Splinterlands: The Money Strategy VS Soulbound Value

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This season on splinterlands has been the most difficult, it's now likely that I'll never be able to get to 40 chests, after my calculations, the best I can do before the season ends is 35 and that'll be 7 chests short of my last campaign, that's if I ever get to 35 as I'm currently in 29.

With just over two days to go. It's been another abysmal outing in my guild, with me winning one game and losing 6 fray battles. In the seven games, I faced a quora towershead twice and one Gladius card in all the games.

In the matches I could have won, the opponents locked my strongest deck, because they know that if I had that (water) element available, I'd still tear them apart even if they came with gladius cards.

But they found a way to lock my water deck and made me unable to use it

This hurt a lot, but, it's the competition. The people with more money get to pay for such features as this and even have the chance of taking a look at your potential lineup before you put them out there.

But fray battles in the guild are the wild wild west. There are no restrictions, no limits, and no holds barred. In fact, it's like the informal format of ranked battles.

Here, you're given the opportunities to win at all costs provided that is what you want at a particular cost, and seeing these guys come out with their massive gladius lineup alright scares you before the beginning of the battle.

The abilities of these cards are just so good

.....before the second or third round, the battle is done and you're o as I have this season both in my fray and ranked battles. This is because of the dynamics of the game that's changed once more.

It takes time to adjust to the dynamics and come up with a winnable strategy. On this occasion, I don't think there's a winnable strategy against the Gladius cards. In this period, it's just classic "join them, if you can't beat them".

Of course, I already predicted that having gladius cards in ranked battles was going to change winnable strategies. This prompted me to join a guild because that was the only way I could stay competitive.

You know, it's good for players to own non-tradable assets

.......one that money cannot buy, but it becomes super queer when you invest in tradable assets only for you to be defeated with that cards that actually costs nothing to buy.

Although the value for owning these Gladius cards is gotten from the success and utility or your tradable assets, at the same time, splinterlands are trying to say "join guilds" without telling people to actually join a guild.

I feel that when these beasts are unleashed in the ranked battles. The only option for the competition was to actually join a Guild and begin to fight to own one's personal deck of unbeatable cards.

Have you seen the Quora in a single match?

dude is virtually unbeatable, not by a kron, not by anything

It can take out an entire lineup and still keep waxing strong and just imagine that one of the most formidable cards in the game is actually not Purchasable and had to be gotten or owned by earning merits points.

It feels like an asset that the value is increasing and still goes for $0.00. If the Quora was thrown into the market, the maxed-out card could easily be going for $10,000 and people will still pay to have it. It's the beauty of the game.

However, I like the fact that even financial skin in the game doesn't give you all the resources you want to keep winning.

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A way Forward?

So once again, I've been defeated by these guys again in my fray and I have been wondering what I need to do to increase my winning ratio and point as well. I cannot afford to lose again in the manner which 've lost this season.

However, I managed to also open a Gladius pack. Nothing is exciting in the content again, except for two epics. I'm gradually taking the win as I know it'll be hard to fully grow a Gladius deck overnight. I'm taking it slowly because I want to seriously help my guild members to win more and I want to help myself to keep winning.

Again, I've gotten 1.55k Merits and 15.5 staked SPS. The grind continues and I hope I can do better this time.

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