Last season I made my most expensive single card purchase by taking this Alpha Lightning Dragon off 
I already owned a Lvl 3 (4 BCX) and a single card but at the time the better deal was to go for the max, with a view to offloading the Lvl 1 and 3 cards at some point.
Below is the current market for the Alpha Lightning Dragon, and the current best price for a maxed card at almost $1500 more than what I paid for mine.
$2000 is the most I've spent on anything, minus the car, in a long time and I did spend a few days eyeing up the card and asking myself if it was a good idea or not. The decision was made easier though due to value of the various rewards Splinterlands provides, and hopefully the report below (provided by https://kiokizz.github.io/Splinterlands/seasonReportCard) supports this.
(btw I've noticed that you can now set the beneficiary % at the link above from 1% to 100%, I left it at the default 10%)
| Stat | # |
|---|---|
| Champion Rank | 105 |
| Rating | 4136 - Champion III |
| Rating High | 4165 |
| Ratio (Win/Loss) | 0.96 (168/175) |
| Longest Streak | 6 |
Happy with Champion III, although I wasn't too far away from the next rating and 40 more chests. I burned my mana trying to get there but it was just a step to far this time. Win streaks were few and far between, and these are essential late on in the season to push for a rank.
| Rarity | Quantiy | 🔥DEC🔥 |
|---|---|---|
| Common | 95 | 475 |
| Rare | 23 | 460 |
| Epic | 6 | 600 |
| Legendary | 1 | 500 |
| Total Standard | 125 | 2035 |
| Rarity | Quantiy | 🔥DEC🔥 |
|---|---|---|
| Common | 0 | 0 |
| Rare | 0 | 0 |
| Epic | 0 | 0 |
| Legendary | 0 | 0 |
| Total Gold | 0 | 0 |
| Reward Chests | Dailies | Season | Total | 💲DEC💲 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Legendary Potions | 19 | 8 | 27 | 1080 |
| Alchemy Potions | 20 | 8 | 28 | 1400 |
| DEC | 686 | 203 | - | 889 |
| CREDITS | 0 | 0 | - | 0 |
| UNTAMED Packs | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Cards (Total) | 83 | 42 | 125 | 2035 |
| Ranked Play Wins | DEC Earned |
|---|---|
| 168 | 21109 |
| Total Ranked Play Earnings |
|---|
| 26513 DEC |
| 0 CREDITS |
Shouldn't really complain about getting 'free' cards each day, but the Gold Foil Cards table is looking a bit sparse!
Fortunately, my luck has changed with the beginning of the new season and I picked up a gold Epic card yesterday.
I don't play Life (or Death) and so this card has gone out for rent already and will probably bring in $2/3 a season, depending on how I manage my rentals.
| Type | DEC (fees) |
|---|---|
| Revenue | 171494.043 (8577.211) |
| Expenses | (0.000) |
| Cancellation Refunds | 0.000 |
| NET | 162916.832 |
I feel pretty lucky in that I can rent a bunch of cards and still keep higher level cards to play each day, and in brawls for my guild. I only rent a couple of max cards with the rest being duplicates or splinters I don't play. I've found during the rental boom that these lesser cards are readily snapped up, presumably by newer players looking to gain an edge in the lower leagues.
It's nice to have a max level card, a couple of rentals, and a couple of spares.
162916 DEC is approximately $1600 at todays prices, quite insane!
Business must be booming at peakmonsters.com too - they made almost $90 last season on my rentals alone.
| Type | Amount Claimed |
|---|---|
| Airdrop | 9614.748 |
| Staking Rewards | 658.867 |
| NET | 10273.615 |
SPS is currently priced at just under 43 cents following its ride up to a dollar in October. I'm trying not too sell too much at present and have instead opted to pool SPS with DEC at https://tribaldex.com/ or stake it on the Splinterlands site.
This provides a staking rewards boost and has helped with voucher allocation - a necessity if you are looking to get involved in the next card release - Chaos Legion. I've got 350 packs waiting to be opened so far, and think I'll stick at that tally until the general release (phase 2) is underway.
10273 SPS is $4,410 right now - I do like airdrops :D
Whilst the Alpha Lightning Dragon cost more than a couple of hot dinners, last seasons rewards alone easily covered the purchase.
It's been a wild ride these past few months, could we see a 1 billion dollar marketcap in the near future?
Recently, I've been told not to diversify away from Splinterlands by someone with way more (game) assets than me. I think HIVE could outperform these assets in the short term, and so I'm pretty chuffed to have some of each going into the festive season.
Cheers
Asher
Posted using SplinterStats Season Report Card.
This once a season tool for Splinterlands players provides a template to reflect on and share their performance, card usage statistics and rewards summary for the season. More features will be released in the future.
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