Today is a very special day for me, basically for 2 reasons: The first is that I complete 11 months of playing EtG, and the second is that I managed to complete the basic edition of my card collection (yayyy!!!
![Grin ;D](https://elementscommunity.org/forum/Smileys/solosmileys/grin.gif)
). This process took me over 5 months, and it all started when I realized that my connection wouldn't allow me to play a single pvp game without getting disconnected and therefore lose
![Cry :'(](https://elementscommunity.org/forum/Smileys/solosmileys/cry.gif)
. So I started grinding arena and FGs which was funny at first, but then got extremely boring (at least regarding FGs). My first goal was to get a total amount of electrum that would be higher than my current score (which was at about 200k back then iirc). Since I achieved that goal, I started thinking seriously of completing my card collection, so I needed huge amounts of electrum which I finally got from FGs and Plat (I was lucky enough to get some serious rewards on Plat and Gold during this period of time
![Tongue :P](https://elementscommunity.org/forum/Smileys/solosmileys/tongue.gif)
). Having already collected most of the upped cards out of FGs wins, I found myself with over 450(!) extra uppeds that I was actually gonna sell. But there was something missing... Checking back my rares I found out that I was missing 3 unupped SoIs and 1 unupped SoV. I got the SoV relatively quickly from Silver SS, but it was tottaly impossible to get the SoIs! So many SSs but I could barely find any...The result was that it took me over 2 weeks and I don't even know how many Silver SSs to finally get them. Sitting on over 1 million electrum I could now finish the upgrading of the remaining cards (mostly pillars/pends). Good thing is that I still have 300k electrum, so my next goal will be the trainer edition since theoretically I could get the standard one as well
![Cheesy :D](https://elementscommunity.org/forum/Smileys/solosmileys/cheesy.gif)
. I feel also like posting screenies of my collection below to verify this fact: