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Introduction

Well I wanted to talk about my thoughts on the balance patch notes but I faded that. Kstreet has done a brilliant job of breaking it down and there's not really much I could add to what he said so please do check out his post for some reasoning for the buffs, nerfs and changes for the latest balance patch. Instead I will just talk about three ideas that the GU team should do. One is being able to rent out our cards. Two would be introducing dual/multi-colored gods & cards. The third is multi-card forging. I'll end with my weekend rewards as usual.

Rental System

I believe older GU players have extra duplicates of cards more than they can use in their deck and some of these cards are too expensive to forge to diamond quality. Instead of being able to rent our cards via p2p - player to player or just straight selling them, there should be a way for us to have a marketplace where we can rent out these extra cards. As the game goes on, the older editions won't be as available to new oncoming players and I feel by implementing a rental system, it gives a convenient, affordable way for new players to access these older edition cards. Not only that but this gives more value to cards and there's meaning to keep them because they can provide a consistent revenue stream for players to use that money to pour more money into the game.

Kstreet has told me that IMX is upgrading to full zkevm which he said smart contract renting will be possible. I hope the team pounces on this and considers creating a rental system. Currently, I have sent some of my extra cards to a new wallet and linked it to my friend's account. I find this not very convenient to do; it takes a lot of time to transfer each card manually to another wallet. Another thing that can be considered is delegating cards. Splinterlands allows card owners to delegate their assets to other accounts but they retain ownership over the cards so there's really no risk in delegating them. The team can easily implement 24 hour cooldowns to stop multi-accounting abuse if that's a problem. I really believe in the future of GU and these cards will definitely appreciate in value.

Dual/Multi-Colored Gods/Cards

I think Dual colored gods would be an interesting refresher to the gameplay and will bring out more styles of decks. It would definitely change the meta and make the game way more fun in my opinion. Wouldn't it be awesome to play death and deception together. There could be cool synergy here with nether zombies and steal card nether deception cards. What about War and Light; we could see some insane aggro olympian decks with this combination. Of course this seems too broken right to be able to play dual colored if we have new gods that are dual-colored. In order to make it balanced, I feel a way is to randomly choose 3 out of the 6 god powers for every battle. That way there may be some god powers you can't use consistently which offsets the advantage gained from being able to use cards from two different gods. Another way to make it balanced is by forcing them to play 40 total cards in the deck. This could be seen as a buff during late-game if the aim is to deck out but I feel by adding more cards in the deck it will make the deck less consistent. At this point of the game, I don't see them adding a new god with different god powers so this could be a way to increase the creativity of deck building as well as making the game more fun.

I think dual/multi-colored cards would be interesting as well. I think these cards could be crafted like with Band of The Wolf except that these cards have to be crafted with legendaries of two elements. So for this to work for example, we craft 1 Shadow Ganma and 1 Shadow Chira and we would get a dual-colored death & deception legendary card. These cards should be very special and hard to get which would make them super valuable! I don't think the cards should be op but they would already have the awesome utility of being able to play with two different gods or more depending on if the game developers want to go beyond dual and go multi-colored.

Multi-Card Forging

I don't think I'm the only one that wants this. We've had forging for a while now but we can only forge one card at a time. I don't think this is very efficient and it takes a long time. There has to be a way to make it more convenient for players that have a lot of cards. By the way for all those that don't know we still have about one week left for forging cards meteorite quality and higher for 0 cost. Please take advantage of this as I'm not sure they will ever do this again. I've already taken advantage of this but it was painstakingly long; I probably spent like 4-5 hours total just to get all the cards I wanted forged. Anyways, this isn't really a new idea but it's more of a quality of life change that is much needed.

My Weekend Rewards

My weekend event rewards are for Auric Gold Rank. I got 10 wins out of 18 battles. It was a pretty tough weekend and I hope it will be better for me now after the recent balance patch. I got 1 rare core packs, 2 epic core packs, and 2 rare mortal judgement pack. I also got 3 Band of Wolf crafting packs. Let's see if I get anything good for this week. I'm looking for the rest of my core legendaries. As for mortal judgement, I'm still hoping to pull my first diamond legendary. Alright enough talking let's open these packs!

Rare Core Pack

Epic Core Packs

Rare MJ Packs

Band of War Crafting Packs

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Well nothing great this time around :(. I hope I get some better rewards next week.

Thank You

Thank you for reading and supporting me. I will continue to post weekly updates on a new deck every Monday Malaysia Time and I will post some sort of Gods Unchained related content + my rewards from the weekend event every Thursday Malaysia time.

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