Today I earned in total around 635 DEC through my rank battles. On a normal day I play about 20 rank battles to lower my ECR bar from 100% down to low 80%. This is all done in the gold I league. Assuming this is what I earn on a daily basis and ball park take 10% of that total I get about 63 DEC that is potentially earned with the use of a gold foil Furious Chicken. This is also assuming the Furious Chicken is used in every battle that was won. So in summary having Furious Chicken in my lineup I earn an additional 63 DEC daily.
The cheapest gold foil Furious Chicken to rent presently is slightly over 20 DEC. The difference from my estimate of how much DEC I earn daily with Furious Chicken the difference is 63 - 20 = 43 DEC. This means renting out a Furious Chicken for those who do not have the card works. Higher leagues in diamond and champion it is certain they earn even more DEC.
Present lowest price for the card is $391 which is equivalent to 34,400 DEC. The burn rate of the card is 3,000 DEC. A quick division 34,400 / 63 = 546 Days. That means almost 1 and 1/2 years to breakeven on owning a Gold Foil Furious Chicken. Although this is just a ballpark estimate based on playing gold I league. If we assume DEC burn rate of the card is added to the breakeven total then 31,400 / 63 = 498 Days. This basically cuts 2 months to break even.
To accelerate the break even price assume I can go to higher leagues which will earn more DEC per a win. Or wait to see if the card price can drop so buy in is lower.
The reason I wanted to look at the ROI for the gold foil Furious Chicken is because the main purpose of owning it is to make additional DEC earnings when used. There are benefits of using the card beyond earning more DEC, but the focus for me is how long it takes to earn back the price of buying the card.
Surprising it will take a while in order to reach break even if I purchase the card out right. However renting the card daily I have the potential to immediately earn profits. This is making me rethink about how I purchase cards when there maybe potential for better rate of returns if I went with renting. The drawback with renting is the cards can be removed from my account if lender breaks contract, and cards potential price appreciation.
Until next time thanks for reading!!!
If you are interested to learn more about Splinterlands please go through some of my other posts. Order is from newest to oldest posts:
Splinterlands - Securing Your Cards From Hackers
All You Want To Know About Reward Chests
Helpful Links for New and Veteran Players
I have plenty of other cards for rent! Just go on peakmonsters and check out the market place and if you are curious what I offer here is a link:
