The end of this recent season marked my 2nd as a Splinterlands player - which means I have been playing for almost a month now! In that time, Chaos Legion has been released, the starter decks have changed, and I have found myself accidentally joining at what feels like the perfect time - old players and new both had to adjust to the new meta!
As a long term physical card game player I love these sort of meta shifts when new cards are released and so decided to really push for these 2 seasons and see how far I could go with just a $100 investment to start. Here’s how it went:
Season 1
At the start of my first season I had only been playing Splinterlands a few days beforehand, and on the first day of this season I put $30 worth of DEC into my account. With this, I intended to rent to Silver 3 - where I would see much better DEC earnings per game - and a 2nd reward chest for my daily quest.
I came across a big help to my efforts on the day of the CL launch though - the bots weren’t updated! I quickly raised through the ranks into Silver 3 - and my rating even went up to the Silver 1 level briefly!
Here's what my earnings look like after I started keeping track for my first season:
In just over half a season I had received over 1100 DEC worth of rewards (at prices when I received them for cards), and over 400 Collection Power that I would no longer need to rent! This was a great help to my goal of getting 15k power to not have to rent at all to Silver 3.
Season 2
In my second season I decided to see just how far I could push and still have it be profitable. I rented all the way up to Gold 3 this time, which got far more expensive as the season went on. I was making a loss most days on renting and rewards, until the end of the season:
(The legendary for any asking was Djinn Biljka!)
You can see in this season I struggled to get out of bronze to begin with, even when renting a lot of cards! This led to big initial losses. Also end of season rent increase was a lot higher than I thought - paying 400 DEC to end in Gold ended up paying off from some nice chest rewards - but it could easily not have!
Despite these mistakes, I still ended up the season with 1400 DEC worth of rewards, including 830 power worth of cards.
So having bought 5000 power for myself to begin - I am now at over 6000 after only a month! I’m setting myself a goal of gaining 500 power a season from chests or DEC rewards I convert into cards so that I can eventually have a silver 3 deck fully owned. I also want to slowly upgrade my summoners to level 2 and 3 to make use of some higher level cards! Some of my owned cards are already level 2 epics/level 4 rares so when I am renting summoners I can climb easier - but I would much prefer to not have to!
Thank you all for reading this long - let me know if you have any tips for how I can better optimise my earnings and account growth. For now I’m going to be renting 10k power and staying in S3, and so far this season I am seeing consistently profitable days of around 100 DEC - mostly from DEC from wins so much less of a gamble on the chests like when I climbed to Gold!
I plan on releasing one of these blog posts every season from now on to track of earnings are going up or down - and to record my journey, so I’ll see you all at the end of the season!
