Winning Gems

@1208Wither welcome to the forums! Glad you've joined us.

Here's the thing: Between the rewards for ranking up, league change rewards, daily challenges and ads, you can get quite a few gems per week if you're diligent. With the end of season rewards, you can end up with quite a few packs. EA has to walk a fine line. They have to give you a fun and rewarding game, but since it's free to play as much as you like, they also have to make those rewards trickle in at such a rate that you're at least tempted to spend money. If they did your suggestion, there would almost be no reason to pay.

Now I would like to see them so something along the lines of arena in hearthstone where you can pay an entry fee with the gems you have and play for increasing rewards depending on how far you make it. These rewards being gems, packs, legendary cards, and Sparks. This would allow people a way to get more of each if they're clever/lucky enough players; while also giving players another reason to buy occasional gem packs.

If you're just getting started, the extra pack in a 10+1 definitely could help you, but I can't stress enough how much I prefer single packs.
I don't want to talk you out of the 1000 bundle, but I will say this...
Keep track of how many superrare and legendary you may pull in the 10+1 pack, and some of the time, when you have 1000 gems also, try all single packs and compare.
There has been many times when I have tried the 10+1, and got 2 superrare and no legendary. I am fuming almost by that point, because I have never, never never never got 10 single packs and come out with only 2 superrare.

Not always, but more often than not, when I get 10 single packs, I get a legendary and a few superrare, never only two

Rather annoyingly, I got my 17th bananasaurus earlier this week, and get this, I also got my fourth whack a zombie!
Go figure on that one

Well then if you have been playing since the beginning, I still stand by what I said. And that means that you have definitely seen plenty of bundles, to make a decision on whether the one extra pack is really worth it.
I say this for every single person who reads this...next time you have 1000 for a 10+1 pack, instead get yourself 10 single packs and see if it wasn't worth it for the one less pack.
And if by some ridiculous bad luck you get bunch of bunk, first off remember the times you got the 11packs and only got two superrare, because I can't be the only sad sack that has happened to, and secondly, if you wish send me a pm rant about how you got hosed, or just post your results on here.
I have been considering doing that, but I don't like buying the 10+1 anymore, so I don't think I would do it to prove a point. I don't have that much coin that I can throw away just to show that single packs get better drops as a whole