Greetings Splinterfolk!
My IGN is "kuhnchun" or "KnCn" for short. I have been playing competitive games for the past 10+ years. I started competing in games when I was 14. I initially competed in my local esports league with the Call of Duty franchise but eventually transitioned to DotA for 5+ years. I have also been a massive TCG enthusiast since I was a child. I would always play Yu-Gi-Oh with my friends during lunch breaks and collect Pokémon cards with them after school.
I see Splinterlands as the combination of my two passions. A blockchain based TCG with an esports league that is still in its infancy. I believe that Splinterlands and the whole NFT gaming scene is still ahead of its time. While cryptocurrency has been the most innovative achievement in the 21st century, I believe that NFT/blockchain gaming in general and Splinterlands is the second wave.
I began my Splinterlands journey at the beginning of October 2021. Initially, I only created one account in order to try out the Play2Earn scene and have some fun on my commute to work. After a week or so of playing with only the starter cards and completing my daily quests each day, I managed to accumulate around 500 DEC (This was before the nerf to the bronze league). The price of DEC was around $0.011 back then which means I managed to gain around $5.50 in just a week's time. Not bad for an initial "investment" of only $10.
After seeing the "returns" of my one week experiment, I decided to analyse the Splinterlands ecosystem more thoroughly in order to optimise my time. I took into consideration many factors, such as:
I came to the conclusion that I needed more accounts in order to be more efficient and systematic. I ended up creating six more accounts, giving me a total of seven accounts.
There were many reasons why I chose to utilise multiple accounts over growing one account, but the main reason was for the EOS rewards. I figured I would rather have 75,000 collection power split amongst five accounts, so each account is at Silver III league, which would give me 60 chests in total compared to 75,000 collection power in only one account, at the Silver 1 league, which would only give me 18 chests.
After much trial and error, I feel as if I have developed somewhat of a successful and sound strategy. By no means is it perfect and I am sure that it can always do with more refinement and tinkering, but without further ado, here it is:
As with any sort of competitive card game, the meta is highly unpredictable which is why I prefer to rent out cards to battle with and not commit myself to buying cards/splinter decks that might lose most of their value once the meta shifts (For example, Venari Wavesmith which was worth around $8 at its peak and is now only worth $0.2 - Luckily, I was able to sell most of my copies for around $5 just before Chaos Legion was introduced and they shuffled the starter cards, thus resetting the meta). In addition, while I might be losing out in the long-term (as I have to constantly pay rental costs), I prefer the flexibility and peace of mind that I don't have to constantly be playing since I don't own any decks or meta cards. As a bonus, I enjoy the "passive income" side to renting out the cards I do own and the thrill of opening a lot more reward chests at EOS than I would normally be able to.
I own 103 different cards, with a total collection power of 31,500, and I rent them all for 100 DEC/per day on average.
I have 222.699 staked SPS. At the time of writing this post, the current trading price is $0.17697.
I have 4,000 DEC which I keep on my 5 battling accounts (800 on each). At the time of writing this post, the current trading price is $0.00414.
I have 4.119 vouchers. At the time of writing this post, the current trading price is $2.4112.
I bought 7 Summoner's Spellbooks at $10 each for my 7 different accounts.
The total value of my account is $401.52, which is $331.52 in "profit" or 473% ROI. Just as note, I think of my account in terms of value and I know that if I were to ever leave the game (which I don't plan to anytime soon) then I would most likely lose 10-20% of the total value to market prices and fees when converting to fiat.
In the second last EOS for 2020, I managed to hit the ultimate jackpot by not only getting the best legendary in the current reward cards, but getting it in a gold foil edition. I wonder what my best pull for 2022 will be... A gold foil Queen Mycelia, maybe?
If you made it this far, thank you for reading. This is my first blog post and will be my pet project for 2022.
