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All of the discussion that I have been reading here has suggested that players have created all of these shadow guilds in order to take advantage of the Guild Matching to control all or most of the guilds that they are matched up against, in order to use the cell trading strategy to run up massive points in Wars.

And then joining those Guilds late in the Season just to get the Elven Queen card duplicates.

Because of the number of top 50 spots being taken by these Shadow Guilds. (possibly as many as 40 of the top 50 guilds) Because of the amount of time and effort to do this, I would like to suggest 2 other possibilities.


 * 1) Perhaps they are not doing this to get Dups of the Elven Queen for themselves. Based on the amount of money spend during Events, I would like to raise the possibility that it is being done for monetary gain! For each Shadow Guild from 21st to 50th spot you could sell 7 (maintaining control with the Guild master spot) spots on the Guild for money to get 5 Dups of the Elven Queen. If you controlled 20 of the 30 guilds from 21st spot to 50th spot, you could sell 140 instances of 5 dups each. Each of those could get you $100 and perhaps as much as $500. So, somewhere between $14,000 and $70,000 a month (a season is basically a month of time)?? And if you controlled 10 of the 17 guilds from 4th to 20th place. You would have 70 slots to sell of 10 Dups each. The 10 dup price would be at least 5 times more than the 5 Dup price. So, another $35,000 to $175,000. If this is the case then it could be an enterprising player(s) making a whole lot of money. Or maybe a rogue developer. And suddenly all of the time and effort to do this would make more sense.
 * 2) The other less promising possibility is a perverse player, just trying to screw everything up for everyone else. I know that you will discount this possibility, but I would never underestimate how perverse some humans can be.