As I have now been playing "Splinterlands" for over a year, I've wanted to contribute something of ACTIONABLE value to my fellow players (and FUTURE players) - but NOT just fill my #Hive feed with daily images of quest reward - or battle - SPAM (no offense to those doing so). Ultimately, Hive is about ADDING VALUE to the social experience - that is the magic of blockchain social media technology. So, after some serious pondering, I decided that a weekly "Splinterlands" player strategy diary" type series, with CONCISE and ACTIONABLE tips, would be of most value to my audience. Please let me know your thoughts (good and/or bad), and I hope that readers (now and into the future) will benefit from this series. If you gain a better understanding of blockchain, gaming, "blockchain gaming", marketing, psychology, ethics, forensics, philosophy, investing, and/or any other area(s) of knowledge I end up exploring (voluntarily or involuntarily) as this series naturally progresses, then I will have done my "good deed" (of providing value) for the week - in addition to having a nice little boost of Hive income (from these posts) to use to buy more Splinterlands cards. Also, feel free to hit me up on the battlefield.
1 ) I have started to warm up to the new "anytime" tournament format. When the new format was introduced I tried one tournament, and one qualm I had was that I felt that the "feel" of the new format was less "real-time" than the original format, which I liked, because it felt more "tournamenty". Now, I understand that the benefit of the new "anytime" format solves the significant issue of including MORE players in the tournaments, and it serves that purpose well. I have been proposing to 
2 ) In the previous post I mentioned that I was focusing on getting more familiar with the other Splinterlands players, mainly by reading more of their posts. The problem is that I've been so busy multitasking that I haven't been as consistent as I have wanted to be, and so I implemented a simple organizational task this week, which is simply keeping the #splinterlands "trending" hashtag page open in Hive all day ( /trending/splinterlands ), and browsing the trending posts a few times each day ( let's say browsing one post every hour (when I have the time to do so). This helps me get a better sense of who is out there posting about
In addition, since I have been in the process powering down all of my Hive (in order to load up on some of the important cards I have wanted) I am now preparing the strategy I will follow on Hive AFTER the power-down is complete. When I first initiated the power-down I did so with the understanding that I would be using Hive (into the future) mainly as a Hive-earning tool (where I will convert the earned Hive (from my post payouts, and from curation of other people's posts) to DEC to buy more Splinterlands cards). So now I am trying to figure out as many ways possible to earn more Hive into the future, but in an ETHICAL manner. One of those ways is, of course, through the payout from each of my three weekly series posts (inluding this one, which has regularly received a nice, JUICY upvote each week (fingers crossed that that will continue). But this week I realized that, after all of the "Steem vs. Hive" CHAOS, I simply need to "get back to the basics" of this platform. That is, one of the often-neglected, yet valuable, ways to earn Hive is to curate good posts. And so, IN COMBINATION with my new focus on consuming more Splinterlands-related posts, I have also decided to increase my upvoting activity on the higher-quality posts. But since my time is limited so that I can't read AS MANY posts as I would like, what I have decided to do is automatically upvote the posts of a select group of regular posters who post about Splinterlands. I already have a list of a nice handful of these posters, and this week I will experiment by upvoting all of their posts to see how much Hive curation income I can generate from doing that effort. Let me be clear, I am in no way ABUSING my upvoting ability. I am simply SUPPORTING those Hive posters who I know are putting out good content related specifically to Splinterlands and/or 'blockchain gaming", and as a result this will ALSO help me increase my weekly earning of HIVE (we're not talking "big bucks" here, but enough of a weekly boost in Hive income to be buy a few much-needed cards). For instance, if I can ultimately earn $5.00 - $10.00 USD worth of Hive per week, with this newly tweaked strategy, then I would be content with that. In fact, I will set that as the goal for now. And since the posts in this series have been consistently earning at least $5.00 USD per post, then my goal will be to try to generate another $2.50 - $5.00 USD per week (in Hive) through my daily curation activity. I will monitor the Hive income as it rolls into my account each day for the remainder of the week to get a more accurate rough metric on how close to the $2.50 USD I can come.
3 ) In previous posts in this series I have discussed, in significant detail, my strategy of starting to divert PART of my monthly DEC earnings (from my daily Splinterlands activity), into OTHER cryptocurrencies. I have explained that I have been considering the possibility of buying up ~ $5.00 USD per month of BTC (to replace the BTC I have spent over the past year on Splinterlands pack batches, potions, etc.), and I have also considered buying up Dogecoin, simply because of the low price of that coin (which would enable me to buy up a significant quantity of that coin each month). Well, it turns out that Doge had a significant pump this past week, which (according to news stories in the industry) was catalyzed by a #TikTok campaign intended to "pump" the coin. Now, regardless of whether the fundamentals of Dogecoin are "non-existent" (that is, the coin is built on the foundation of "the meme") doesn't even matter. Right now, I hold somewhere in the ballpark of 50,000 DOGE, and at the current price of ~ $0.004/DOGE, if I were to use $5.00 USD worth of my monthly DEC earnings from Splinterlands to buy DOGE I could purchase ( $5.00 USD / $0.004/DOGE = ~ 1,250 DOGE ). Then, if Doge PUMPS again any time into the future, I could potentially make a significant profit ( considering the "multiplier" ( that is, in investment terms, the LEVERAGE (profit potential) of an asset based on the low cost of the asset (and ability to hold A LOT of it, plus the low price, and so the potential for profit when the value of that asset moves EVEN SMALL amounts). This most recent PUMP of Dogecoin has finally convinced me that it is a REASONABLE (and likely BEST) candidate for me to start implementing my "monthly buy" (starting THIS month). I will monitor the price of DOGE every day for the next week to see if it falls back down to where it was before the pump, or goes up, or stays the same, and then I will make the first conversion of $5.00 worth of Hive into DOGE (likely NEXT week, using 
Price of Dogecoin following this week's substantial "pump" (whose causes are conjected in the following post:
TikTok Sends Dogecoin Price to 2-Year High
https://cointelegraph.com/news/tiktok-sends-dogecoin-price-to-2-year-high-as-twitter-says-be-smart
$0.0042 USD ( (+) 51.6% ) - Wednesday, July 8th, 2020 ( 3:00 PM - Bangkok Time)
$0.0046 USD ( (+) 22.5% ) - Thursday, July 9th, 2020 ( 9:30 PM - Bangkok Time)
$0.0040 USD ( (-) 3.5% ) - Friday, July 10th, 2020 ( 12:30 PM - Bangkok Time)
$0.0036 USD ( (-) 12.6% ) - Saturday, July 11th, 2020 ( 9:00 PM - Bangkok Time)
...
$0.0029 USD ( (-) xx.x% ) - Friday, July 17th, 2020 ( 1:45 PM - Bangkok Time)
$0.0034 USD ( (+) 14.7% ) - Saturday, July 18th, 2020 ( 2:15 PM - Bangkok Time)
4 ) Great progress has been made o the #DrugWars front -- that is, NOT in terms of direct activity related to the game ITSELF (which I have significaly decreased this past week), but in terms of the progress of the original Drug Wars gang effort, which has now mobilized SIGNIFICANTLY further along in our effort to get the momentum going in #Splinterlands. In fact, the ONLY tasks which I actually did directly in Drug Wars this week was log in once a day to upgrade the "bunker" and "storage" units of all of my bases. This is actually one FURTHER step down (to bare minimum activity) from the previous week's activity. My reasoning for this further decrease in my activity is simply "opportunity cost" at this point. That is, from a strictly MATHEMATICAL perspective, I did the numbers to find that I actually earn more crypto income by opening JUST ONE *Untamed pack (which literally takes 10 seconds of effort) than I do in a WHOLE WEEK of activity (in DWD (Drug Wars Dollars) income) on Drug Wars. In other words, the LONG-TERM FUNDAMENTALS of Drug Wars are a "NUTHIN'burger" compared to that of Splinterlands. I have said ALL ALONG in the posts of this series that I was hanging on with Drug Wars promarily to support one of the few games on the Steem blockchain, but the reasons to continue with the game are dwindling by the week. I will continue with the very minimum tasks as I have this week for another week, but that is about all I will do at this point, before completely ceasing my activity on that game.
But the good news is that, judging from the steady progress made by the other two Drug Wars gang members (in relation to our daily Splinterlands effort) it appears that they agree. In fact, this week has shown STEADY daily progress on Splinterlands, with me dropping one Untamed card each day to each of the two gang members, and them showing consistent daily progress. Both guys posted their daily quest rewards, as well as finished the season up a few levels from the past - including myself (who finally reached the "Champion I" season level), and WE ALL posted daily interesting battles which helped show the others some of our cards in action. The new task I will be adding is to lease each player ONE of my higher-level cards per week, so that they can begin to get a taste for playing with the more powerful cards. I think this will be a further boost to general morale of the group.
5 ) Okay. As I did in the last post in this series, the highly-detailed "diary" of my daily #splinterlands activity is laid out in the last part of this post, for those of you who are inclined to follow, more closely, what I am doing. It occurred to me that this "diary" section is JUST THAT - a highly detailed record of my daily activity in the game, with some JUICY "play-by-play" analysis notes, and commentary, on what works, what doesn't, and some suggestions for further tweaking and experimentation. So, with this in mind, I hope some/any of you will enjoy this information. If not, you are under no pressure to read it fully, and are free to SKIM, or even IGNORE, any parts, or ALL parts, completely - at your discretion. I lay this out because it also HELPS ME to document my progress in the game over time, and may help some people NOW, and into the perpetual future...
Starting DEC : 524 DEC
Starting Capture Rate : ~ 84.33%
Ending DEC - 1,443 DEC
Ending Capture rate : ~ 88.00%
Balance = DEC Earning = 1,114 DEC = -> 2.435 HIVE x ~ $00.216 USD/Hive = ~ $00.525 USD
Spent :
1 x "Ant Miners" (Gold - Level 3 - $0.49 USD - 1,114 DEC -- two (2) cards remaining to Level 5)
Untamed (Pack #1 : today's daily pack)
keepers -
(+) 50 (gifted to gang) (+) 40 DEC
non-keepers -
(+) 20 DEC
Daily Quest (today's "dragon" quest)
keepers -
(+) 40 DEC
nonkeepers -
(+) 35 DEC
potions - 7 legendary potions, 5 alchemy/gold potions
Untamed - 0 packs
DEC - 117 DEC
Starting DEC : 329 DEC
Starting Capture Rate : ~ 84.70%
Ending DEC - 833 DEC
Ending Capture rate : ~ 77.00%
Balance = DEC Earning = 504 DEC = -> 1.09 HIVE x ~ $00.218 USD/Hive = ~ $00.237 USD
Spent :
2 x "Kelp Initiate" (non-gold - Level 1 - $0.33 USD - 731 DEC -- bumped up to Level 2 (to increase "health" from "+5" to "+6")
Untamed (Pack #1 : today's daily pack)
keepers -
(+) 20 (gifted to gang) (+) 40 40 DEC
non-keepers -
(+) 40 DEC
Daily Quest (today's "dragon" quest)
keepers -
(+) 60 DEC
nonkeepers -
(+) 30 DEC
potions - 5 legendary potions, 7 alchemy/gold potions
Untamed - 0 packs
DEC - 40 DEC
Starting DEC : 103 DEC
Starting Capture Rate : ~ 81.51%
Ending DEC - 70,303 DEC
Ending Capture rate : ~ 82.32%
Balance = DEC Earning = 70,200 DEC = -> 147.42 HIVE x ~ $00.215 USD/Hive = ~ $31.69 USD
Spent :
2 x "Ant Miners" (Gold - Level 3 - $0.77 USD - 1,772 DEC -- bumped up to Level 5 (to increase "health" from "+1" to "+2")
Untamed (Pack #1 : today's daily pack)
keepers -
(+) 10 (gifted to gang) (+) 40 DEC
non-keepers -
(+) 30 DEC
Daily Quest (today's "earth" quest)
keepers -
(+) 15 DEC (gifted to gang) + DEC
nonkeepers -
(+) 20 DEC
potions - 7 legendary potions, 2 alchemy/gold potions
Untamed - 0 packs
DEC - 270 DEC
converted 142.700 Hive (from weekly hive power-down) into 69,523 DEC (which I will save and add to next week's power-down to buy more cards towards maxing out my "Zintar Mortalis" (death summoner) and "Alric Stormbringer" (water summoner) cards.
Starting DEC : 68,531 DEC
Starting Capture Rate : ~ 92.92%
Ending DEC - 70,452 DEC
Ending Capture rate : ~ 84.22%
Balance = DEC Earning = 1,921 DEC = -> 3.98 HIVE x ~ $00.237 USD/Hive = ~ $00.943 USD
Spent :
1 x "Screeching Vulture" (Gold - Level 4 - $0.54 USD - 1,179 DEC -- eleven (11) cards remaining to Level 10 (max))
Untamed (Pack #1 : today's daily pack)
keepers -
(+) 20 (gifted to gang) (+) 400 DEC
non-keepers -
(+) 10 DEC
Untamed (Pack #2 : celebration pack for reaching "Champion II" season level --> + 40 loot chests --+ 120 total season loot chests)
keepers -
(+) 50 DEC
non-keepers -
(+) 30 DEC
Daily Quest (today's "dragon" quest)
keepers -
"Gremlin Blaster" (Gold - Level 3 - $1.47 USD - 3,000 DEC)
(+) 200 DEC
nonkeepers -
(+) 55 DEC
potions - 5 legendary potions, 3 alchemy/gold potions
Untamed - 1 packs
DEC - 1,272 DEC
Starting DEC : 69,274 DEC
Starting Capture Rate : ~ 92.92%
Ending DEC - 49,281 DEC
Ending Capture rate : ~ 97.x21%
Balance = DEC Earning = - 19,993 DEC = -> x.xx HIVE x ~ $00.xx USD/Hive = ~ $00.xx USD
Spent :
Spent additional 20,745 DEC (for "Dwarven Wizard" (Gold) card), over the 60,000 DEC earned by burning (2 x "Mermaid Healer" (Gold)) cards (details below). Will resume regular daily purchase of "one gold card" tomorrow.
Untamed (Pack #1 : today's daily pack)
keepers -
(+) 50 (gifted to gang) (+) 0 DEC
non-keepers -
(+) 30 DEC
burned my (2 x "Mermaid Healer" (Gold - Level 3 - $33.80 USD - 60,000 DEC) cards to buy (2 x "Dwarven Wizard" (Gold - Level 3 - $32.00 USD - 80,745 DEC)
Notes: I have been waiting and monitoring the price of the two "Dwarven Wizard" gold cards relative to the "Mermaid Healer" since I did the final batch-buy of Orbs cards two weeks ago. I had put the two "Mermaid Healer" cards onto the market, but the market has now been flooded with a LOT of this card at a much lower price than I have been willing to sell in order to buy up the two Wizard cards needed to bump that guy up to Level 5. I now have BOTH of these gold cards up to Level 5 (which will enable me to earn MORE DEC by using these "one level down from max" in battles. Plus, since the price of each cards is quite historically low now ( each of these cards was selling in the $35 - $40 USD range earlier in the year) it will now at least be POSSIBLE to buy up ONE card at a time ( five (5) more cards needed for each to max each one out) going forward. I may be able to burn some of the remaining EIGHT (8) Untamed airdropped cards as I get them to gradually buy up the remaining cards to max these powerful "gold promo" cards out, which will give 20% bonus each time I use each card (and win) in ranked battles. So the cards ultimate "pay for themselves", but the main issue is getting enough DEC together to ACTUALLY OBTAIN them. Fingers crossed.
Daily Quest (today's "death" quest)
keepers -
(+) 200 DEC
nonkeepers -
(+) 35 DEC
potions - 8 legendary potions, 1 alchemy/gold potions
Untamed - x packs
DEC - 268 DEC
Starting DEC : 49,281 DEC
Starting Capture Rate : ~ 97.21%
Ending DEC - 49,801 DEC
Ending Capture rate : ~ 94.14%
Balance = DEC Earning = - 520 DEC = -> 0.983 HIVE x ~ $00.223 USD/Hive = ~ $00.219 USD
Spent :
Passed on buying any cards today, as I am trying to recoup some of the extra ~ 20,000 DEC I spent on the "Dwarven Wizard gold card a few days ago. I also have a large season dump coming in three days.
Untamed (Pack #1 : today's daily pack)
keepers -
(+) 20 (gifted to gang) (+) 240 DEC
non-keepers -
(+) 10 DEC
Daily Quest (today's "death" quest)
keepers -
(+) 440 DEC
nonkeepers -
(+) 65 DEC
potions - 5 legendary potions, 1 alchemy/gold potions
Untamed - 0 packs
DEC - 164 DEC
Starting DEC : 49,801 DEC
Starting Capture Rate : ~ 94.14%
Ending DEC - 57,634 DEC
Ending Capture rate : ~ 86.60%
Balance = DEC Earning = - 7,883 DEC = -> 14.609 HIVE x ~ $00.224 USD/Hive = ~ $3.27 USD
Spent :
21 x "Zintar Moratis" (non-gold (summoner) - Level 1 - $18.90 USD - 47,884 DEC -- 32 cards remaining to Level 8 (max))
Notes: Saw a discounted cards, and had enough to buy it up, in my effort to max out this Beta "death" summoner (using the Hive power-down income).
1 x "Screeching Vulture" (Gold - Level 3 - $0.50 USD - 1,269 DEC -- ten (10) cards remaining to Level 10 (max))
Untamed (Pack #1 : today's daily pack)
keepers -
(+) 20 (gifted to gang) (+) 80 DEC
non-keepers -
(+) 10 DEC
Daily Quest (today's "water" quest)
keepers -
(+) 70 DEC
nonkeepers -
(+) 280 DEC
potions - 0 legendary potions, 5 alchemy/gold potions
Untamed - 0 packs
DEC - 177 DEC
Starting DEC : 8,481 DEC
Starting Capture Rate : ~ 99.82%
Ending DEC - 9,408 DEC
Ending Capture rate : ~ 86.60%
Balance = DEC Earning = - 927 DEC = -> 1.781 HIVE x ~ $00.216 USD/Hive = ~ $0.384 USD
Spent :
1 x "Screeching Vulture" (Gold - Level 4 - $0.45 USD - 1,141 DEC -- nine (9) cards to go to Level 10 (max))
Untamed (Pack #1 : today's daily pack)
keepers -
(+) 210 (gifted to gang) (+) 0 DEC
non-keepers -
(+) 30 DEC
Daily Quest (today's "fire" quest)
keepers -
(+) 300 DEC
nonkeepers -
(+) 70 DEC
potions - 4 legendary potions, 4 alchemy/gold potions
Untamed - 0 packs
DEC - 255 DEC
Starting DEC : 8,267 DEC
Starting Capture Rate : ~ 86.76%
Ending DEC - 9,517 DEC
Ending Capture rate : ~ 71.31%
Balance = DEC Earning = - 1,250 DEC = -> 2.428 HIVE x ~ $00.217 USD/Hive = ~ $00.526 USD
Spent :
1 x "Parasitic Growth" (Gold - Level 3 - $0.61 USD - 1,508 DEC -- two (2) more cards to Level 7)
Untamed (Pack #1 : today's daily pack)
keepers -
(+) 20 (gifted to gang) (+) 40 DEC
non-keepers -
(+) 20 DEC
Daily Quest (today's "fire" quest)
keepers -
(+) 90 DEC
nonkeepers -
(+) 100 DEC
potions - 3 legendary potions, 2 alchemy/gold potions
Untamed - 0 packs
DEC - 407 DEC
Untamed (Pack #2 : celebration pack for reaching "Champion I" season level --> + 30 loot chests --> + 150 season loot chests)
keepers -
"Parasitic Growth" (Gold - Level 3 - $0.61 USD - 500 DEC --
(+) 0 (gifted to gang) (+) 50 DEC
non-keepers -
(+) 20 DEC
Starting DEC : 8,009 DEC
Starting Capture Rate : ~ 82.63%
Ending DEC - 95,811 DEC
Ending Capture rate : ~ xx.xx%
Balance = DEC Earning = - 87,802 DEC = -> x.xxx HIVE x ~ $00.209 USD/Hive = ~ $00.xx USD
Spent :
35 x "Zintar Mortalis" (non-gold - Level 1 - $31.50 USD - 83,091 DEC -- bumped up to Leve 10 --> maxed out!
2 x "Parasitic Growth" (Gold - Level 3 - $0.97 USD - 2,589 DEC -- bumped up to Level 7 (to increase 'health" from "+3" to "+4")
2 x "Screeching Vulture" (Gold - Level 4 - $0.43 USD - 2,122 DEC -- seven (7) cards remaining to Level 10 (max))
NOtes: I withdrew 3,000 DEC into my Tron wallet, because I had a craving to play slots. I actually turned that 3,000 DEC into 4,700 DEC, and then deposited it back into my Splinterlands wallet and bought these two "Screeching Vulture" cards. I wanted to experiment to see if I could win enough to buy (at least) one gold card by playing slots in Betfury, because I still have a nice weekly trickle of ~ 100 TRX coming in there (from my past deposits), and so I usually play that amount once a week (because it's essentially "free" crypto).
Untamed (Pack #1 : today's daily pack)
keepers -
(+) 20 (gifted to gang) (+) 200 DEC
non-keepers -
(+) 20 DEC
Daily Quest (today's "fire" quest)
keepers -
(+) 200 DEC
nonkeepers -
(+) 120 DEC
potions - 7 legendary potions, 3 alchemy/gold potions
Untamed - 0 packs
DEC - 876 DEC
Season Rewards ("Champion 1" season level --> +150 loot chests )
keepers -
(+) 520 DEC
nonkeepers -
(+) 495 DEC
potions - 26 legendary potions, 20 alchemy/gold potions
Untamed - 0 packs
DEC - 1,623 / 77 / 84 / 44 / 17 / 26 / 23 / DEC
Untamed (Pack #2: celebration for season start at "Diamond 1" level --> +60 season loot chests)
keepers -
1 x "Wizard Of Eastwood" (Gold - Level 2 - $4.20 USD - 2,000 DEC -- bumped up to Level 3)
non-keepers -
(+) 40 DEC
Starting DEC : 3,449 DEC
Starting Capture Rate : ~ 83.70%
Ending DEC - 4,455 DEC
Ending Capture rate : ~ xx.xx%
Balance = DEC Earning = - 1,006 DEC = -> 1.984 HIVE x ~ $00.211 USD/Hive = ~ $00.418 USD
Spent :
1 X "Screeching Vulture" (Gold - Level 4 - $0.40 USD - 1,015 DEC -- six (6) cards remaining to Level 10 (max))
Untamed (Pack #1 : today's daily pack)
keepers -
(+) 20 (gifted to gang) (+) 80 DEC
non-keepers -
(+) 10 DEC
Daily Quest (today's "fire" quest)
keepers -
(+) 1,510 DEC
nonkeepers -
(+) 95 DEC
potions - 8 legendary potions, 0 alchemy/gold potions
Untamed - 1 packs
DEC - 222 DEC
Starting DEC : 3,439 DEC
Starting Capture Rate : ~ 74.14%
Ending DEC - 19 DEC
Ending Capture rate : ~ 93.00%
Balance = DEC Earning = - x,xxx DEC = -> x.xxx HIVE x ~ $00.xx USD/Hive = ~ $00.xx USD
Spent :
No spending today. Actually, I GOOFED and converted ~ 10,000 DEC to Tron ( ~ 224 Tron ) to then play in BetFury.io to try to double the 224 to convert back to DEC to buy more Splinterlands cards (as I did one day this past week). The bad news is that I lost the 224. But the good news is that I am earning a passive daily income of ~ 6.0 Tron ( on BetFury.io ), and so this was a good opportunity to do the numbers to get a sense of how much Tron income I am generating (to calculate how many cards I can buy into the future). Well, at 6 Tron per day it will take 224 / 6 = 33 days. So it will take me 33 days to earn back the 10,000 DEC I lost yesterday, BUT now I know that AFTER THAT I will have 42 Tron per week ( 168 Tron per month ) to convert to DEC to buy more Splinterlands cards. Live and learn.
Untamed (Pack #1 : today's daily pack)
keepers -
(+) 50 (gifted to gang) (+) 200 DEC
non-keepers -
(+) 30 DEC
Daily Quest (today's "win three battles without neutral monsters" quest)
keepers -
(+) 50 DEC
nonkeepers -
(+) 60 DEC
potions - 2 legendary potions, 1 alchemy/gold potions
Untamed - 1 packs
DEC - 337 DEC
Starting DEC : 19 DEC
Starting Capture Rate : ~ 97.157%
Ending DEC - 00 DEC
Ending Capture rate : ~ xx.00%
Balance = DEC Earning = - x,xxx DEC = -> x.xxx HIVE x ~ $00.xx USD/Hive = ~ $00.xx USD
Spent :
Untamed (Pack #1 : today's daily pack)
keepers -
(+) 50 (gifted to gang) (+) 200 DEC
non-keepers -
(+) 20 DEC
Untamed (Pack #2 : celebration pack for reaching "Champion III" season level --> + 20 loot chests --> +80 total season loot chests)
keepers -
"The Vigilator" (non-gold (legendary) - Level 1 - $1.54 USD - 1,000 DEC)
(+) 40 DEC
non-keepers -
(+) 30 DEC
Daily Quest (today's "fire" quest)
keepers -
"Sand Worm" (Gold - Level 3 - $0.89 USD - 500 DEC -- bumped up to Level 4 (to increase "melee" from "+5" to "+6")
(+) 100 DEC
nonkeepers -
(+) 60 DEC
potions - 3 legendary potions, 4 alchemy/gold potions
Untamed - 0 packs
DEC - 26 DEC
Whew! These posts are growing dense - but that's okay. Take what resonates with you,and leave the rest. I hope you find some/any of these tips useful in increasing your understanding and/or skill level in the Splinterlands and/or any other game(s) - and the " blockchain gaming " industry as whole - which I end up exploring as this series evolves. More JUICY tips to come with each weekly update, as I dig deeper into this whole REVOLUTIONARY PHENOMENON, and become more experienced and successful in the game(s).
See you on the battlefield...
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