Should I try to cover Bl4de?

Blade is fairly awesome, you can't go wrong with him. Is it worth blowing your stash? Given that your Blade is currently 3/4/3, you need 3 covers. Assuming you get lucky and don't end up with a wasted 6th cover, on average you'll need about 40 pulls to get them (3*12 4* plus 1/10 5*). And, of course, you might not get lucky. 

Blade is going to rotate out soon, so additional covers are going to be hard to come by,

So, it's up to you. You certainly have the resources to pull it off. In those pulls, you'll probably get your 13th Carol at the same time; while Blade is not the ideal partner for Carol, he'll do until something better comes along.

Are you thinking about jumping directly to 5* land? If not, I don't see why you're hoarding like this. There are several pretty good 4* in the pool now, and several of them play very well with Carol (Groot, Coulson, Medusa, Gamora), and several of them are good on their own (C&D, and the Riri and Mordo reworks look very nice)... Yes, there some mid-tier guys in there (Venom, maybe mordo), but with the reworks nobody looks actively bad. 

My 2 cents; the point here is that the question you ask is tied to the hoard you've accumulated. If you aren't going to use it to jump to 5* land, then I suggest you use it now and land fully in 4* land.

If you want to champion blade, you could also just spend the 360 CP. Sure, it's only 3 covers instead of 18, but it would be the 3 you want rather than 18 that you might not want and might not be able to use. 

Of course, you can do that even after he's rotated out of tokens, so maybe that's best left as a plan B.

So really what you have to ask yourself is: do you want some Blade covers now, or some (roughly the same number) Vulture covers in a few days; that pretty much boils down to the difference. Blade is great and you'll get (improved) use out of him right away, and Vulture seems great but you probably won't be able to use him fully for a while.

My 2 cents,

If you want to move up to 4* land, I think you can start doing it now or maybe wait for a day until 4blade is out and Vulture is in. Then flag 4Blade as your only Bonus Hero. Then start pulling classic tokens (20 CP) with your CP (still save LT for now). You already have all of the current latest 4* rostered, including 4blade and vulture, so all of your pulls will be usable. Keep pulling and champ whoever hit 13 covers or 14 covers until you're out of ISO. Then stop pulling and back to save up ISO until you can champ someone again. Rinse and repeat until you've champed all the 12 latest. What I can't comment on is what to do with the bonus hero flag after you've champed Blade (you likely get to champ him when open your hoard).

As for LT, I think this is a bit up to you. You can save them for now since two of the 5* in the LT are not that good or you can open them if that 2.5k CP is not enough to help you fully cover a decent chunk of 4* before you're out of ISO (unlikely, imo).

You should definitely wait to hear from other vets as well before decide what you want to do.

bk201 said:

With this other choice in mind, maybe the question changes to: Do I want to jump on 4* land or should I stay more time on 3*? More confused now

If your highest 3* is 209, and you have all 20 currently in tokens rostered and championed (or nearly so) then there's no reason not to aim for some 4*s. 

I don't keep track of how many BH I got so I can't really comment on that.

I think the real question is whether you mind having your 4Blade stuck at lv27x-ish. With BH, you will definitely fully cover him and it will be sooner than later. Even if you don't get those 3 covers within this round of pulls, you still have the next round and so on. 3Blade will drop another cover of his at lv223 too. So I don't think you have to worry about that.

The thing is, if you decide to move up to 4* land now, do you want to crack your hoard before or after 4Blade leaves the pack.

Option 1 (Before 4Blade is out) may give you, say, 20 champed levels top (assume you draw him twice as much. 125 pulls, 12 characters = 10 each on average.) and after that, you probably won't see him again for quite a while. So he will stuck at around lv290-ish at best.

Option 2 (After 4Bladue is out) your 4Blade will stuck at lv27x-ish.

I personally would go with option 2.

Hope this helps.

@bk201

Well, the tokens are changed without any announcement ahead of time again. The transition strategy above is probably not as efficient as before. (You now will have 50% to pull 4* that you don't have rostered.). And I don't know what is a better way now.

Agreed with @aa25. The only reason to spend the extra 5CP per pull is if you're making the push to 5* land, and when you do that, you need to be able to do it at once, which is why you need about 300 pulls between LTs and CP.

medusa blade carol are a great starting trio.  and clagger fits in excellently as well to feed carol.  congrats.  and 2 BB black covers are a great start on him, although finishing him from there is a fool's errand.  but if you get another couple of black, he'll actually be worth using some.