I have been a long time Splinterlands player since August of 2021. When I joined, I was fascinated by the Play-To-Earn features of the game specifically how you can earn DEC from winning battles. I am also amazed with the fact that you can buy some cards with it in the player driven market and you can even convert these DECs to fiat to buy some IRL things.

Of course, a lot of things changed since then. Instead of DEC, SPS is now the rewards token. And you can now earn an in-game token called GLINTs. Reward cards are now Soulbound and can only be transferrable when unbounded. Summoner level caps by league has also been removed. This to me, has been a problem.

I can't use the reward cards I earned immediately due to low level. I can't even convert them to DEC so I can buy the summoners I am maxing out and get out of Silver league. As a low-level mage playing owned cards, that summoner level cap removal has become bummer for me. I found it difficult to battle high level to maxed cards in Silver and it frustrates me losing to them. So, I did what a not-so-normal but avid player of Splinterlands will do, sell all my low-level cards and rent some maxed cards and duke it out in higher leagues!

Now, for almost a year, I have been renting cards every season and slowly building up my Soulbound deck. For the first few months I have been unstaking the SPS I earned to rent out maxed Chaos Legion deck. This brought me to become at least a Gold league player. When collection power was removed, I stopped playing for a while since I don't have the enough SPS staked to earn me some decent rewards. I concentrated on playing some scholar accounts and earn some SPS with it.

My Splinterlands scholar life is not that smooth. I still find it challenging to reach the Diamond league. I got removed from some scholar accounts eventually and searched my Splinterself in the void. I needs someone, something, anytihng, to fund my Splinterlife. And then, I saw a light.

The light that I saw in the void, is Blogging. Yes, I have been blogging for almost three years but this is the first time I have been blogging regularly. Thanks to @shawnnft for introducing me to HIVE blogging. Now, I receive some funds regularly to rent out some cards I can use to play Splinterlands.

I know, for the most part, this kind of playing is not permanent. Renting is also not that as profitable as actually owning your cards. Owning assets in the game is still the most sustainable way to play the Splintergames But as I got through the renting life, these are the realizations I thought of - advantages of renting - as some might call it.

Soon, Chaos Legion will rotate out of Modern and go to the Wild format. This format rotation doesn't bother a renter like me as I could just rent the current Modern sets. Of course, the pricing will be different and it may be even higher when Rebellion and the next set becomes the Modern set. But I know it will settle to a reasonable renting price as time goes on. Players who own cards are a bit bothered by this as their choice will be to buy the new Modern set or go to Wild format. Then again, it's not bad of a life either.

When you own a particular card, you tend to have a bias on that card. I felt that way too. I remember owning a maxed Silver Kelya and I have been using it every freaking time. It doesn't matter if I lose. If I win, it's all because of Kelya. Kelya rocks!

When I get to my renting life, I got introduced to a variety of meta. It widens my horizons. My Kelya bias is gone. Renters focuses more on gameplay and what would get them more GLINTs and glory. When we see a powerful card, we rent it.

As of this writing, the ROI is good. Aside from the GLINTs you earn, the staked SPS earned is great! This is coming from a Modern player of course. Slowly, but surely, I have been building up my staked SPS so that there will come a time I don't have to rent SPS anymore