This is an interesting scenario that I am testing it out.

It has been a while since I started playing Splinterlands and often times, other than battles, people kept asking me to burn off cards that I do not need into DEC in order to get potion boosters (and even getting cards in DEC from the market)

The question in my mind was, wait... I still haven't really able to learn all the abilities of the cards, checking their combinations to see whether they are useful or not, and you are asking me to burn them?

I guess any new player who has the mind to test out the game instead of treating it as an investment would have thought this would be the choice... right?

So I thought of a strategy... how about exchanging Steem to DEC in Steem Engine?

I think at this point of time, moving steem into Steem engine would just be losing 1% of my fee, further more the DEC exchange might be more expensive; so in order to get steem pegged without losing any unnecessary conversion fee, I got to source out whoever has excess steem peg and does not want to loose the 1% fee while converting out.

And then, the idea came when I realise that @gtpjfoodbank could be available if there were extra tokens that can be exchanged into Steem pegged and then I can just give them the liquidated steem outside the steem engine instead.

full explanation can be read at this post

And here it is, I got some STEEM pegged in my steem-engine without the deposit and withdrawal hassle, and off I went to get some DEC, even though I am seeing that its price is going up still.

Usually as investors / exchangers they will always wait for buy low sell high method to gain more tokens they need; but since I am actually testing to see if there are any fees occurred during this transition from steem-engine to my splinterland account, I guess it is as good as a proper test; regardless of the exchange rate

(because I am not here for quick profit)

So off I go, now having 9 cents worth of DEC ....

Oops... the interesting part is that if I use the liquidated steem outside the steem engine I think the exchange rate is the same as the steem-pegged vs DEC; the only difference is that if steem was transferred into steem-engine first there is a fee incurred.

Updated: @khimgoh found out that there's a 5% conversion fee from liquidated STEEM (in our accounts) to Steem Engine's DEC. So it is totally a NO GO for me.

And looking at the chart if I just transfer from steem-engine to the splinterland wallet, there should not be any losing of DEC along the way...

Yep. None were lost.

Verdict?

• Yay, if you want to be an assistance to people who has steem-pegged quantity and wanted the liquidated steem / steem power without going through the lost of 1%
  (because for some, every penny counts)

• Nay, if you want it quick. You can just directly exchange from liquidated steem to DEC immediately without so many hassling steps especially when you are in a hurry.

Overall, it was a good experiment and a good deed done for a non-profit charitable organisation. Even with those extra steps and a bit of waste of time it is still worth it because their pennies are far much valuable than we usually take for granted.

Unfortunately I still do not have enough to get an upgrade with the DECs I have. Guess I just need to commit to more battles (and win them) for more DEC collections.