Clearing the Calendar for Chaos Legion....

It had to be done, putting aside a day for the official launch of Chaos Legion, and pack openings.

I actually made a point of working yesterday evening to clear my schedule for today - which is a luxury I have, working for myself, so I did a bit of extra marking and wrote a couple of extra blog posts last night instead of today.

That gave me the time to be able to relax into one of my favourite activities - opening Splinterlands cards packs, examining the cards and generally feeling the vibe in the Discord and on people's blog posts.

What I got....

Well firstly the Dr Blight Drop..... nice to get 19 of these, and my guaranteed GLF...

Nice to see slow replaced by Camoflauge, a much stronger ability which gives blight some much needed defence, also more suited I think to his sneaky nature!

Pack openings....

I held back a little and so far I've only opened 50 packs (the server was down briefly for a period which helped!).

I opened 20 initially and ended up with mainly commons, but some reasonable rare cards...

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I had much better luck with the next 30 having pulled 2 legendaries from those 50 packs and over all and over 10 golds, which I think might be well above the average!

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Of course I did the obligatory card opening video too, which I'll post on @revise.spt laters, seems rude not to/!

Testing out some new cards.....

It would have been RUDE to have not given some of the new cards a trial run....

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I'm pleased to say this resulted in a victory, but it was close!

Renting out some New Cards....

I put a few of the blights on the market - for 2.55 DEC each a day, the gold went for around 60 DEC a day, I have this feeling that these cards might well be in demand at Level 1 given the starting position of 2 buffs already.

We'll see whether economics dictates the need to combine a few!

Splinterlands - changing lives...

It feels crazy to have bought 1000 packs in the pre-sale in the first place, but it was a good Vest decision I think, I've already made back the money I used to buy voucher in the first place by selling my surplus voucher and some DEC/ SPS over the last month.

This opening one just had to be part of, it's the most significant development in the game since Dice were released over a year ago now, and everything since has been building to this.

I think the value of these packs and these cards is going to be solid going forwards.

What's next...

Well I'm up for phase two - I have 85K SPS staked and ready for 1000 packs in the next phase, near enough, then there's just the gamble on the main sale - whether I'll get my desired 6K packs total remains to be seen, but for now, I'm hedging my bets and going fairly large in phase two.

At the end of the day, it's the cards that have the value, everything else stems from them!



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Nice! I didn't know Dr Blight had Slow replaced by Camouflage. That's much better. Even if it's not a team buff/debuff itself, by keeping the Doctor alive longer it makes its other debuffs more impactful!

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I agree, camo is really much better suited and better powered!

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Great numbers on your splinterlands deck.

I chickened out of the presale but will jump in for the general one. Loving the new cards on the market today and i think there will be a great chance to buy on the secondary market soon when the full amount go on sale.

6k would be massive for your deck. I'm aiming for 2k packs when they launch and will build up the vouchers now to get there day 1.

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We'll see how the 6K goes, it might end up being closer to 4K packs all in, which is still pretty decent, and then there's always buying on the market as you say to top up!

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I didn't get any Blights. I just couldn't buy enough packs and didn't get one by luck. Only opened a couple so far. Will do more later. I'm just spending what I make from the game.

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I don't rely on luck with drops - you have to throw money at the game to guarantee anything decent, so far it's working out OK!

I'm actually moving funds into the game (just other crypto) - it gives a very nice return, hard to igore!

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I know others are piling money into it and I hope that works out for them, but it feels like a bit of a bubble. It is just a game and the majority of players cannot afford to invest that much. A few are looking to get rich from it. I am doing okay from rentals and SPS, so I can't complain. You know I'm not just driven by money, so I do not worry too much about missing out.

!BEER

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Wow, Looks like you are good to go! That is awesome. I had some pretty good luck with my pack openings today too. It was really exciting, but it took most of my morning. I decided to catalog all my opens in a spreadsheet and I wrote a post about it.

The ROI on these are insane. You can just rent them out and make back anything you spent in like a month!

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I'm having more luck with the golds than the legendaries, I'm being quite strict about selling anything I don't like the look of - I'd rather have 1 good card than 20 average ones!

Why do a spreadsheet? There's an online tool that does it all for you?

The returns are great, I'm thinking my best bet is to sell all my duff cards and buy even more packs, and resist buying to level up now, taking a short term loss in the rental market.

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Very interesting.i had planned on just putting most of mine on the rental market. It needs to solidify a bit first. I just found out yesterday afternoon about the tools!

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Hi,
I had bought a few steemmonsters Alpha when they got out but never got around to play the game. I started recently and I feel completely lost. Do you have a "splinterlands for dummies" post you would recommend ? I would like for instance to buy some cards and don't understand how ...

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I guess the first place is the gameplay - https://splinterlands.com/?p=gameplay

There's also a guide on the main site to the market I think.

You need to login - click on 'market' and then you need DEC to purchase - which you can buy with Hive or a whole load of other things.

The DEC whitepaper is also worth a read

https://docs.splinterlands.com/dark-energy-crystals

I'll drop in anything else useful I find on my travels, there's always the Discord, but that's BUSY!

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The gameplay I got, my main question is: how can I buy some.cards ? Everything seems "sold out". I read the DEC whitepaper TOC, it seems to talk about DEC, not about cards, am I mistaken ?

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Oh do you mean the chaos legion packs>?

You need 'Voucher' to be able to buy packs, 1 VOUCHER (available on HE) = 1 pack, you need both.

The only way to get VOUCHER other than by buying them is to stake SPS tokens, then you get a daily drop for the next 28 days (two out of thirty gone already).

OR you can wait for the general sale when you won't need voucher, but there's a risk all the packs will sell out very early on.

Or if you're talking about not being able to buy individual cards - there is a glitch with the market on Splinterlands - quite often the cheapest cards have already been bought but they still show - I often have to scroll up and buy the more expensive ones up the order.

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yea, did a writeup on mine as well, I did a rough calculation and including the Blights seem to have doubled my money. Should have gone for the 1000 as well

Trying to compensate now, will add roughly 300 packs this month with vouchers and then sink my SPS in it after till the packs are gone

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I'm after another 1000 in R2 - I think it's worth it! I've hit on the strategy of selling off everything but the best cards I get to pay for more packs.

I'm sure the prices are coming down - after general release. And I know I'm buying enough packs in the GS to max out most of what I want anyway.

It's just all a bit more time consuming than I'd like, but silly not too spend time on it now!

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just send you a discord friend invite, the spam messages are getting out of hand here, guess it was the same for you

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not bad. I opened 400 and got a net profit of around $2.5K at today's money. hope you do well.

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