Great Post!!!
I was discussing this with @rentmoney and @aussieninja only yesterday evening.
Packs are awesome if you like to play the lotto, and I think we all do from time to time, but if you want to build a seriously competitive deck I think it's best to buy cards individually and save the packs for another time or use.
Like you also mentioned, buying in bulk during pre-sales, and selling for a small profit to buy the individual cards you need seems like a pretty solid tactic I imagine most of the players with the most impressive collections share.
Absolutely! I'd say almost my entire collection is made up from buying cards individually... I bought a few Dice to qualify for the airdrops but that's really it. The pack-buying is a serious long-term play for CL though... with 15M packs I have to assume it'll take a while for them to sell out... but when they do...
The SPS airdrop points for holding packs is 300... but a normal common DEC value is 5... so on average you'll do a lot better collecting SPS by holding the packs.
Amen! I wasn’t denying packs are worth buying, only pointing out something I wish I had considered more thoroughly early on. I’d have an immaculate collection (Rivaling Madonna’s, even, by God) if I had built and invested more wisely.