Opening Stacked Decks has always been a risky endeavor in PoE 3.25, with the potential for great rewards or disappointing outcomes.  In this guide, the practical aspect of opening 5,000 stacked decks will be evaluated in order to understand how profitable and how feasible this activity is. We will provide detailed information regarding the set up, costs, time spent as well as the risks associated to opening many stacked decks.

• Setup & Cost
• Time Investment
• Wrists?
• Loot: Cheap Cards
• Loot: Expensive Cards 
• Loot Summary
• Is A Favorable Investment Option?

↖ Setup & Cost

Let us first consider the setup and cost withstanding the step of opening 5,000 stacked decks. At present, the average cost of golden statues is about one Divine reverses per 80 stacked decks. While these cheaper options seem to be available, their availability may be quite low.

Taken all together the consideration comes to definitions 62.5 Divines for the pack with 5,000 piled decks. This preliminary investment makes it easier to assess the upside potential expected from opening the decks.

↖ Time Investment

Obvious curiosity is driven towards the possibility of opening the 5,000 stacked decks, and this leads to a next question which needs to be focused on: Just how much time is required? Attaining 5,000 decks is expected to take about 30 minutes to 1 hour, depending on the method used to acquire them.

As for the actual process of opening the decks, it took about 2 hours and 10 minutes. While this may appear unnerving, the effort made is a determinant in evaluating the viability of this venture.

↖ Wrists?

The fact that there is a limit to how many stacked decks an individual can open in one sitting applies here as well. Around 600 decks later, the feeling of tiredness began in the wrist and switching awkwardly between hands was necessary in an effort to ease the pain. While this behavioral pattern decreased the degree of discomfort to some extent, it highlights probable discomfort on wrists while performing such undue exertion of effort.

One last additional query must be included in this analysis: how may this kind of worst case scenario affect the wrist? Repetitive motion, as is often said, however, could cause some discomfort to the wrists especially when done for a long while. So in such situations, it is assisted to rest from those difficult tasks, or even, use ergonomics wisely and efficiently to reduce undue stress on the wrists.

↖ Loot: Cheap Cards

As far as the lower strata divination cards are concerned, which can be procured from Stacked Decks, the loot is primarily comprised of novice novice basic divination cards like Everchanging, Chaotic Disposition, The Risk and Cartographer. One can say, these cards or cards that are categorized under the basic loot are of little value in respect to their worth on an individual basis. These are the very simple cards that were looted basic ones.

That aside, some more minor cards also exist which can be sold approximately 2KES a piece giving a possible total of 6- 8 divines worth. It's also worth mentioning that there will be a task associated with selling these smaller cards, thus leading to a conservative value of 6 divines for the overall valuation of cheap cards.

↖ Loot: Expensive Cards 

The loot from Stacked Decks also includes a range of expensive cards that affect the net worth by of a long shot. These cards include The Patience, Additional Neuroses, The Doctor, En Lightning, Gemcutter's Promise, Turn of the Wheel, Blessing of Moosh, Laon's Cres, Decorated Virtue, Divine Beauty, Sepher, Brother's Gift, The Immortal, Vial Smasher the Fierce, Divine Justice. Here is a list of the expensive cards looted: 

Wealthy Exile estimates the total value of the looted expensive cards to be about 74 divines. With this information, a slightly lower value will be estimated of about 70 divines due to difficulties that might be experienced in the selling of some basic divination cards.

↖ Loot Summary

First things first, let us get the math right. To put it in figures, Wealthy Exile has ascertained that the total expectable profit that followed the opening of 5,000 stacked decks was nearly 70 divines.

However, we lose sight of the expenses when one would compute that opening 5,000 decks would have cost them a total of 62.5 divines. It's worth mentioning that disposing of the single cards, most especially the cheap ones, is perhaps the most taxing and time-consuming undertaking one could do. Even if we take the profit of 7.5 divines, the time wasted in the selling of these cards is converted to a very low return of only 2.5 divines per hour.

In terms of risk, since we do not know whether all of the cards will be sold, the practical profit made every hour may turn out to even go down to two or less divines. Given all these circumstances, it is laborious to suggest stacked decks as an effective farming strategy.

↖ Is A Favorable Investment Option?

What is great, and what is bait, from that perspective of stacking, It is clear stacked decks grade closer to the latter. On this scale there is a dimension that is 3, this means that this profit oriented strategy can be rescued if all the applicable cards are sold off.

But the bitter truth it is like searching for the jackpot. Missing the jackpot could simply make one break even at most and waste a lot of time. Alas, as it is common with most people, stacked decks do not come up as some viable type of investment.

As to our experience regarding the opening of 5,000 stacked decks, it has been observed that there has been some reasonable profit above the log expected loss regarding this. However, with the time and effort needed to dispose those cards, the risk of low end cards going unsold, this type of farming does not seem to be all that viable.

So, to come back to the motive that bought stacked decks may still be some aspect that people will still enjoy about the great strokes of the side decks, it is the bottom line that one’s substantial profits in this game is not yet guaranteed. As with any investment in any market in Path of Exile, a person is advised to be prepared and expect nothing before understanding the full picture of the stacked decks.