# 1. You Shall Invest in Power
“It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it, they just buy it with a credit card."
—Dumbledore talking nonsense
Harry Potter Magic Awakened can be complicated. There is a lot to learn as you play. Many resources, ways to spend resources, and activities in the game.
One trick to make things easier when you don’t understand something is to ask: how will that increase my power? This is most useful when in doubt about resources.
There are three interconnected systems of power in the game: Magic Book, Card Upgrade, and Echo.
The better you understand those systems, the easier it gets.
# Magic Book System
“Ron speared a roast potato on the end of his fork, glaring at it. Then he said, ‘I hate being poor.’”
—Ronald Weasley: kindred spirit, beloved king
Health, Attack, Luck, Exploration Attributes — this is power in Harry Potter: Magic Awakened. Upgrading cards makes them more powerful and grants experience, and experience increases your Magic Book Level, making you more powerful.
- Health: Your maximum amount of Health Points (HP). This is affected by your Magic Book and Echo Bonus.
- Attack: Indicates your basic attack power. This is affected by your Magic Book and Echo Bonus.
- Luck: Increases your odds of finding Legendary Cards. This is affected by unique items in the game.
- Exploration Attributes: Increases your stats in PVE, helping you gather resources. This is affected by your Magic Book Bonus and certain items in the game.
To upgrade your cards you need resources. Whales and veterans are powerful because they had access to more resources than you. They invested more on card upgrades, so they have a greater Total Amount of Experience.
It’s not only the two things used to upgrade cards that matter (Gold and Card Duplicates). Almost every resource can help increase your Magic Book Level, directly or indirectly.
Resources can be used for a variety of things, in a variety of ways. A whale may end up with a low Magic Book Level because of how they spent their resources. The key to survive as a F2P Player is resource management. Always. Resources lead to power.
# Card Upgrade System
“Insanity is buying cosmetics over and over and expecting to have enough resources to upgrade that one legendary card in your deck.”
—Enlightened Magic Awakened Player
Regardless of how you use resources, upgrades boil down to Gold and Card Duplicates. You need a lot of Gold Coins. You need a lot of Card Duplicates.
Magic Awakened is not a typical Collectable Card Game (CCG). A game like Yu-Gi-Oh has thousands of cards, this one has less than 100. Even F2P Players can collect all cards in a few weeks. Finding Card Duplicates is the real challenge.
Every time you find new cards there is (usually) less than 1% chance of finding the exact card you want. The more common a card is, the more Card Duplicates of that exact card you will need.
And even so: It is (arguably) more difficult to find 32 Legendary Card Duplicates than 1177 Common Card Duplicates.
Magic Awakened players will lust over Legendary Card Duplicates about as often as Bellatrix lusts over Voldemort.
# Echo System
An Echo is the heart of a deck. Each Echo has a special ability based on a character from the Harry Potter universe, and grants a bonus to HP, attack, and specific cards in a deck.
What makes a card good or bad is how much it suits the Echo used in a deck.
Question: How many resources would you need to acquire Good Max Level Legendary Echos? Answer: Yes.
The game will happily encourage you to throw everything and the kitchen sink at this black hole. Echo Crystals? Obviously. Gold? Sure. Gems? Definitely possible. Other Echos? Go nuts.
Besides your Magic Book and Card Level, nothing grants as much power as your Echo. Finding a Legendary Echo is not that hard. Finding a Good Legendary Echo is hard.
Upgrading a Legendary Echo to its maximum level will demand a ton of resources. Finding out that most cards your Echo buffs are useless to you — after you invested the necessary resources — is priceless.
This is what you need to do:
- Find a Legendary Echo that buffs the cards you want buffed;
- Upgrade it to reveal other cards it buffs (optional: rage about it);
- Invest more resources to change/improve buffs.
Dragons, mermaids, and kind Slytherins are real, but perfect Echos are a myth.
You should invest in Good Max Level Legendary Echos, but upgrading many versions of the same Echo chasing a Perfect Echo is not wise.
It’s better to have a variety of good Echos instead of a single perfect Echo.
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