It’s a great way to end the last season with my last DF rewards receiving a chaos legion pack. As I opened it, there was a huge shaking. After more or less a year of playing Splinterlands, it was my first time receiving a legendary card as a reward. This time it’s Grum Flameblade, a fire monster with Bloodlust and Void Armor abilities at level 1.

The current market price of the card is $6.06. I was thinking of selling it and buying an earth monster instead. I am torn between Mitica Headhunter and Mushroom Seer.

My earth collection is weak. By buying these two cards, my earth deck will be strengthened. So far, I am satisfied with my fire, water, and life collections. I am still weak when it comes to dragon, death, neutral, and earth.

Mitica is very fast. Every time I play this card, it always has the first attack advantage due to its speed. This hunter also has Snare ability. He can capture and destroy a flying enemy without difficulty.

As for Mushroom Seer, its Silence ability makes magic enemies weak. Having Unicorn Mustang as the team’s tank, the magic enemies one attack can easily be canceled out by Mushroom Seer’s Silence and Unicorn Mustang’s Void abilities.

A Recollection of My Early Months

For almost a year of playing the game, the highest reward I received so far was an Epic Fire Monster. The card at that time was worth more than $100.00. Its lowest market price now is $4.08. That’s a huge decline of 95.92%.

And that’s why I hesitated to sell Grum Flameblade. It’s $6.06 now, higher than Lava Launcher. I was thinking that perhaps if there will be a bounce in card price months from now, Grum will be worth 10 times its current market price.

During my early months in playing Splinterlands, I sold cards that I thought were no longer necessary. I considered them excess and at that time I didn’t find much utility for them in the game. Later, I realized their usefulness and they become expensive. I am talking about Onyx Sentinel and Axemaster.

I sold at least three Onyx Sentinel and three Axemaster. After stumbling with Lord Arianthus, I realized that Onyx is a cheaper replacement, for the latter will have the Void ability at level 3.

Grateful for the Rewards

Receiving a legendary card on my last Daily Focus last season is more than enough consolation for me and not to mention the rewards I received as the season ended.

Yes, I agree with a couple of articles that I read so far that last season was difficult. It was difficult not only because of the noticeable decline in the USD value of the chests but also because of the struggle to increase the number of chests. Compared to the 23rd and 24th seasons, both my personal account and my family’s accounts received a higher number of DF chests and rewards as well as the EOS chests and rewards. Forty to fifty chests in the Bronze I League appear easy.

However, in the last season, increasing the number of chests was a struggle. When I observed such a change, I stopped doing DFs in the Bronze league and focused instead on just one account, my Silver III account.

As a result, I completed eight DFs during our 25th season. As for the Bronze I accounts of my family, all of them just completed one DF. The total USD value I received from the first seven DFs was just $0.26. Completing the eighth and last DF, the reward is $1.83. But as I mentioned earlier, when I opened the pack, Grum Flameblade appeared. And so, the total USD value of that last DF was more than $6.06. Surprisingly, the worth of that one Daily Focus is more than the value of the first seven DF chests plus the twenty-four EOS chests.

As I commented in @gadrian’s post, given the fact that earning rewards and increasing chests are getting more difficult, I think players have to learn to accept the reality of the random character of the rewards. I agree with him that no one knows the “next rewards might blow you away!”

An Extension of Orca Power

Though a different platform, a similar experience happened to me twice in LeoFinance as a result of participating in the #LPUD challenge. This is my second month winning that 20,000 LEO delegation. My Orca Power has just been extended for the next three weeks. The experience reminds me of an Old Testament text:

We may throw the dice, but the LORD determines how they fall (NLT, Proverbs 16:33).

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Grace and peace!