Ah, here's the tricky thing though, changes to the chest economy are coming. I'd expect to see the change coincide with a patch (even if it could technically be pushed live at any moment).
Eventually, the "bonus chests" will be a cash-only perk.
I appreciate the heads up tremendously! With that new bit of crafty intel in hand, I went ahead and purchased the chests. Don't know what I'll get, but it's all brilliant. I bought the full game on the first day and haven't used any gold so I still have a bit of it left, between 11-12k. So will there be no use for gold at all after that?
See here, I don't really care so much about eeking out every cent worth of value from the free to play stuff, tho I don't want to let it go to complete waste if there's some good use for the stuff. Just started poking around this board recently to look at when the new deck would come out. Now I'm finding out stuff and any news you lot share with me helps keep me in the know.