Chaos Legion Airdrop - Gold Legendaries Strike Again, Again

in Splinterlands2 years ago (edited)

After getting two of the best GF Legendaries from my last set of 101 packs, I felt at peace that my luck had played out. I just wanted to hit one home run on the overall pack buying hunt, and wound up hitting back-to-back homers. While the cards are cool, just beating such odds was the most satisfying.

With 292 airdrop eligible packs for this newest drop of the 3 new cards, I felt good about my chances of 83% for getting one regular card each. If not, I'd get one on the market or likely in future packs.

For the new drops, I didn't know the release was going to be at 4 AM. I happened to be up for the Discord announcement and clearly needed to stay up to see what I got. I'm figuratively reverting back to my StarCraft Brood War gaming days and am currently ok with it.

At 4:00, it was time to check each drop. First up was LIRA THE DARK.

As I opened the claim, I read the reward odds first without looking below. Moving on, I saw 0 standard cards and immediately figured this one was a miss. I looked below just to make sure it'd be a 0, did a double take (literally) to see 2 more gold legendary foils. Whaaattt???

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Besides being generally odd-defying once again, I am baffled. I'm thankful for these and can level them up for the speed bonus, but can't use the L3 until my summoners ramp up. I'm only at L3 summoners right now.

What I was most thrilled about was the 25K in Collection Power. That's more airdrop weight than 2 land plots. With my Gold Quix and Gold Chaos Dragon getting me another 25K in CP, that's a massive boost for me to a sneaky 104,165 CP owned. I'm excited to get more SPS for these and boost my puny voucher yield rate again.

Also, the second card will be good for a passive rental since there's no need to combine them yet. This will be my first solid card I can rent and not want to have in my deck for battles.


As I'm cruising in Silver 1 now, and winning at a fairly high clip in recent days, my DEC earnings are starting to stack up. I definitely turned a corner there and am much more motivated to play for the earnings and streak bonuses. Playing with lots of gold cards is also helping, along with a 2% guild bonus. This DEC will slowly build to help with my SPS airdrop weight.


As for the other airdropped cards, I got 1 normal IZA THE FANGED and 1 normal GRUM FLAMEBLADE. I'm not sure how many packs I'll be buying to open in the near term, as the ones I get will be held until more airdrops come out to allow them to be within the packs, so I'll probably buy my way to a L2 GRUM.


After a phone call from @blewitt to get me more hyped about the future, I'll just keep building slowly. I feel that I have plenty of cards to excel in Silver 1, and ultimately stack some modest DEC/SPS from game play. I still want to use my post payouts to buy loose cards for a bit. I do have some funds available for a few plots, but prefer to buy one at a time. The same goes for packs. While past pack airdrop luck doesn't indicate future luck, I do want to accrue more as the guaranteed requirements bump up. It looks like the pack sales will take a while, so I can do this in comfortable pieces.

Here's the current Gold Legendary armada I'm slowly growing. I'll hold them and see where they take me, especially with a second LIRA to possibly be reserved for working my land.

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How'd you fair from the last round of airdrops?

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Dam, thats sweet Matt, you gettin some bangers lately, congrats man, good scores. Keep that luck alive.

Thankfully I'm not a gambling addict to think I need to buy Alpha and Beta packs for similar results (yet).

What incredible luck you have - buy a lotto ticket!

Amazing! Big win!!

Wowza, that's amazing luck for sure!

I claimed right away, so maybe this gave me a super secret early bird odds bonus. What are the the favorite cards you've personally designed over the years?

wow you got the gold, congrats!

Dude nice job, That is some awesome luck,

Dam the collection power alone is worth it 😂

Exactly, they're so damn efficient in that department. Without having any until this week, I didn't really even think about it. I was thrilled with my 2,500 CP card being my prior high card, never really thinking my pack volume would get me even 1.

Whoooaaa!! Awesome! That's insane. Congratulations :D

You're killing it, dude! Two golden legendaries of the same card is massive!