Marvel Snap October 2023 Bloodstone Season Bundles Guide – Value and Comparison Chart

1. The price in dollars, next to the price in Gold, is calculated based on the conversion of 700 Gold to $10. The main reason for this is that if you take the more expensive and profitable offers to buy Gold, the more expensive bundles for Gold will turn out to be more profitable for those who bought Gold directly. In addition, there are two very popular values in this deal – 700 Gold is the price of a variant in the shop, and $10 is the price of a season pass, which allows for a more universal comparison system.
   This starting point allows us to make the comparison more balanced and even, especially since the exact prices will be difficult to set because of the different currencies and the ability to buy items through the Nuverse Shop at a discount.

2. The number of Collector’s Tokens per Gold is calculated by dividing the total number of tokens by the bundle price in Gold. The total number of Collector’s Tokens in the bundle is calculated by adding the Collector’s Tokens from the bundle to the tokens you get when you contribute all the Credits to increase the Collection Level and buy Token Tuesday bundles for Gold.

3. The maximum Tokens per dollar shows the maximum possible number of Tokens you can get if you effectively use the contents of a particular bundle. This assumes that you will convert all Gold from the bundles into Tokens via Token Tuesdays.

4. Progress value means how many times more profitable it is to get currencies used to increase the Collection Level (Gold and Credits) and get new cards by buying a bundle, than to get the same resources through a standard currency conversion through the shop. Token Tuesday bundles are used to calculate the value of Collector’s Tokens, as they are the only remaining way to buy them directly since getting Collector’s Tokens through the Gold-Credits-CL conversion gives too little Collector’s Tokens to be considered seriously as a way to get them.

5. Сosmetic value means how many times it is more profitable to buy cosmetics with the bundle (avatar, title, variant) than to buy similar items in the shop. The price for avatars and titles is based on a price of 350 Gold. This is simply half the cost of any basic variant in the shop. Also, Second Dinner setting the value to 8x on the Welcome Bundle makes it clear that avatars are worth exactly 350 Gold. Card backs are also valued at 350 Gold. There is currently no way of objectively estimating how much a card back is worth.
   However, the price of 350 Gold was based on the fact that card backs, avatars, and titles are barely visible during a match and they have no option of further customization like variants do. There was also an opinion poll on my twitter which showed that 61.6% of over 4,500 players think that card backs should be priced at 350 Gold (or lower). Therefore, until there is a way to estimate the value of card backs more accurately, 350 Gold will be taken as the basis.
6. Premium mystery variants began appearing in bundles in October 2023. They differ from the regular Mystery variants in this way:
   1. You can’t get a pixel variant;
   2. From it 3 out of 9 variants will be from super rare variants pool (1,200 gold);
   3. 6 out of 9 variants will be from rare variants pool (700 gold).
   Thus, a premium mystery variants gives an average value of about 867 Gold, which is taken into account in the calculations.

6. The row named Series 5 difference means how many cards you get when you buy the bundle compared to spending the same amount of Gold (or $) on Token Tuesdays as the best way to get cards compared to converting Gold into Credits. In other words, this is the number of cards you get when you buy the bundle ON TOP of the number of cards which is considered normal for that amount of currency spent.
   For these calculations Tokens are used to buy Series 5 cards, Gold is used to buy Token Tuesday bundles (it’s much more efficient than converting into Credits for the purpose of obtaining new cards), and Сredits are used to raise the Collection Level to get new cards through Spotlight Caches.
   Since a player with an almost full collection is defined as a condition, an average player will get more cards this way. It is also assumed that such a player will receive a new card every 2.5 Spotlight Caches on average. Also, since a new card can be either a Series 4 card or a Series 5 card, all calculations are based on the fact that a player will receive Series 5 cards as he bought Series 4 cards on Collector’s Tokens obtained naturally, without buying any bundles. And if a player buys a card, it’s always a Series 5 card, as previously stated). You can find more info about these calculations in our ultimate economy guide!

7. Boosters are not included in the calculations because they have no real value due to how easy it is to get them later in the game.
8. The chart contain the amount of new Series 5 cards for a player with a nearly completed collection for every $10 or 700 Gold spent. These values will be useful alongside the card difference value versus buying Token Tuesdays (Series 5 card difference value at the bottom of the chart). This way, you will be able to more accurately compare bundles within each bundle group – both for Gold and for dollars.

8. With the new system, you should first pay attention to the value of the Difference in Series 5 Cards. It’s also worth looking at the Tokens Per Gold/USD if you want to buy specific cards from the shop. Cosmetic Value and Progress Value will also help you understand what a particular bundle is good for.

• For the “Collector’s Tokens per Gold” row, a value less than or equal to 0.3 is considered bad (red highlight). A value in the range of 0.3 to 0.71 remains white and indicates a good value. In other words, this value is equal to or slightly lower than Token Tuesday bundles. The most profitable bundles are highlighted in green and have a value above 0.71. These are the bundles we advise players to buy if they want to get as many Collector’s Tokens as possible in the long run.

• In the Cosmetic Value and Progress Value rows, we use red highlighting to display bundles with a value below 1, which means that it is more profitable to get the same resources through standard conversion methods. The base white color is for values between 1 and 2 and indicates the offers are above average. A green highlight is used for values more than 2; these are very good offers in their categories (cosmetics and collection progress) and should be the target for the players who want to get the most out of it.

• For the Difference in the number of new cards row, a red highlight reflects values less than 0, a green highlight is used for values more than 0.25, and white for values between 0 and 0.25.

This time, instead of the regular mystery variant in the bundle, we got its premium version, which is different in this way:

1. You can’t get a pixel variant from it
2. 3 out of 9 variants will be from super rare variants pool (1200 gold)
3. 6 out of 9 variants will be from rare variants pool (700 gold)

So the average price of such a variant is 867 gold, making this bundle equally favorable for both cosmetics and progression.

It’s still not the best way to spend your money, but at least it’s more profitable than buying just 700 Gold from the shop.

For the perceived price of $15, this bundle is barely better than standard in-game shop prices. While it offers enough for its price, it’s not enough if you look at any other $15 bundle. Better take a look at something else.

Even having the premium mystery variant doesn’t help this bundle much, as for this price we usually see much better content.

Another case where the bundle has a lot of value, but in reality your $5 could have been invested in something better. A random variant can both please and disappoint you, and the Credits probably give too little impact for you to make the decision to buy it.

This is an interesting bundle, but not because it’s worth buying. It’s the first time a Mystery Pack bundle will be sold for Gold instead of USD.

As for the bundle, it’s basically the standard Gold to Credits conversion that is available to you at all times, just with a random variant on top. The price of 1,000 Gold can be worth a lot more than that if you buy something else.

This is another Mystery Bundle for Gold, but this time it offers less progression value than the in-game shop. Of the 2,000 Gold spent, you could invest 1,400 Gold to buy a Token Tuesday containing the same 1,000 Collector’s Tokens, and convert the remaining 600 Gold into 750 Credits. This bundle is at least 150 Credits short of being acceptable in terms of progression value.

And while Premium Mystery variant helps improve things a bit, this bundle still remains a controversial purchase.

This bundle, costing 10 USD, would be a great deal if cost a matching 700 Gold! But for USD bundles, you want to see a lot more content. 1,250 credits is not a very flexible currency, and the variant is very random. The bottom line is that the value per dollar is not too bad, but at an pretty average level.

Now this is not a bad bundle! The Credits aren’t bad, and the Gold is great. Their quantities match the price, and you get a random variant on top. Overall, this is a good deal (albeit with an element of randomness).

Compared to Mystery Pack #7, this one looks like a joke. For the same price, you get 250 more Gold but 1000 fewer Credits. This is not an equal exchange at all, so you’d be better off not spending your money here.