown math If you PICK evo zap)
evo shard + book + evo zap (costs 5k) = 21k or 21 days
Archer + Sparky = 9k or 9 days
brings the total to 30k
leaving us only with 5k or 5 days left to maximize other basic cards.
After thinking about it more after my initial comment. I don’t really play zap nor do I foresee supercell putting in more evo zap shards into the shop again and again. I have the evo barbs from Valentine’s Day that are stuck at 3 evos shards shy of 3 to evolve and havent seen an opportunity from SC to get more evo barbs since then. Therefore, I’d sacrifice evo zap to not miss out on the opportunity cost acquiring 2 full basic troops vs 1 full from the shop.
Lastly, I did this breakdown including sparky and archer cause imo I rarely come across legendaries in the loot. Hopefully reading this was as helpful to you as it was to me in making a game plan for what to redeem this season.
Best of luck see y’all on the battlefield. Cheers 🙌🏼 Heeheeheehaw