I had been keeping my collection of commons for help in breeding some uc and r as I rank up legendaries, and for race. Today I realized that the new mythics can function as commons for the purpose of breeding as they only have the single element trait like a common, without the added legendary in the mix that can throw things off. Is there any benefit of keeping the common at that point? Those 9 spaces would be nice to reclaim.

@tracey-mill-toms said in Keeping commons?:

I had been keeping my collection of commons for help in breeding some uc and r as I rank up legendaries, and for race. Today I realized that the new mythics can function as commons for the purpose of breeding as they only have the single element trait like a common, without the added legendary in the mix that can throw things off. Is there any benefit of keeping the common at that point? Those 9 spaces would be nice to reclaim.

Good question since I could use those spaces as well myself . . . For a player who's starting to play they're useful indeed due to their easier and cheaper way of obtention but for a mid-high level player, most see them as useless, although they're still being used by most when it comes to breedings, especially in Team Races / Marathons. Besides that, another reason for some to keep them could be for collection, but as their cost is low for a player who has a decent level and gold production, purchasing them from the Shop when needed won't be that hard, in my opinion. I'll probably keep the Tyrannoking, Light Spirit and Metalsaur since they take a lot of time for breeding / hatching just in case. Of course, if you've reached to the point of lacking spaces, that could help a bit, but for those who haven't reached to that point yet and still have plenty of space, I'd keep them around

Thanks for your thougths. Space is an issue. I'm now working on tasks in other games to boost my gem levels since I'm (mostly) FTP. Just about filled everything else that I have (I had about 4 slots left before starting to ditch the commons. I've just been adding too many monsters to keep up with my shirking space. I feel like I'm enough of a collector that I don't like ditching them until I've maxed them out for the library to show that. But once that's done, keeping them in holding isn't doing be any good if I don't need them for breeding.

I hadn't even considered it, but I like the idea!
We need to verify that mythics aren't treated like legendaries for breeding purposes though. Breeding 2 legendaries has a chance of getting any common. You don't want to be trying for Pandakens during a race and end up with a Genie.