Arcane Conclave: how did my Presale go?

Hello to all Splinterlands and Hive friends!!!

We can finally open the packs bought in the Presale, and start seeing the prices on the market, and start playing with the new cards in the Modern format, to see the potential of these new cards, but also to realize how the hell these Bloodlines work.

I entered the Presale with a specific purpose, as I wrote in various posts, I wanted to take home the Promo cards, Arcane Skinwalker, which is a decent magic card, but nothing special, but above all Gramel the Hunger.

Well, in the end I found 9 normal Arcanes, one Gold Foil, which is now listed at $15.

As I had predicted, Gramel The Hunger immediately jumped to the top of the market rankings, being the first monster with 3 attacks available, it immediately stands as a very strong card in attack, even if it is a bit lacking on the defensive side.

In first position on the market, this somewhat mysterious card, Archmage Yabanius, immediately jumped, perhaps for the new Empower ability, but let's see if it is an exaggerated price that will deflate in the next few days.

Now, while you are on the site, these Pop-ups appear that inform you of players who have found a Black Foil, Gold Arcane and Black Arcane card.

I don't know if I really like this idea, I haven't understood if it is a way of advertising and encouraging players to buy other packs, but I also find it a bit sadistic, because I have not found any Black Foil or Arcane cards, and knowing that others have been lucky enough to find them is not what comforts me much!!!

Meanwhile, the prices of Black Foil and Black Arcane are literally skyrocketing, with some you can buy a house, in fact we are talking about thousands of dollars, with Kavor Skarn reaching the figure of 200K, and the cheapest Black Foil is around 200 dollars.

The best card I have found so far is a gold Zargrul, valued at 114 $, it has the new very powerful Bloodline Tribute ability, that is, when it dies it gives +1 in Health, Speed, Armor and Power to all companions of the same Bloodline: it seems to be a really performing ability!

However, we need to try the new cards on the field to understand how they work, which I will do in the next few days because now it's late and I'm too tired!