Is the Revenge Deck Worth Buying for Dragon Duke

That boost is the reason to act now rather than later. It ends when the event ends, on August 31. After that the Revenge Deck levels the normal way, with Ore, like every other piece.

It needs Town Hall 15 or above. Below that, this one isn't for you yet.

I read the equipment page before writing this, because the name tells you almost nothing.

Equip it and Dragon Duke starts hitting back. Any defense or enemy unit that damages him can trigger a counter. Each counter heals him a little and throws a card at whatever hurt him, dealing damage in return.

The piece also raises his hitpoints, which matters more than it sounds. A hero who survives longer gets more counters, and more counters mean more healing. The two effects feed each other.

So it's a survivability piece, not a burst damage piece. That's the useful way to think about it.

It works best where Dragon Duke is taking steady fire from several sources at once. It does very little when he's melting a single building nobody is defending. Read the base before you decide it earns the slot.

Upgrades cost Shiny, Glowy and Starry Ore, and each level needs a certain Blacksmith level. No gold. No elixir. If your Blacksmith is behind, that's the wall you'll hit first, not the Ore.

One detail about the boost that catches people. It lifts the piece to the maximum your Hero Hall allows, not the maximum the piece can ever reach. So a lower Hero Hall gets a lower ceiling. The boost is still free, it just isn't the same free for everybody.

Dragon Duke has six equipment pieces now. Fire Heart, Flame Blower, Stun Blaster, Electro Fangs, Rocket Backpack and the Revenge Deck.

Two of those are Epic rarity. Rocket Backpack was the first. The Revenge Deck is the second.

He starts with Fire Heart and Flame Blower the moment you unlock him. Stun Blaster arrives at Blacksmith level 9, and Electro Fangs at level 10. So the order you get them is fixed, and the Revenge Deck is the one you actively choose to buy.

I won't hand you a ranking, because no official ranking exists and the honest answer depends on your attack. What I can say is what each piece is for. Fire Heart is the safe everyday pick because it is common rarity and cheap to max. Rocket Backpack is the mobility piece. The Revenge Deck is the one that keeps him alive under sustained fire.

Try it during the boost window. That is free information about your own attacks, and it beats any ranking somebody else writes.

Our Dragon Duke equipment guide covers the full lineup with base stats if you want the numbers side by side.

The Blacksmith is worth a separate mention here. It gates equipment levels across your whole account, not just this piece. If you have been ignoring it because it doesn't shoot anything, that's the upgrade quietly holding back every hero you own.

This is the part most people get wrong, so read it carefully.

The Revenge Deck is not a card collection reward. You buy it. It sits in the Trader Shop during the Awesome Medal Event, priced at 3,090 Quest Medals, and you can buy it once.

Quest Medals are the event currency. So the real question isn't whether the Revenge Deck is good. It's whether 3,090 medals are better spent here than on the other things in that shop.

If you don't play Dragon Duke, they aren't. Spend them elsewhere and don't feel bad about it.

If you do play him, the boost tips it. You get a maxed piece for the last five days of the event without spending a single Ore on it, which is a genuinely good trial run.

Our quest medals spending guide covers what else that shop stocks and which items overlap with things you'd earn free anyway.

From August 26 to 31, the Revenge Deck jumps to the maximum level your Hero Hall allows. It costs you nothing. You don't have to claim it.

Here's the part worth being clear about. The boost is temporary. It is not permanent progress.

When the event ends on August 31, the piece drops back to whatever level you actually paid for. Any Ore you put into it before then still counts, and still counts afterwards. So the boost doesn't replace upgrading, and it doesn't waste upgrading you already did.

What it does mean is this. Do not panic buy Ore levels between now and August 26 just to see the piece perform. Wait five days and see it perform at max for free. Then decide whether it deserves your Ore.

That's the whole tactical point. The boost is a free demo, and the sensible move is to use it as one.

If your CWL war days land inside August 26 to 31, tell your clan. Anyone holding the Revenge Deck gets a maxed piece for those wars at no cost, and plenty of people will not notice on their own.

There's a small planning trick for the window too. Decide before the 26th which attack you want to test it in. A war hit, a serious multiplayer push, something where you'll actually notice whether Dragon Duke lived longer. Five days is enough to learn something, and it isn't enough to drift through by accident.

The Awesome Medal Event runs from August 12 at 08:00 UTC to August 31 at 08:00 UTC. That end time matters, because 08:00 UTC on the 31st is earlier in the day than most people assume.

The event also brings a temporary troop, the Elephant Rider, unlocked through the Event Track rather than bought.

So there are two separate jobs during the event. Progress the track for the troop and the track rewards. Spend medals in the Trader Shop for the equipment. They don't feed each other.

I pulled the dates and the price from Supercell's own event post rather than a secondhand summary, because the shop price and the boost dates are exactly the details that get repeated wrong.

One more habit worth keeping this month. Before spending on any epic equipment, check whether that piece is still reachable free through the hero journey track. Paying for something you'd have earned anyway is the most common waste in a busy event month.

Play Dragon Duke and have 3,090 Quest Medals spare? Buy it, and buy it before August 26 so the boost applies to a piece you already own.

Short on medals? Work the event track first. The medals come from playing the event, so the track is the bottleneck, not the shop.

Don't play Dragon Duke? Skip it. Spend the medals on something you'll actually use.

And whatever you decide, don't dump Ore into it this week. Let the free boost show you what the piece does at full strength first. Our hero equipment priority guide covers where Ore goes once you've decided.

One last thing on timing. The event's Trader tab stays open a little after the event itself, but the boost does not. Treat August 31 as the real deadline for anything you want to see at full strength.

Buy, test during the window, then decide about Ore in September with something better than a guess.