I played Gods Unchained for 5 months so you don't have to. Here is a detailed review on its play 2 earn from a f2p player's perspective

Apart from posting here, clicking on brave ads there is also an option to play a few play 2 earn games. Not many are out there that are kinda viable. Gods unchained is a decent one in that regard.

I started as a complete f2p player 1 year ago.. farmed some gods back then and stopped playing. In september play 2 earn was announced and I had ~$20 worth of gods in IMX wallet.

Now that p2e was announced I wanted to try cheap and fast deck just to test the viability of p2e.

How does p2e work:

• First 10 games you play are counted towards p2e.
• The higher rank you are and the more you win in those 10 games the more gods you earn.
• Card quality also matters but if you have full meteorite deck there's no point in going more than that

So the goal was

1. Play 10 games every day
2. Win as many games as possible
3. Make games as quick as possible

Solution - effective aggro deck

As much as I love control decks .. games can last 20 minutes or more.. with aggro deck you you are pretty much done in 5 minutes. Having played MTG for over a decade helped me in quickly assessing the cards/decks so it went smoothly.

I made a $20 aggro war deck and within 3 days I was in mythic (highest rank)

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Results

Here is the screenshot of last 10 days of rewards:

Rewards from last 10 days of playing.

On average a mythic/diamond player can earn 5-6 gods per day. GODS is ~$0.3 so it ends up being $1.5 - $2 per day. There is a myth that you can't get to mythic as a f2p... absolutely not true. The most expensive decks are control decks... aggro eats through them. (source: 5 months of grind)

On top of that you have weekend ranked which can earn you some additional cards that you can sell on marketplace. There are occasional events that can also drop you some cards.

After 5 months of f2p playing here is total worth of my collection (0.28 ETH), along with some of the most valuable cards (some of them were a lucky drop from events, some were traded for)

Most valuable cards after 5 months of every day grind (Total collection worth ~0.28 ETH)

I still play aggro war only (1h per day) and sell most of other cards.

NFT marketplace is preety smooth. It is on L2 so there is no gas fee, only a marketplace fee. So pretty much any GODs you earn you can spend there trading. If you are patient and like trading cards you can squeeze a little bit of money there as well.

Conclusion:

• Overall it's not much ($50 per month if you are a decent player).
• Unless you like the game I wouldn't recommend it. If you are into TCGs however by all means dig into it.. there are also lots of free tournaments with nice rewards. Also you can also join a clan and borrow the cards for a top tier deck.