After seeing Standard bundle with a completely new type of packs last week, it was obvious that Blizzard will drop more bundles containing those sooner or later. I guess it’s sooner, and the bundles we’re getting are… on the expensive side, let’s just say. But they sure seem to be profitable for Blizzard given that they’ve just recently released a Golden Classic Bundle too.
Golden bundles are NOT worth it if you just want to build your card collection. There are much better ways to spend your money. Golden bundles are mostly worth it for people who a) want to build a Golden collection, b) feel lucky (if you open a couple of Golden Epics or Legendaries from packs, then it’s a great deal Dust-wise) or c) are simply whales that will buy anything (nothing wrong with that, it’s your money after all).
All of that said, we have two bundles available. There’s Golden Standard Bundle, which you can get for $24.99 / €24.99:
- 5x Golden Standard Pack
- 1x Random Golden Standard Legendary
And then there’s Mega Golden Standard Bundle, which you can get for $49.99 or €49.99:
- 10x Golden Standard Pack
- 2x Random Golden Standard Legendary
The mega bundle simply doubles the price and contents of the regular one, so neither one is a better deal. As a reminder, Standard packs only contain cards from the current Standard expansions – Ashes of Outland, Scholomance Academy, Madness at the Darkmoon Faire (+Darkmoon Races) and Forged in the Barrens. Since they’re Golden, all cards that drop from them come in Golden versions.
The bundles will be available through June 2 (which most likely means that there’s a shop refresh on June 3, maybe coming with a 20.4 patch?). You can get both of them in-game, and regular version is also available through Battle.net shop.
Another new addition is Sparkles Card Back. It was originally obtainable through ranked play during Season 47 (February 2018). You can now get it for 500 Gold or $2.99 / €2.99.
As an extra note, we didn’t get any new Heroes this time. Last week’s Khadgar Hero Set still remains available.
Worst case is: 4 commons + 1 rare in each pack (4*50+ 1*100 = 300 dust/pk; 1500dust/bundle)
Worst case for small bundle is 3100 dust… which is better than the 100dust/$1 ratio I look for.
Hearthstone Economics Question.
(Stonewall is the Grand Master of Hearthstone Economics)
A player is trying to get arcane dust for specific acquisitions.
Is he or she better off buying regular packs for cash and disenchanting what is not needed
Or buying the golden pack and disenchanting what is not needed.
For simplicity assume that the actual cards in the pack are all useless and they all will be disenchanted to finance other purchases.