First, the boring part is the same as what the f2p players do. Clear all the daily mission, event mission, story mode, practice AI, and battle tutorials. As a p2w you should go into PvP only after you swipe your credit card. You will get around 70 packs in like 3 days (including opening launch event), which is 7 guaranteed legendary. The free underpowered pathetic deck that you get after completing beginner mission and only includes 1 legendary is like whatever to you. You can decide which to choose after you swipe your credit card to find out what you lack. I recommend Dragoncraft because it is most effective when you are p2w.

Oh, and for the friend invite campaign, you can enter my code (LFhqzDS) or any code you find anywhere in the internet just to get 4 packs, again that means nothing to you as a p2w. You don't have to be like those peasant who will spam their invite code all over all social media, steam community and everywhere they can spam because you don't need that 10,000 rupies anyway. You don't have friends anyway but you have your credit card, so you don't have to worry about that. Afterall, why spend time trying to promote your invite code when you can just pay!

Since I live in Tokyo, Japan, all the currency in this guide will be in JPY.

First, you need to prepare JPY 17,200 as a minimum.

Wait...how do you get JPY 17,200 in the first place? Well it is not that difficult if this game is your only hobby. Otherwise you will have to cut corner from other hobby. For example, you could get like 3-4 decent full game on Nintendo Switch for this amount, while JPY 17,200 might not even get you what you need in this game. But stop doubting yourself, because you are the martyr of this game. No matter how many negative review is in the store page, you just have to pretend you didn't see all of that and believe that you made the right choice!

What? The only hobby you have is this game, but you still don't have JPY 17,200 to spare? Well, a meal in Tokyo cost like JPY 500~1000 depending on how you eat. But do you really need to eat so nutritious? What if you can just grab plain white rice onigiri from the convenient store, just so that you don't die from starving? What if you don't need your coffee or green tea, because the tap water in Japan is so clean you could survive just by getting water source from tap? Ta-da there you go, JPY 800 savings (x 2 meal, you don't need breakfast) for like two weeks will give you enough money to spend on this game. No, this game is not expensive at all even compare to Nintendo Switch game or your daily expense, you just need to make things work at the end of the day!

Once you have your JPY 17,200 ready, you need to buy the following:
1. Crystals + Visage Bundle Contents (JPY10,000 for 5,500 crystal (here onwards simply refer to as "C"))
2. Starter Bundle (JPY2,000 for 1,100 C)
3. Deckboost Bundle (JPY 5,000 for 2,200 C)
4. Welcome Bundle (JPY 200 for no C)

After purchasing the above, you will get a weird Visage, 8,800 C, 14 card packs with guaranteed 5 random legendaries, and 3,500 vials (=1 legendary of your choice) .

Now the tricky thing is while No.1-3 is also available on Steam, you have to buy No.1~3 from the webstore because they offer slightly higher C for the same price. (No.4 is only available on Steam) But if you are smart enough, you will notice that after you purchase from No.1-3 from the webstore, which are supposed to be a one-time offer, you could buy them again as Steam DLC and no one is stopping you from doing that!

As you think you are so smart and cash in another JPY 17,000 into the game, you will find out that the game will not give you anything and you just wasted another JPY 17,000, so you have to waste your time and try to get refund from Steam. But this is not a scam, because Cygames had written so clearly on the webstore and in the in-game store that this is a one-time offer across all platform, so you have only yourself to blame for not reading the fine print! Gotcha, haha!

The most obvious high value stuff you can buy in game, other than all the useless stuff in the Cosmetic Supply part of shop, is the Battle Pass that cost 750 C and 10 x 1000 C limited time (as when I am writing this guide) card pack deal.

Even if you had already purchased all the high value bundle for JPY 17,200 (lets just exclude the 200 yen that give no C for simplicity sake), you are still only at 8,800 C and you lack 1,950 C to buy the Battle Pass + Card pack deal. Purchasing an extra 1,500 gems for JPY 3,000 is still just not enough, so you have to purchase the next higher pack- 2,600 gems for JPY 5,000. If you do purchase this pack and spend 10,750, you are left with 650 C that you can't spend anywhere else that have good value, because buying 13 daily packs with the left over C feels so awful when you know that there will sure be some sort of value deal they will offer in the future. That's right, you must cash in more C to buy future value pack if you don't want your 650 C to go wasted! This is not predatory at all because it is your total freewill if you want to just buy 13 daily packs and call it a day!

Now that you had a fair amount of random legendary, you should be able to build your ideal deck, but there is also a chance that your legendary are split so equally among all class that you can't even build a deck with all these money spent. But if you stop now, all the money you spent are wasted forever, so you have no choice but to continue to play and spend! You have to give positive review in the Steam store so that you don't have to admit you made a wrong decision!

The good news is while the peasants can't liquify their cards until they have 3 copies of them, this doesn't apply to you because as a p2w you will have more number of packs opened than them, and more cards to liquify. 7 of the cards in a pack have the probability of: 1.56% Legend, 6% gold, 25% Silver, 67.44% Bronze (treating 0.06% exchange ticket as Legendary for simplicity sake), and another 1 of the card in a pack is a guaranteed Silver or above with the probability of 1.56% Legend, 6% gold and 92.44% silver. And given that all cards have a 8% chance to be Premium, the expected vials value for 1 pack of 8 cards is around 383 vials (7x 46.96544 + 1 x 54.24896) . Assuming you are a p2w and is able to liquify almost anything that you don't need to get what you need, you just need to open 9 packs on average to get a legendary of your choice. That's like only 900 C or a little bit just below JPY 2,000, even considering that you need multiple legendary for a single deck, this is not expensive at all! *In reality you get a guaranteed legendary every 10 packs and random stuff from park treasure key that the above calculation had not taken account into, so it is not even that expensive!

Ramp Dragon, Premium Orb on Cocytus so that your whole Apocalypse Deck will also be Premium. There is no skill needed as you randomly smash your powerful card with EP and SEP into their followers, or play your no-brainer Storm follower with SEP into their face! Make sure you emote before you play your Premium 1 mana 13/13! And remember, (5+3)+(9+3)=20 quick math!

And don't forget, the above is only for the first card set. The next card set will be just around the corner, so be prepare to spend more money each time a new set launch! Have fun losing in real life and spend more money in a virtual game, which they can just decide to press the reset button at anytime to introduce Shadowverse 3, and let you start your collection from zero again!!!