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Originally Posted by allenciox

I would argue that standard packs are worth considerably more in PT21 than in PT20. The reason? The Live missions. Since 70% of cards drawn are live, in PT20 most of these were just quicksell value. Now almost all bronze and silver live cards have a very significant premium associated with them above the quick-sell value. In fact, it has gotten to the point that a live bronze or silver card is worth more on average than the average non-live card.

If you are willing to put in the time to put all these cards up for auction, and put no premium on the considerable time required to do so, then a standard pack might be worth > 1000 PP on average.

Live silvers in particular have a very high premium in most cases... likely due in large part to the lack of a "Silver Pack". For many teams, if you want to complete the missions, your only alternative to buying those silvers at inflated prices is to pick up the golds instead... which of course have a minimum price associated. So in many cases, 900PP is seen as a "bargain" of sorts.

Edit: Still, except in very rare cases they go for less than the cost of the golds you could get instead... which happens to be at a minimum equal to the value of buying a pack. So while those cards are a nice bump to the average value, you certainly don't expect to see them in every pack and you still need to pull one of the extremely valuable cards to really get value out of it. (Like when I got a perfect Sandy Koufax last week and funded all my remaining live missions with the sale.)