This is technically my 2nd day playing but my 1st day playing for real since I just bought the Summoner's Spellbook and can now earn rewards. I signed up yesterday, but spent most of my time trying to figure out the basics. I read the faq and played through the tutorial before finally trying out a match against another player. I still didn't really know what I was doing. I just kind of tried to repeat what I'd done in the tutorial (putting the same cards in the same positions). It worked out since I did win the match, but I was still pretty confused about card positions, mana costs, and other stuff. I spent some time reading the different card attributes and trying to figure out which cards were 'tanks', which were 'range', where they were supposed to be positioned, and so on.
After that I decided to go ahead and buy the Spellbook. However, when I was making the purchase I saw that it would cost me a $20 fee to buy the $10 Spellbook! I was not thrilled about this. I decided to call it a day and see if I could figure something out later on. This morning I browsed around Reddit a bit to see if there was any advice about getting around the high ETH fees we have right now. Eventually, I found a user advising to use Litecoin instead of ETH since they have low fees right now, and I remembered that I do actually have some Litecoin!
This was really lucky since I don't normally buy altcoins and just keep most of my investments in ETH. But I remembered that years ago I'd found a faucet that paid out in both Bitcoin and Litecoin that I'd tried it out for a while. I didn't earn much from it and hadn't bothered to withdraw the Litecoin from the wallet I was using at the time. I looked up my old password and checked the wallet's balance this morning and found that the coins were now worth around $40! More than enough to buy the Spellbook! I haven't decided yet if I want to spend the rest of the money on cards or just hold onto it for a while. I'm really glad I didn't have to wait for ETH gas prices to go down before I could really begin playing Splinterlands.