Make your gold earn gold
How you earn gold, how interest works, and what to spend on.
After this lesson you can work out your interest and know why saving pays early on.
Where gold comes from
Most rounds pay you 5 gold to spend, though the first few rounds pay a little less. On top of that you earn interest on the gold you're holding, plus bonus gold for a streak, which is several wins or several losses in a row. Winning a fight against another player also pays +1 gold.
Picture of the game · example numbers
Play with the picture. Drag the gold slider and watch the interest coins grow.
The shop. Bottom of the screen. 5 units to buy each round. Press a unit to buy it; drag a unit back onto the shop to sell it.
Your turn: buy, drag and sell
- Blossom, 2 units, not active
- Juggernaut, 1 unit, not active
- Spellweaver, 1 unit, not active
- Summoner, 1 unit, not active
- Player 294 health
- Player 388 health
- 81 health, you
- Player 472 health, you fight them next
- Player 566 health
- Player 651 health
- Player 738 health
- Player 817 health
Lvl 30/6 experience
Shop odds at level 3: 1-cost units 75%2-cost units 25%3-cost units 0%4-cost units 0%5-cost units 0%
Press a shop card to buy it. Drag a unit to move it or onto the shop to sell it, and drag an item onto a unit.
How the practice round differs
A practice round with units from a recommended board in the current set (Solar with Karma). It is not a real game and never reads one.
- Shop: which costs show up at each level follows the game's own odds, but every unit of a cost is equally likely (the shared pool of copies is not counted).
- No fights, rounds or income, and the clock stands still: gold only changes when you spend it or sell.
Question 1 of 3
In a real game
Interest is counted on the gold you hold when the round ends, so that is the number to watch.
In stages 2 and 3, try to build up to 50 gold, because from then on you earn the full +5 every round.
Health matters too: if you're losing a lot of health, spending some savings on a big upgrade is fine. Spend down to 0 only when you're about to be knocked out.
Streak gold starts at 3 in a row and grows to +3 a round at 6 or more. Even on a losing streak, play your strongest team, because that saves health.
Gold you still hold when you're knocked out is wasted, so near the end, spend it all.
Watch out for this
Spending every coin each round early on means you never earn interest, and you miss out on extra gold that adds up fast. Keep some gold back instead, so it earns interest every round.
The whole screen, item recipes, traits and units.