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It’s been a whole 3 weeks since the last bundle for Gold (Blade of Glory) was released. Second Dinner is starting to release bundles too rarely and keeps their value quite low… bad sign. But anyway let’s see what we have on the table this time and if such a bundle is worth buying.
Alas, it seems we have another weak bundle here.
109% Progress Value is barely above the base level, and 0.87 Total Tokens per Gold is below the recommended threshold of 0.9 Total Tokens per Gold. The only thing that could potentially save the bundle is the variant for Sage (Series 5 card). In its base version, it feels like the bundle doesn’t have a chance.
Comparison With Other Bundles
And indeed – the Progress Value charts show how much the Hey Kid I’m a Computer bundle sits below the others. Even over the last 6 months during which we’ve been given weak bundles again and again, there were only a couple of bundles clearly worse than Hey Kid I’m a Computer.
Among bundles priced around 4,000 Gold, Hey Kid I’m a Computer also has many competitors showing better numbers for Progress Value. Which of course isn’t great, but it’s not super telling. Let’s take a look at the main metric next.
Well, the Total Tokens per Gold value is just as sad.
While the average (and the baseline for a recommendation) is 0.90 Total Tokens per Gold, the Hey Kid I’m a Computer bundle only hits 0.87, with 0.84 and 0.85 being the worst values over the last 6 months.
And that’s despite the fact that we’ve seen bundles like Clone With A Cause and Wail Of A Time during this period with their 1.03 and 1.05 Total Tokens per Gold. There were also mid-range ones like Celestial Seeker (0.92) and Believe In Magik (0.92). Against their backdrop, Hey Kid I’m a Computer doesn’t look particularly impressive.
And of course, even though the Hey Kid I’m a Computer bundle includes Credits, it’s a pretty bad option for getting them efficiently. You’ll be exchanging them at a rate of 0.75 Credits per Gold, compared to the shop’s base value of 1.25 and the weekly Booster Packs value of 1.67 – which is hard to compete with, but being at least above the base value is definitely possible.
What if you don’t have Sage?
Of course, everything changes if you don’t have Sage, whose variant is included in this bundle. In that case, buying the bundle gives you this Series 5 card for free, which provides pretty good value.
Moreover, Sage isn’t a useless card like you sometimes see in such bundles, so you have every chance to get real and useful value instead of just nominal value by actually using the card.
Use cases for the Sage variant
Speaking of Sage’s utility in decks, the first thing that comes to mind is the recently nerfed Mr. Negative deck. Sage feels great there, although she doesn’t appear in every modern Mr. Negative deck.
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Sage also performs quite well in Bounce decks, but the problem here is more that Bounce is currently too weak and isn’t really represented in the meta.
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And of course, there’s the Agent Venom deck. Sage is also one of the main picks for deckbuilding there, although she isn’t 100% mandatory. The problem here is the same as with Bounce – the deck simply doesn’t cope with the flood of powerful cards filling the ladder, so it often loses without putting up the numbers needed to beat top meta decks. If this changes, Agent Venom could become a strong meta contender again, and Sage will be played as often as possible once more.
But as of right now, realistically Sage is only good if you don’t have a 100% polished top-tier Mr. Negative deck and you’re ready to include Sage, whom you also don’t currently own.
In general, the conditions are quite specific and I don’t think there’ll be a very large number of players who’ll want to get the bundle just for Sage. Moreover, it’s almost been two years since her release and it’s quite likely that everyone who wanted to get her has already done so.
Conclusion
Thus, we have a rather weak bundle with a variant for a card that isn’t the most useful in the meta.
The problem with all mixed bundles (with Tokens and Credits) is that they’re tuned in a way that it’s usually more profitable to pick another similar bundle that contains only Credits or only Tokens. At the same time, there are generally more disadvantages than advantages to this approach – not every player needs both types of resources simultaneously, especially since Credits always provide more value for beginners, while Tokens are almost completely useless for many veterans.
So a conceptually bad bundle leads to poor value and a low rating of 1.5 out of 5. And the comparison charts only confirm this.
So you can buy the bundle only for the sake of Sage if you need her, or keep buying the great Booster Packs every Monday – these are essentially the best bundles in terms of value in the game (except for bundles with a high-series card that you don’t have) or wait for a more suitable bundle.
Good luck to everyone and stay safe!
Also, don’t forget that you can evaluate this bundle in comparison to others using a variety of different criteria, utilizing the special chart on the dedicated Hey Kid I’m a Computer bundle page! Below is an updated guide on how to use our tools to evaluate bundles on your own.
Wrap Up
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