Card Tiers

Raise the card you cast to Tier V and leave the rest alone until that one is done. Perfected says "Raise a card to Tier V" and had 6,750 awards on 15 November 2026. That is more common than a Galecrag clear and roughly as common as the Sunken Dunes. Tier V is a mid-game tool. Players who treat it as a raid trophy are late.

What a tier is

The badge does not print the stat per tier, the cost, or the material. It prints the cap name: Tier V. Five steps, then the badge. Spend every upgrade on the spell you play every fight. A second card at Tier II is worse than one card at Tier V, because the fight resolves around the card you actually press. The wide card is the exception. If your only multi-target spell is stuck at the first rank, give it the next upgrade after the main card gains one, then go back to the main card. One Tap, 2,324 awards, is the reason the wide card deserves a rank at all.

Sunder, Earthshatter, and Frost Shard are the named candidates if your trainer handed you those exact cards. If not, upgrade the card you have. The key art is not a shopping list.

Where this sits in the run

Do the first upgrade in the Forest if the option appears. Push hard in Frostfang Pass, where the clear rate collapses and a stronger card is the difference. Be at or near Tier V before Thaddeus Crowe if the fight is slow. Be done before Galecrag. The Abyssal Warden is not the place to start a tier climb.

Insane and Mythic do not replace tiers. They are harder clears of content. A Tier V card makes those modes less miserable. The modes do not grant the tier by themselves, as far as the badges say.

What not to buy

No pass says it grants a tier. Eye of Fortune changes chest choices. Quick Reroll skips a race spin. A kit grows with level and is not on sale. Codes pay Race Rerolls. The tier comes from playing the card.

Keep going with Decks, Spells, Combat, Frostfang Pass, Thaddeus Crowe, and Passes.

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