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Another fray has come and gone in my guild and I'm happy to be paying for more gladius packs with the merit rewards I'm getting. If gladius cards were not soulbound-ish. I'm sure their value might have been bastardized.

When an asset is purchasable, it levels the playing field and gives more people with resources the ability to own these assets thereby terrorizing and monopolizing the power of these gladius cards.

This is because the Gladius cards are more powerful. For a long while, I thought they'll only be used in Guild battles until the "Are You Not Entertained" ruleset came into place.

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The Stakes Are Changing

Now it gives guild players who have been amassing these fortunes (gladius cards) for a very long time, the opportunity to stun their ranked battle opponents.

I'm happy they'll never be tradable and even if they would, these cards have to return to the guild, or ranked gaming will become less competitive with this dominance.

For an average player who doesn't have the means, I might be tempted to sell some of my cards in other to purchase these cards, because of the power of these beasts and especially if I'm been subdued by them for far too long.

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The Unfair Advantage

In life, we mostly purchase what has created unfair advantages against us for other people, because we want to easily establish that situation of unfair advantage against people, especially when we've experienced how brutal it can be, to be on a losing side and you cannot do anything to salvage it.

On the other hand, splinterlands have made this impossible.

You cannot buy or create unfair advantages by having money alone nowadays, you need to dedicate non-monetary value such as play time to build or amass some of these items that keep you insanely competitive.

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The Inability To Completely "Pay-To-Earn"

In the past, it was easy to almost buy whatever you want to get to the pinnacle, rent a bot and put the game on auto and farm endlessly, but the narrative is changing.

They're gradually trying to reduce the idea that the game is completely "pay to earn" by making the guild cards soulbound (to an extent) One thing they've done well (splinterlands INC) is including the merits as one of the rewards in ranked battles.

This way, players can build their stash of merit and eventually use them to buy as many gladius packs as they want especially if they now decide to join a Guild in the future. The future is actually now.

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Creating Domineering Utilty

Before I joined a guild, I hated merit rewards, now I'm always hoping and wishing for them. Splinterlands has stylishly made it very important and necessary for players to join guilds because the incentives are now piling up.

In the past, I never saw any reason to be there, but with the inclusion of those beasts into ranked battles, the narrative has changed. Apart from earning staked SPS, and getting more gladius packs from the merit rewards as well, Players can now effectively build unique strategies.

for people who have been diligently building a differently gifted deck________The Gladius Army On splinterlands, your resources matter to some extent.

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Having A Different Type Of "Skin In The Game"

This means that the more skin in terms of money, the more you're likely to achieve a lot of your aims. Like the number of collection Power you want, the number of legendary cards you want to own, and even the amount of staked SPS as well.

However, it's different nowadays, Some of these competitive assets require a complementary skin: Time and resilience. So again, I got 17.1 staked SPS and 1.55k MERIT in my latest guild involvement (better than last time).

But I lost so much and this worries me. Again, the opponents are taking advantage of the Gladius stash to blow apart their opponents and I've been beaten severely by these cards. The aim is to keep building my collection, In 4 months, I want to be able to have a fully competitive gladius deck.

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