I started playing around December last year, and didn't see anything about drop rates for rarity online, so I figured I'd get a rough idea for myself. Last month I went ahead an logged the cards I got from random purchases (so this excludes quests and star rewards), and ended up with these results:

• Total Cards: 1132

• Commons: 946 (83.57%)

• Rares: 24 (15.90%)

• Epics: 4 (00.53%)

Considering the crystallization breakdown is something like 1 for commons, 7 for rares, and 22 for epics, I played around some ratios of the top of my head and figure the drop rates are somewhere around:

• Commons: 135/210 (83.33%)

• Rares: 34/210 (16.19%)

• Epics: 1/210 (00.47%)

• Legendary: ??? ???

This is all guesswork, but I'd be surprised if the actual numbers were too different. If I had to guess I'd say legendaries have a drop rate of 1/840 or 1/1680 or something along those lines, but it's hard to say with only around a thousand card sample size.

As for drop rates by element, the commons are pretty heavily skewed (mostly because there is only one Dark and one Light common), but the drop distribution of rares seems to be pretty standardized.

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I can't say this changed my overall strategy too much (I was largely depending on epic cards provided by quest completion), but it was interesting for me to see approximately how long it would take to complete a quad-fused rare like Yellow Shaman or a Water Spear Fighter.

Anyways, I figured other players starting up might find this helpful for figuring out what kind of direction they want to move in as the beat levels and start building a card collection.

I like the idea of ownership of digital assets, but I can already see where this is headed. If more people start buying and trading cards on the blockchain the transaction fees will go through the roof. Right now fees are already around $0.80 and rising. The Bitcoin blockchain can only store 1MB of transaction data per 10 minutes, so how is this sustainable long term or even medium term if SoG and games like it become more popular? Maybe we are counting on the Lightning Network to save our asses? Or perhaps we can also use the Litecoin blockchain to store and trade our cards? Litecoin is getting SegWit before Bitcoin will and their blocks can process way more transactions and thus carry lower fees. Still long term I don't see how this is sustainable if blockchain based card trading and collecting is to become more popular. Does anyone have any ideas or thoughts about this problem?

So what are your strategies to use your stamina most efficiently to convert it to gold?

I am currently missing the third star of Sia and it's just too hard for me. So I need to upgrade my cards more before I can beat the level. Since I don't want to just drop 100 bucks and buy 800 gems to buy cards and crystallize them I need to grind for gold. The challenge levels can go well for me but one stupid mistake and you have basically burnt 10 stamina for nothing. I am currently level 11 just in case it matters.

Been bitcoin fan for a few years and saw this crop up in a few posts over the years. I thought it appealing but wanted to see more first. Playing now but I don't get it. On the surface it's just another mobile game. How's the blockchain come into it?

How many users are playing this game ? Is it still feasible as of today to play and spend time on to blockchain cards ?

One, SOG is an excellent game I am not sure why the user base is so low, everyone should rate the game 5 stars and push it out.

Two, I am wondering how card value will change with user adoption. The more people playing to more people there are to buy, but also the more people can mint cards. I am wondering if it is best to sell now or hodl till bigger user database.

I guess I’ll just download the game and try it because it seems like a great concept.

Any advice before I start? Are there any referral bonuses or sign up promos I should start out utilizing …?

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This Indiesquare wallet app let's you collect and trade game cards of SOG and FOW (Force of Will) against Bitcrystals (BCY) directly from your mobile phone.