At a time that I still didn’t know how card rewards work, I unknowingly received a common gold level 3 Nightmare, a death splinter. The market price of this card now is $18.00. I only realized it later when I see the importance of collection power in playing Splinterlands.
That was my first season. The following two seasons, I forgot the card rewards I received for most of them were common. After two seasons receiving just minimal rewards, during the fourth season, I received my second gold card, a rare level 2 life splinter, Venari Crystalsmith. Its current market price is $23.40.
And then the fifth season is just like the second and the third where I received common cards. It was then followed by the most rewarding season, which is my sixth on Splinterlands. I received a level 2 gold fire splinter, Lava Launcher. At that time, its market price was more than $100.00. This card added 2,500 to my collection power. And because of this, I reached Bronze I league without relying on rentals.
Moreover, my card rewards story had another milestone when I checked the accounts of my family. As I already shared in my previous post, my second son almost abandoned this game perhaps due to the difficulty he experienced to climb up to higher leagues. Consequently, after three months his total card value is just less than $3.00. Currently, with the card rewards from the just newly ended season and with the help of the SPS airdrop I received, which I used to purchase cards with utility in the game, the card value of my son improved to $10.46. If within just few days, the card value of my son can be more than tripled, I am just thinking, what could be in store for us after a year of playing this game? The immediate goal is for all their accounts to reach Bronze I league as a base without reliance on card rentals. I think with the assistance of both the SPS airdrop and the staking rewards, it is not far-fetched to say than a $1,000 worth of card value is achievable in less than a year. That would be our target for 2022.
The seventh, which is the just finished one, but more accurate to say, the first season for my wife and my youngest son, the card rewards we received are a combination of common and rare. For rzc24nft-bbg account, these are the rewards I received: Pelacor Mercenary, Venari heatsmith, and Venari Wavesmith. The total market price of these three cards is $4.71.
As for my wife’s account, she received two Pelacor Bandits, a Gargoya Lion, and a rare Venari Bonesmith. The market price of these four cards is now $1.07.
As for my second son, his card rewards include three Pelacor Mercenary and one Gargoya Lion. Total market price is $0.65.
Finally, as for my youngest son, the total market price of the card rewards he received is $0.86, which includes Pelacor Deceiver, Venari Heatsmith, and a rare dragon splinter, Naga Assassin.
The rewards this last season were minimal. It reminds me of the two previous seasons. In playing Splinterlands, patience and a long-term perspective are required. Who knows? Perhaps the rewards at the end of this current season would be better. If not, perhaps the next? No one knows for sure, but the most important thing is that though minimal, through the seasons, your card accumulation is increasing. Who knows what might be the price of these NFT cards three to five years from now? This space, though some would say is already in the bubble, but I actually doubt that. I think that we are still at the early stage of this NFT blockchain based games, for most people are still clueless how this thing works. Without understanding the technology behind it, not a few would even think of it as a form of Ponzi scheme.
Nevertheless, if someone would ask me what do I think of Splinterlands? This will be my reply: Splinterlands is a convergence of five different domains (or perhaps more) into one. If you will put it into an equation, it will go like this:
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Grace and peace!