Rule of Thumb Number One: Never sell upgraded cards unless you have more than six copies, and never sell unupgraded cards unless you have over 12 copies total (unupped and upped).
Suppose you’re accumulating wealth and you decide you’ll never play with Aether cards, so you sell them all. If down the road you enter a PvP Event or a Tournament which requires Aether cards, you’ve paying about a 40% markup over each card you sold. And the waste adds up quickly.
Why six and twelve? Because the most copies you can have in a deck are six and you can’t unupgrade cards, having over six upgraded copies is superfluous. At the same time having ten unupped Flying Weapons and two upped Animate Weapons available means you can upgrade an additional four if you need to and still hold six unupped copies. If you win an additional upgraded copy you can sell an unupped copy and still be positioned ideally.
So if I'm following this correctly, the main reason to keep 12 of each card (6 unupped and 6 upped) is in case of PVP Events and Tournaments? If so, then since I never play in those, I don't need 12 of each in total, just 6 of each card (unupped plus upped), right?
I'm soooo confoooosed!
Thanks,
LSK Piano
That may be true, seeing as you can only create decks with 6 copies of each card, whether it be upped or unupped. Be aware though, that there are several cards which function differently upped and unupped (pandemonium, mutation, fate egg, nova/supernova come to mind)