Buyer Fairness: 8/10

Game Fairness: 10/10

Forcing a player to threaten their safety by sneaking onto the other camp to gain the steal a vote advantage for a fire token is a fair use of EOE advantages. The player isn’t merely gifted an overpowered advantage like an immunity idol for one fire token straight up, but they are given a slight advantage for a small risk. Sarah Lacina will be pissed to find out that Jeremy and Sandra had to do nothing to gain their advantages besides spending a fire token, but in terms of fairness to the overall game of Survivor itself, this made the most sense. Natalie also smartly picked Sarah as the person who would take the risk for the steal a vote advantage as she used that advantage to perfection on Survivor Game Changers.

Advantage #4 Idol Nullifier for a Fire Token

Buyer Fairness: 10/10

Game Fairness: 9/10

I don’t mind selling an Idol Nullifier for 1 Fire Token because an Idol Nullifier is a very specific advantage that does not have a 100% hit rate. It is the type of advantage they should be selling for a fire token, similar to the steal a vote.

Advantage #5 The 50–50 coin for 4 Fire Tokens

Buyer Fairness: 5/10

Game Fairness: 9/10

Considering Jeremy got a similar version of an advantage for one fire token, Michelle must feel a bit ripped off to have to give up all 4 of her fire tokens for this reward. However, considering the game was down to only ten people (meaning only 6–8 more Tribals left), having the potential for 50/50 immunity at any point is huge.

Fire Token Purchases: 1 Fire Token for an EOE Return Challenge Advantage

Buyer Fairness: 10/10

Game Fairness: 8/10

The reason I mark it as game fairness of 8 out of 10 is that Parvati and Yul got penalized for appearing too late on the EOE itself. Not to mention, there was no extra added advantage for potentially paying 3–5 fire tokens (something, someone like Natalie could have done). For the buyers, we saw that Yul was ever so close to winning the EOE return challenge despite not having an advantage, so players like Tyson and Rob should be thankful for their advantage purchase.

Fire Token Purchases: 1 Fire Token for a Mason Jar of Peanut Butter

Buyer Fairness: 10/10

Game Fairness: 10/10

Peanut butter is delicious no matter the occasion. It is an excellent source of fuel, and considering the food situation on the EOE, it is a worthwhile purchase. You can’t convince me that Tyson wouldn’t have won the EOE challenge had his belly not be full of yummy peanut buttery goodness.

Conclusion: Fire Tokens for Advantages is overpowered and is a bit too much interference by production, but it’s a reasonable market/system in comparison to other Survivor twists.