Why I invested more than 1000$ into SL cards today
According to Splintercards, when looking at the pack value since the first moment chaos legion packs could been opened, is has dropped from 15$ to around 5.8$ today. At first sight, this might look very negative because not only the CL cards are losing value but about all the cards in the game are cheaper today. People who have just joined the game might end up panicking, believing they will lose their investments.
It's good for the game in the long run if card prices come down
Having played the game for more than 3 years, I know from experience that there are always phases when card prices go up and down. It has to do with the edition releases and honestly the price increase after untamed run out was kind of crazy. Now we have the card prices come down and new players can actually buy cards quite cheaply. For 25$ you can already buy a summoner of level two. If you are willing to invest some money, you will quickly be able to get your 1000 CP to climb into the leagues where you get some nice rewards.
From a game perspective, I think that this is very important. This will allow new players to be competitive on the same level than older players. So far all the money from the new players went into the pockets of the older ones, making them even more powerful. Now they can buy packs, sell and buy cards and even rent cards out on a same level than existing players. This is very good because these players will quickly see the potential of the game and start to upgrade their decks. They will increase competition at higher levels and will also force existing players to go on upgrading their cards. This in return will generate more demand for cards, more upgrading and in the long term new users will see that with an affordable investment they can start to play profitably.
So what should we do when prices go down ?
We should profit to buy cards. That's the best thing to do. I don't like to buy packs because I get many cards that I don't need. I prefer to single the cards out that are useful for my deck on the market. I believe that card prices will drop even a bit more and then we should see quite stable prices from there. The cards we buy can help us to improve our deck and maybe in the long run they can help us for the land extension and maybe even for rentals once CL is sold out...
I invested more than 1000$ into Dr. Blight
That's what I'm doing and I invested today into the card that I believe is the most powerful in the CL edition so far and it's Dr. Blight. I hadn't taken part in the pre-sale and sold all my vouchers. So I didn't get any airdroped cards. Today I used a part of this money from vouchers to buy and upgrade Dr. Blight. Another reason why I have chosen this card is that there will be no more such cards in the packs. The only Dr. Blight cards that can still be minted is of people who haven't claimed their airdrop yet. With a limited supply and a powerful card, I think that it's a good long term investment not only financially but also to improve my deck.
I often regretted not having bought Yodin Zaku when it was 40$ on the market. Today, I paid more than double that amount per card for Dr. Blight. Better be safe than sorry ;-)
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i liked very much the way you put it achim!!
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blight is a pretty good card, but yeah wow I can't imagine getting a yodin at 40
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Since Blight is a limited edition card with close to 20'000 cards in circulation, I'm scared that prices will go to the moon before I bought it :-). If only I had bought Yodin for 40$ lol.
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gold foil or just maxed out a regular?
I bought 12 regular ones. For my deck I made a level 3 one and I keep 6 single ones to rent later or to create another level 3 one. I've been playing with the card the whole day. I love it in last position lol
Hmm, you don't like weaken? :) Or it seems too expensive 5 blights for weaken?
I think it's pretty expensive 5 blights to get weaken :-). I prefer to have two of them at level 3 :-)
Thanks for your view on this. Much appreciated insights 😀
Well probably there are many ways to look at it and it's up to us to see what we can take from these views :-)
Wow nice job getting the cards. I guess waiting for things to cooldown was probably better price-wise and I like that you are choosing something limited in supply. I don't think I will buy any but I am tempted to.
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I have hesitated quite a long time before doing the move. Maybe it was too early but I prefer to overpay by 10$ than by 100$ lol
I think I'm beginning to understand finally this mantra about not buying packs, and instead buy cards. I think due to my own stubbornness, I bought a pack, didn't wait until the prices were low and bought impulsively some cards that tanked a few days later. I should have treasure my voucher or sell it at a better prices and I should have listened much better about buying what you need to improve your game. I'm slowly recovering and picking here and there some good offers, but I needed the hit on my head for all those explanations to make sense. Thank you so much for sharing these videos, specially for us relatively new to this game!
I love to buy packs but I always get tons of cards that I can't use. This happened often in the past and I try to learn from it. I prefer to concentrate on the cards that I really need. Like that I believe it's more efficient :-)
Congrats for your investment! I think it is a great one. Blight can often be decisive in battles.
I've been using blight regularly and I feel much more competitive in diamonds :-)
Also waiting for the sale of packs without vouchers, to see stable prices and collect their deck, perhaps the maximum level)
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To max a card is pretty expensive and it's better to have the according summoners before doing it. For me it made a lot of sense :-)
Yes, I agree, if possible I'll try to buy summoners for them as well)
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Nice investment into Dr Blight.. Hmm maybe I should consider getting one too! Hehe!
I love this card, especially at level 3. I'm using it whenever I can :-)
Things might be low but I believe it's a season to weed the diamond hands from the cheap ones. When you start to see Splinterlands as a long term investment you won't panic because with more experience comes knowledge about this space. Cheers to more investment in the game
When prices are high people complain things are too expensive. When prices are low people are scared :-). I just like to buy things cheaply lol