Steemmonsters/Splinterlands continues to march forward and my gameplay with it. From time to time I post about the game and my current status. Here what’s been going on lately.

Beta Packs are Running Out

The most significant thing is that the beta backs are running out. At the moment of writing this post September 27th there is around 66k pack left out of the 900k. That is only 7% packs remaining.

There are days with 10k packs sold out per day. Not sure when exactly but probably in the next week or two the Beta packs will be all sold out.

Now have in mind that there is additional 79k tokenized packs that can be sold on steem-engine.

The price of those is around 1.7 at the moment but I can imagen that it will go up after the regular packs are sold out. Not all of the 79k tokenized packs are for sale as well. At the moment there is something like 200 packs on the market.

Some reward cars are also running out

There are four reward cards that are all printed out, the Flame Imp, the Mushroom Sheer, the Hobgoblin and the great Lord Arianthus. The price of these cards already spiked especially on the Lord Arianthus with almost 10$ a piece. There is replacement for these cards and they will be all launched on Monday, September 30th as announced in this post.

You can track the percentage of the rewards card printed on this link:
https://steemit.com/splinterlands/@steemmonsters/update-on-new-reward-cards

Some of the other rewards cards are also going fast with more than a 70% being printed. I can tell for sure that the reward cards that are useful and playable will be going up in value after they are printed out.

Untamed

The next edition of the Splinterlands cards will be the Untamed series.

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As stated by Aggy in his resent podcast there will be 1.5 million packs of these packs. They will have a Kickstarter campaign and a presale period. There will probably be a gap between the time when the Beta packs are sold out and until the new Untamed series came out.

Some of the others planned future development are:

• Asynchronous tournaments
• Boss fights
• Guilds wars
• Mining and crafting expansion
• And the big one ### Mobile App

There are no official deadlines for these but the asynchronous tournaments, boss fights and guilds wars should be in a two months period. The mobile app is a huge step forward and it should be launched by the end of the year. The mining and crafting expansion will be somewhere next year. It will allow to pimp your card and add abilities to them.

Personal Status

I’m in the champions league for two to three months now and I’m finishing somewhere between the 60th and the 80th spot. Still can’t manage to get in the top 50 that brings extra reward in form of beta packs. I don’t have all maxed out deck at the moment, and I’m renting a few cards as well. Three to be more precise. I started renting those couple of seasons back since they really do improve my gameplay and don’t cost a lot. I’m in the Peakmonsters PREMIER guild and I have a 9% bonus on DEC from there, that is nice.

I do have all the alpha summoners maxed out (first photo 😊), and I’m so glad I did that. Ever since I maxed them out their price just keep increasing more and more. The life summoner recently hit a 7$ a piece! That is crazy. Who knows what will be the price of it this time next year? A maxed out Alpha Life summoner goes for 500$! The Water Alpha summoner is above 200$ and Selina as well. Overall the price of most of the cards just keep increasing. And this is happening in the worst period for the STEEM price with only 13 cents.

On the monsters side I still have cards to upgrade. I have 2 to 3 legendary monsters that I want, and that I’m renting at the moment. The Angel of Light and the Gold Dragon are the ones that I want. Till now I was maxing out the Alpha monsters, but at this point, they are getting to expensive. From here on I will need to be satisfied with the Alpha cards that I have and continue my upgrades with Beta only. There is not much cards left that I want to max out, as previously mentioned, 2 to 3 legendary and 5 to 10 of the other cards. I’m at a point from where I can do this with the in-game earnings, but I will still need months to achieve it. If I step up my tournaments it may be faster.

On the reward cards side, I have them all maxed out a month ago. Or at least the ones I use, that is like 70% of them, and for the first time I’m able to have extra reward cards for sale. Basically, every reward card I get is profit. I have been selling and burning them to get DEC and buy the upgrades I need. But going forward I will probably start stacking a part of them, seeing how they increase in price after they are printed out.

The current season have only three days left, and I will need to push in these days. I’m a bit laid back this season probably because the previous season I really pushed a lot but didn’t manage to get in the top 50. For this one I just plan to get to Champion I league, as I’m doing for the previous two months.

Cards Value

I usually don’t want to show off with things like this, but all of this is on the blockchain and transparent so here it goes. Also, I want to make a point what kind of journey this has been.

Here how the value of my cards has been increasing starting from January this year.

I have done some investments as well, but this result is amazing. I have gone from a 100$ to a 2000$ in a nine months period. I believe that most of this increase in value have come from the Alpha cards, but the other cards have done well also.

There is a connection with the overall marketcap!

Today stats are like this.

Splinterlands has been a great journey for me so far and I hope for a lot more to come.

All the best
@dalz