Talk:Jewel Rush/@comment-91.160.97.74-20200124013352/@comment-132.170.15.255-20200125230538

Pretty much every event in the last half a year or so has been geared towards stronger players. I've been playing for over a year, my main deck is >12k power, and I can't reliably finish top 20 on this event without spending at least a few rubies.

The guardians are set up so that every bit of extra power (up to whatever the theoretical max is right now, which is well above mine) means that you can farm more Bronze Trinkets per Event Energy. This means that it's generally not worth spending any gems unless you're near the very top tier of players, because the guys with 14k+ decks can get more points by spending the same amount--or less--than you do.

On top of that, the "prize" on one of these 7 day events generally isn't worth a damn, so really the only players who should bother to push are completionists with plenty of spare resources to burn. Right now, the most powerful decks are as follows:

-Fairy, Nature, or Passion 7 card set for +75% bonus over base. (Level 25, 5 star ofc)

-Soulbind these cards to Tier 12. (Which involves gold, and getting a few dozen assorted cards to 5 Star, Level 21.)

-Get as many artifacts as possible to give abilities to the 5 cards in your deck that don't come with their own abilities.

-Insert the best possible gemstones into all of your cards.

As the game currently stands (and who knows if this lasts, the devs are erratic to say the least), any gold, gems, or items you spend that isn't in direct service of one of these goals (e.g., doing well in a 21 day event to build a deck for farming gemstones in the Dungeon) is ultimately wasted.

Which is my long-winded way of saying, don't worry about "winning" this event. Use your free energy to participate and get what you can out of it. For a newer player, the real prize is the extra dust and duplicate cards for your Fairy/Nature/Passion deck, or for the cards you need to level up to Soulbind them. A bit of a secondary prize is to use the 200% bonus for even cards to push the story levels and farm gold faster--however, the payoff is much higher if you do so during the 21 day events.