This is a very wrong way of thinking and I dislike recommending faction kegs so much.As others have mentioned, faction kegs are a great way for new players to build up their collection. This leaves a lacking neutral collection, and expansion kegs are a very ineffective way to fix that.
But the other one is also very important: faction kegs are INFINITE source of possible new cards (with every new expansion new cards appears in faction kegs). Unlike faction kegs, by buying expansion kegs you can gather ALL cards from some one expansion and then move to another expansion kegs to get next new cards. By buying faction kegs while hunting for new cards you will end with a lot of duplicates - it's much worse strategy that makes you lose your resources (getting new card from keg is much cheaper than getting scraps from some duplicated card and crafting the one you are missing).
Yes, but the difference is:I'm not sure I'm convinced about the importance you're attaching to this point. Why do you think the chances of ending up with duplicates is higher with faction kegs than with expansion kegs? Once you have majority of a faction's cards, most of that faction's kegs will yield duplicates. Similarly, once you have majority of an expansion's cards, most of that expansion's kegs will yield duplicates. The same rule of math applies to both.
Yes, but the difference is:
- You can actually FINISH buying certain expansion kegs and then move to the kegs from the other expansion - i.e. you are finishing "the chance of getting duplicates" from these.
- The content of every faction kegs is expanded with every expansion so they are not finishable.
Factions kegs should be bought ONLY by new players who has NOT got ANY ok-ish deck.
Faction kegs will allow to create such deck faster by "patching" one of the starter decks.
As soon as new player has such ok-ish deck he/she should switch to expansion kegs right away.
- You can actually FINISH buying certain expansion kegs and then move to the kegs from the other expansion - i.e. you are finishing "the chance of getting duplicates" from these.
- The content of every faction kegs is expanded with every expansion so they are not finishable.
Unfortunately, that's the start of "wrong" thinking: new player should buy faction kegs not to get the goal of "complete the faction", but to create the deck he/she is comfortable to win with - and that could be just a few new cards added to any starter deck so that does not require to buy many faction kegs.When I started playing the game I wanted to complete the monster faction first, so I bought faction kegs.
Unfortunately, that's the start of "wrong" thinking: new player should buy faction kegs not to get the goal of "complete the faction", but to create the deck he/she is comfortable to win with - and that could be just a few new cards added to any starter deck so that does not require to buy many faction kegs.