The Ultimate Guide to Bundles

Let’s dive into how the calculation of the value of bundles is done, what variables are used, and how to utilize our latest tools for bundle evaluation!

Main Terms

When calculating the values for bundles, several key terms, principles, and input data are used.
Let’s start by defining the terms that will be used throughout the article and that are applied in other sections of the website. Terms are presented in alphabetical order.

1. Assumed Price – a conditional, yet justified price for an item that is not directly sold in the in-game store. After such an item becomes available for direct purchase, its Assumed Price may become the Standard Price.
2. Card Difference (card diff) – the difference between the number of new Series 5 cards obtained from purchasing a specific bundle vs the number of cards that could be obtained by purchasing Collector’s Tokens via the Token Shop for an equivalent sum, assuming Gold is spent entirely without any leftover.
3. Conversion Rate – the ratio between the currency received and the currency spent.
4. Cosmetic Value – the percentage difference between the price of a bundle and the Standard or Assumed Price for similar content, including avatars, variants, titles, card backs, emotes, card borders – everything that serves a cosmetic function and does not directly affect gameplay.
5. Credits / Gold – the ratio of Credits included in the bundle to the cost of the bundle, which shows how many Credits you’ll receive for each Gold spent when purchasing the bundle.
6. Currency – Gold, Credits, Collector’s Tokens.
7. Gold to Tokens Conversion – purchasing Collector’s Tokens with Gold in the in-game shop.
8. Gold to Credits Conversion – purchasing Credits through the shop tab or buying missions through the missions tab.
9. New Series 5 Card – a Series 5 card that was first released this week.
10. Progress Value – the percentage difference between the price of a bundle and the standard price for similar bundle contents, including Credits, Gold, and Collector’s Tokens – all of which contribute to the process of acquiring new cards.
11. Recurring Bundle – a bundle that belongs to the series of Token Tuesday bundles, Booster Packs, and other bundles that tend to recur with an identical name.
12. Snap Packs Update – an update scheduled for release on April 29, 2025, in which the Spotlight Caches system from the Spotlight Update has been completely removed and replaced with Snap Packs. Even though the update has a significant impact on the game’s economy, the calculation of the value of bundles has hardly changed. As a result, comparing bundles before and after the Snap Packs update is possible, although it’s recommended to compare only bundles within the same card acquisition system whenever possible.
13. Spotlight Update – a game update that was released on July 12, 2023 (game version 17.17.0). In this patch, the economy and card acquisition system was significantly changed, which made it nearly impossible or incorrect to compare bundles from different systems (before and after the patch) without conducting additional adjustments and corrections. All bundles on the site are calculated according to the new system. The old bundles released before the Spotlight Update are present for archival purposes, and direct comparison with the modern bundles is incorrect.
14. Standard Price – the cost of items or currency when purchased through the in-game shop, assuming their permanent availability (for example, the price of the constantly available conversion of Gold to Credits).
15. Tokens – Collector’s Tokens included in the bundle.
16. Total Tokens – the total number of Collector’s Tokens that can be extracted from the bundle:
    • Collector’s Tokens included in the bundle;
    • Collector’s Tokens obtained from progressing through the CL track using Credits included in the bundle;
    • Collector’s Tokens acquired by converting Gold included in the bundle into Tokens when purchasing 2,500 Tokens for 3,100 Gold.
17. Total Tokens / Gold – the ratio of Total Tokens to the cost of the bundle, which shows how many Collector’s Tokens you’ll receive for each Gold spent when It shows how many Collector’s Tokens you’ll get when purchasing the bundle and using all the bundle’s resources to convert them into Collector’s Tokens.
18. Total Value – the cumulative percentage value of Progress Value and Cosmetic Value.
19. Unique (Named) Bundle – a bundle that don’t fall into the category of Recurring Bundles and often have unique names.
20. Web Shop – the official shop associated with Second Dinner, where bundles and other items can be purchased with USD at a more favorable rate due to the use of other countries’ currencies with a beneficial exchange rate as the payment currency.

Main Principles And Variables

Now let’s define the principles used in calculating the value of bundles. Without defining such key points, it’s impossible to accurately determine the value of a bundle.

1. Prices in real currency are expressed in USD, based on in-game prices, excluding temporary promotions, discounts, and regional pricing, unless stated other.
2. 700 Gold is equivalent to 10 USD, according to the second offer in the in-game shop. This ratio is chosen for several reasons:
   • 10 USD is the price of a season pass, and 700 Gold is the price of a variant. Both are constantly available deals, and due to this permanence, it is convenient to base calculations on them.
   • If we calculate based on the most expensive offer in the shop at a price of 100 USD, offering 8,000 Gold, it can be misleading in situations with a low cost because it would imply that, for example, when a bundle is priced at 10 USD, a player always has the alternative to buy 800 Gold for this price. But in reality, such a ratio will not be available to them unless they spend 100 USD.
   • With such a calculation, the Welcome Bundle priced at 3 USD with a variant, avatar, and 700 Gold justifies the 8x Progress Value tag placed by the developers. In this case, the content’s Total Value becomes equal to 25 USD, which is 8.3 times more beneficial.
     If we calculate based on the most expensive bundle, the total value of the content would be equal to 21.87 USD, which corresponds to a Total Value of 7.29, which does not round up to 8.
3. The price of a variant is determined based on its expected value in the Collector’s Vault. Since the exact cost for a specific variant can’t be determined until that variant becomes available in the Collector’s Vault, the value of 1,859 Gold has been taken as a basis as of April 2025 – this is the average cost of a random variant available in the Collector’s Vault on the specified date.
4. The price of a Mystery Variant is set at 700 Gold, as you can only get Variants for that specified cost.
5. The price of a Premium Mystery Variant is set at 866.67 Gold, which is the average value of the obtained variant. This is because in every 9 Premium Mystery Variants, there are only 6 Rare Variants at 700 Gold each and 3 Super Rare Variants at 1,200 Gold, and after obtaining them, the cycle repeats.
6. An avatar is equivalent to 325 Gold, as with only two possible price points for avatars at 250 Gold and 400 Gold, the average value is indeed 325 Gold.
7. An emote costs 2,200 Gold, as that’s the amount needed to purchase an emote through the in-game shop.
8. The cost of a border is set at 750 Gold, as this is how much you’ll need to spend for one of the community’s favorite borders – Neon White and Cosmic borders in different colors except for black and rainbow. The specified rule may be changed in the future.
9. The title and card back are valued at 350 Gold, which is half the cost of a rare variant. This price will be set until the option to purchase them directly becomes available. Additionally, they both serve a similar function and are displayed on the match loading screen.
10. 2,500 Collector’s Tokens are valued at 3,100 Gold, which gives a value of 0.806 Tokens per Gold, and this will be used for calculations. It was decided to choose this value specifically because 3,100 Gold is an achievable amount within a season, not too high and not too low compared to other options. Furthermore, it is more familiar, as the best Token Tuesdays had the same ratio.
11. 150 Credits are equivalent to 120 Gold. This is the cost of purchasing two additional missions (one for 50 Credits and another for 100 Credits) in the missions menu. The same ratio is found in the shop when buying 500 Credits for 400 Gold or 1,500 Credits for 1,200 Gold. In this case, you won’t receive experience for completing missions, but the value is the same.
12. Tickets are not taken into account in the calculations since they can be relatively easily obtained in Conquest, and the value of Medals and Tickets, as a consequence, is finite in terms of account progress.
    If you actively play Conquest, you will have plenty of tickets of various types anyway. If you don’t actively play Conquest, why would you need tickets if you don’t plan or want to use them? Buying Medals in this case could still look somewhat justified, but from this perspective, tickets have no value.
13. Boosters are not considered when evaluating the value, as active players will always have enough boosters for Collection Level progress. And if there aren’t enough, a few games in proving grounds will allow players to safely obtain more boosters without any risks.
    Overall, boosters as a resource are not worth Gold and USD. The value of a specific type of booster for creating beautiful splits is too individual and difficult to assess due to differences in tastes and the number of specific boosters each player has.

More information about boosters and how to target specific cards for the boosters you earn at the end of a match can be found here:

The Ultimate Guide to Boosters (And How to Target Them)

The Bundles Page

Here is the main page of the bundles. When you navigate to it, you’ll see a lot of things. So let’s break down the elements of each section. All calculations here are based on the principles and terms described in the previous sections.

1. In the first section, you can see the bundle’s name, its contents, availability dates, and a link to a guide if it’s available. If not, clicking on the Bundle Guide button will redirect you to the page with the bundle details. Also, for any bundle, you can open the details by clicking on its name. Read about the bundle details page in the next chapter.
2. The second section contains a number of elements used to determine the value of a bundle:
   • Price of a bundle, next to which there is a “filter” button. By clicking on the button you will be shown bundles only with the specified price within the limits of other selected filters.
   • Rating – assigned based on a comprehensive comparison of the bundle with other bundles. This is the only subjective indicator used in the bundles section, and it’s your choice to trust it or to analyze the bundles independently using the many tools available. Overall, a rating below 3 stars indicates a below-average bundle, 3 stars – an average bundle, 5 stars – an exceptionally good bundle, which are quite rare.
   • Value – here are shown 3 main indicators that are applicable to any bundle. Progress Value, Cosmetic Value, and Total Value.
   • The Card Difference scale shows the difference in the number of new cards for players with almost complete collections compared to buying Tokens at the price of the bundle. The Card Difference value answers the question “How much more profitable is it to buy a bundle instead of Tokens via the in-game shop?”. Based on the position of the bar on the scale, one can understand the bundle’s position relative to the minimum, average, and maximum values for bundles at the same price as the bundle.
     Thus, this scale is designed to compare the bundle with other bundles in the same price category in terms of profitability compared to purchasing Token Tuesday bundles.
3. The third section is the largest, so we decided to make it last. This section contains various functionality for filtering bundles and changing the display of bundle values on the page.
   • The top row contains toggles for changing the display of the bundle time period: all bundles, current and future bundles (if known), past bundles released after the Spotlight Update, and bundles released before the Spotlight Update. In the same row, there is a button for guides, which, when clicked, will take you to the page with all the guides related to bundles.
   • Below is a search bar for bundles by their name or price – both in Gold and in USD, for the latter the value should be indicated with a dot, like: 9.99. Also next to it is a filter for the currency.
   • Next are the sorting buttons for bundles based on a variety of criteria: rating, date, Progress Value, Total Value, number of new cards per 700 Gold (or 10 USD), Credits for Gold, Tokens for Gold, Credits for USD, Tokens for USD, and Gold for USD.
     With the change of this setting, the second section is also altered (apart from the choice of sorting options by date and rating). Now, the bundles are not only sorted in the order you selected, but they also contain a scale for evaluating bundles according to the chosen criteria. For instance, below you can see an example of how a bundle is displayed when setting the filter to Credits per Gold.
   • Next, you can also filter bundles by rating.
   • Another setting is the selection of a period for calculation when determining the values on the scale and chart, in comparison with other bundles. In other words – you select the period of bundles that the current bundles will be compared against.
   • The last option here is the filter of bundles by price. Here are all the known prices for bundles. And next to this setting is a button to reset all the above filters.
     

Bundle Details Page

When you click on any bundle from the main page, you’ll be taken to the bundle details page. This page can also be divided into three parts. Let’s take a closer look at them.

1. The first segment includes the same elements that you see on the main bundle page. Here you can see the contents of the bundle, its price, rating, and the value scale, which changes when the settings are adjusted, along with the chart from the third segment.
   The main purpose of this segment, besides showing what the bundle contains, is to convey a subjective value of the bundle’s value in the form of a rating with a maximum value of 5 stars. This rating might not always suit you since it’s subjective or, in some cases, could be slightly outdated. Therefore, there are two other segments available.
2. The second segment also contains the bundle’s contents, but with the addition of various parameters and values of the bundle, calculated based on the principles and variables mentioned earlier.
   The primary purpose of this segment is to demonstrate the absolute value of the bundle, expressed in various values. Here you have access to a wide range of calculated values that may be useful to you when evaluating a bundle.
3. The third segment contains a comparison chart for bundles. The purpose of this segment is to show you the relative value of a bundle compared to other bundles based on various criteria.
   • The chart is fully interactive. You can zoom in and out, as well as drag it around.
   • When you hover over any point on the chart, the name of the bundle corresponding to that point is displayed at the top of the chart. When you click on this point, a new tab will open with the bundle’s details.
   • The selected bundle, on whose page you are currently on, is highlighted with a gray vertical bar.
   • The red horizontal line on the graph represents the minimum value of the selected bundle parameter (by default – Progress Value), while the green horizontal line shows the maximum value. The white horizontal line indicates the average value of the selected parameter, and the yellow-orange line represents the value of the current bundle.
   • Below the chart, dates are displayed; you can change the selected period either using the buttons within the chart element or using the filter below it. Clicking the All button will display all bundles released after the Spotlight update. The calculation is also carried out only among the bundles displayed on the chart.
   • Beneath the chart is the familiar filter from section 3 of the bundles page. When you select a criterion for comparison, the chart changes along with the value scale at the very top.
   • At the very bottom, there are 3 additional filters.
     • Compare within the same currency – when enabled, it shows and takes into account in calculations only bundles that cost the same currency as the bundle on the page you are on.
     • Compare within the same price – when enabled, it shows and takes into account in calculations only bundles with the exact same cost as the current bundle. If a bundle costs 10 USD, then enabling this option will show and take into account only bundles priced at 10 USD.
       Additionally, the Add a 25% price margin toggle appears. It allows expanding the display and accounting boundaries of bundles by 25% of the price. Useful if the bundle has a non-standard price or if the sample size for an accurate comparison is too small.
     • Compare only with unique (named) bundles – as the name suggests, removes Recurring Bundles from display and consideration, leaving only unique (named) bundles. Useful if you want to compare a unique bundle with similar ones as accurately as possible.

Now, using all the tools described above, you can evaluate bundles on your own! You can see the subjective value in stars, the absolute value in numbers, and the relative value in comparison with other bundles.

You can try these settings yourself, for instance, on this page.

Spotlight Update (Archived)

The information here may be useful for comparing the Spotlight Caches system and an even earlier version.

Final Words

Now you know the basis for all the numbers in the bundle section and understand how to work with our tools to grasp the value of bundles! Different aspects of comparison, including within price categories, should seriously help in making a purchase decision, even if we don’t know what bundles are coming up.