Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Undead Faction only Booster Packs - how many would you need?

https://www.playsaga.com/newsletter/#presale

So the Undead army is coming out. For many new players, the lure to reroll undead is present.


  • Assuming the current distribution of 1 rare, 4 uncommon, and 5 common troops, how many packs of the new undead faction would give you a good level 35 endgame army?
Let do the math:
Assume you want to field a MINIMUM of a good 225 CP army for World Conflict and all possible PvP:


I will make the following assumptions:

  • Non Factional Cards you can ignore. Heavy Cav, Cav Archers, Ballistas, Armored Behemoth etc. Firstly we won't get those in the undead packs, second we have them already in our existing armies.
  • Wilderness Defense forces we will ignore. You can always stock a defense made of non-factional troops. (Although Kheldara doesn't recommend it: http://sagathoughts.blogspot.com/2008/06/kheldara-interview-raiding-and.html )-
  • The commons and the rares shouldn't be hard to get.
  • Most rares are spells or large units like 20CP type units.
  • You have 675 CP total in a 225CP game.
  • Assuming a couple spells thats about 20 troop units.
  • Most 1 or 2 CP units will be commons. Rarely have I ever seen dense units be uncommons.
  • The best units currently are often the 6 CP units. Treants, Gryph riders, eagle riders, dark raven riders. These units are harder to get as they have a uncommon rarity based on the small unit size.
  • Out of 20 troop units you will probably field about 10 unit of these 6 CP uncommon unit types. This is about 40 card.
  • 4 Uncommon cares per pack, and probably 1 in 6 would be your 6 CP unit. (This is based on the distribution we are seeing now.)

This leads me to predict you will need about 3 packs to pull two 6CP unit.

This means you will need 60 packs to field 10 units of this stronger 6CP unit types.

60 packs sounds like alot, but there is a 11 for 10 sale:

"And as a special incentive to those who are looking to start an Undead army on the quick, for every 10 Undead Faction Packs purchased you'll get 1 additional pack free when the Undead launch!"

So you really need to buy 55 packs!

55 boosters at 3$ = $165

This isn't outragious as fielding 9 units of treants at 20$/unit is $180.

Lets check the commons and rares:

55 boosters = 275 commons = 11 25CP units. Assuming you field only 3-5 common units, this should be plenty.

55 boosters = 55 spells and large units. Assuming you field only 3-5 rare units, this should be plenty.

Overall is this a good deal? Yes pretty much.

You could easily get by with 30 or less boosters and trade to get what you needed.

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Anonymous said...

your analysis is spot on! i ran my own and ended up deciding 60 packs would do it nicely. i usually pull more junk than others and i figured the freebie packs would compensate for that. nice to see that my numbers ran parallel with yours!

Anonymous said...

That's incredibly expensive. I'm glad you guys don't mind throwing money around and resell them on the market for resources, because otherwise I'd never be able to field an army!

Saga currently plays like a non-MMO RTS, and I can expect to pay $50 for a non-MMO game, or $15/mo for an MMO game (I find the concept of paying for a client silly, so I wait for it to drop down to $20).

CCIE said...

Update on this. The FREE BOOSTERS that you get with buying 10 undead are REGULAR BOOSTERS.

Just FYI