Golden Opportunities
In the mysterious and ever-changing arena of the Marvel Snap economy, gold–and free gold especially–is always scarce. Spending it wisely can make all the difference between fast-tracked progression and cash-strapped depression. Join us now as we look for the true gems among the gold bundles to find the best opportunities to spend Snap’s premium currency. Because this is based on datamined information, details are subject to change.
Chit Chat
Since I am tired of copying over the separate entries for Booster Packs and Token Tuesdays each month to tell you not to buy them, I have chosen to summarize them here together. Booster Packs are one of the worst values in the game, and you should never buy them. Token Tuesdays generally deliver a worse rate of return than non-recurring bundles. They can be worth purchasing situationally, but generally, you are better off saving your gold.
Booster Pack
Credits per gold: 0.83
Token Tuesday
Tokens per gold: 0.71
Not Enough Lift
In a welcome surprise, Rocket Power launched at 2,500 gold for 2,050 Collector’s tokens after being datamined as providing 1,500 tokens for 2,200 gold, which the economically astute will recognize as worse than the Token Tuesday rate. Though the ultimate release surpassed that threshold, it falls in the middling range compared to past gold bundles.
January’s Artist Showcase: Inkpulp rendered effectively twice the tokens while costing only 68% more. June’s I Don’t Like Sandman was not a great value, but it added 1,000 credits to Rocket Power’s haul for only 500 more gold. One peculiar additional piece of trivia, rocket Power is the only bundle ever, gold or cash, to provide tokens in an amount other than a multiple of 100. The 50 tokens beyond 2,000 are pointless since nothing is sold for so little, but there is nonetheless.
Rocket Power
Tokens per gold: 0.82
A Dim Outlook
Like the last bundle, Starlit Surprise was supplemented from pedestrian to mediocre. Now offering 3,000 Collector’s tokens and 1,000 credits for 4,500 gold makes December’s Oh No, He’s Hot!!! (3,000 tokens, 600 credits at 5,500 gold) It looks even less impressive in retrospect. However, Starlit Surprise disappoints next to a top-quartile bundle like last month’s Artist Showcase: Inkpulp (4,000 tokens for 4,200 gold). Note that the token rate is worse than Token Tuesdays’, so you should only buy it if you love the cosmetics and consider the credits good enough.
Starlit Surprise
Tokens per gold: 0.67
Credits per gold: 0.22
High Price of Admission
As February's third and final gold bundle, February 2024 Ticket 2 looks like the worst. 300 tokens and 600 credits for 900 gold puts it at the same rate of return as Token Tuesday or credit purchases in the shop, though it has a significant chance of receiving an upgrade before release as both of the other two bundles have. The conquest ticket has little value, so February Ticket 2 is an easy bundle to pass on if it stays as datamined.
February 2024 Ticket 2
Tokens per gold: 0.33
Credits per gold: 0.67
The Golden Mean
The selection of gold bundles has continued to shrink, down to a mere three non-repeating options in February after four in January and six in December. Worse, none of them are significant purchases, making this the worst month to wring value from gold since September at least. Rocket Power almost attains that level of that month’s Avast Ye, Admiral!, which is another way of saying that there is nothing that you should be in a rush to buy this month. In the long run, you are better served by saving your gold.
Best tokens per gold
- Rocket Power (0.82)
- Token Tuesday (0.71)
- Starlit Surprise (0.67)
- February 2024 Ticket 2 (0.33)
Best credits per gold
- Booster Pack (0.83)
- February 2024 Ticket 2 (0.67)
- Starlit Surprise (0.22)
Best overall currencies per gold*
- Rocket Power (1.45)
- Starlit Surprise (1.39)
- February 2024 Ticket 2 and Token Tuesday (1.25)
- Booster Pack (0.83)
*Expressed as credits per gold, valuing tokens at 1.75 credits based on the Token Tuesday rate of 1 token for 1.4 gold and the shop rate of 1 gold for 1.25 credits, and adding 25 credits for each new card and variant
We hope that illuminates the gold market for you and that you will join us again next month for a gander at March’s gold bundles!