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Originally Posted by LeeD
As the missions get older, the cost of completion (usually) drops dramatically, and the combination of selling the topper(s) and potential for pulling a great card out of the reward packs often outweighs the cost of completion. See Baseball Reference for an example. Lots of pack rewards, including Diamond and Perfect, plus saleable Perfect toppers which are also good cards in the lower-level leagues (Bronze and below).
Pack Rewards missions with Standard and Silver pack rewards almost inevitably end up as self-funding, by which I mean the value of the reward packs exceeds the minimal cost of completion (which is often a few hundred points months after mission drop).
Those are two examples, from high potential to low. Of course, the downside to completing missions is locked cards which could otherwise be sold. As an FTP player, I tend to sell high during the flurry over new missions (cards are overpriced) and then reacquire them later, either through pulls or purchases. A few weeks is often long enough to see prices drop from ridiculous to reasonable. For an extreme example, remember the Silver DeGrom card that was selling for hundreds of thousands when the 101 Pedro mission dropped? L10 is currently 218, which is about 1/1000th of what it cost right after it came out.
Bottom line: everyone who isn't just buying the latest cards with cash infusions needs pack pulls, and at least a decent number of them Diamond and Perfect packs, to keep up. Unless you're dedicating enough time to win big in tournaments and perfect drafts, the only way to acquire them consistently is to follow the mission streams or buy them (and buying them is a poor strategy, with the exception of some Spotlight packs). Twitch will get you up to ten per day (occasionally more), but they're Standards and Silvers. That means, maybe, a once-a-month surprise, which is not going to get anyone into the top leagues.
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I can buy into your strategy, but how do you handle all the tournament cards? Do you buy tournament cards with your profits from this strategy to complete tournament missions?
(The tournaments look challenging to me and I don't expect I'd be good a those, especially with the combinator focus.)
Most of the missions I've been stuck on (Sandy Koufax, Babe Ruth 102, Alex Rodriguez), it's the very high cost of diamond tournament cards that keep me stuck.