How to increase your collection power by selling cards

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Splinterlands has been a part of my life for a long time. So even when I don't talk about it in my post, you can rest assured that I'm battling away in the background and growing my account in the same way I do it on the blogging front-ends.

The game has experienced a lot of changes over the years and these changes have largely improved the gaming experience, albeit make it more difficult and competitive. Games are supposed to be competitive, so they're getting it right and one factor that has influenced the competition, as well as rewards that you receive from the game is your collection power.

Do you have the power?

So without getting in too deep about the history of collection power and why it was added to the game, I'll just explain what it is and how it affects gameplay.

Collection power is a feature in the game that determines the ceiling or maximum league a player can participate in. For each league that the player participates in, the player earns a specific amount of daily rewards and season rewards.

The higher you go, the more rewards you can earn. However, the problem is that getting higher has been made complicated by collection power.

Collection power is influenced by the cards that you have in your arsenal. The value of collection power is influenced by the rarity and the type of card.

SO for each card, you have in your deck, your collection power increases. However, I've noticed that the collection power rating of a card doesn't necessarily translate to the value of the card.

In fact, despite the fact that collection power is directly correlated to the number of loot chests you earn from daily and seasonal rewards, the rarity and ability of cards still have more pull in the market.

More power, less loss

Knowing that rarity and ability are more important(at least to the market) than the collection power rating of a card, it opens up a route for you to increase your collection power without losing pace.

So let's back up a little bit to understand the point I've been making. It is fundamental to grasping how you can leverage the market condition to increase your collection power without hurting your deck.

A simple analogy

So let's say you have one legendary card that you're not using for battle and let's assume the legendary card is Bila the Radiant. Note that you don't particularly need this monster's abilities at the time and so, she's surplus to requirement.

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Bila the radiant is one of the cheapest or maybe even the cheapest legendary cards available. In reality, you could get up to $25 for a single ordinary legendary card. However, let's just use this monster to drive the point home.

Now let's say you sell this legendary card at the market price, your collection power would take a -1000 hit. However, if you take the proceeds and invest it in a rare gold foil, you will have increased your collection power with some change to spare.

In this analogy, let's assume the rare gold foil monster be a Centauri mage. It is one of the cheaper rare gold foils but I reckon with more search you could find another that is even cheaper.

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If you pick this Centauri mage from the market, at the current going rate, then you will have doubled your collection power and still have some change to spare.

Leveraging redundancy

Now it is important to note that this approach is solely based on the fact that both or either card will be redundant. In this analogy, we assumed that the legendary monster that was sold is redundant.

So the gold foiled rare monster that you add simply just replaces the redundant legendary monster. However, through this simple process, you will have increased your collection power.

Now if you're fortunate enough to have an even more expensive legendary card that's just laying there, then you could even increase your collection power by many folds.

In my attempt to test out this concept, I sold almo cambo for 8918 DEC and then bought 3 gold foil Dark astronomers for 6335 DEC. So in the process, my collection power rose by 5000 DEC by replacing one redundant monster for three redundant monsters.

Note

There's an airdrop on the horizon and I'm not sure how the value of your assets will be evaluated. What I'm saying is that I don't know if the market value or collection power will take eminence in valuation.

If collection power is the basis for the SPS governance token airdrop, then you're better off selling your redundant legendary cards for rare and even Epic gold foils. However, it is all speculation and shouldn't be taken as financial advice.




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