The Old Switch-A-Roo

in #splintertalk3 years ago

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I've been going over my card collection over the past few days...

Like I mentioned yesterday, I traded a bunch of cards I had and flipped it for Plado Emberstorm.

A decision I'm VERY happy with, because it was my first Beta Legendary card.

But now I'm caught between a rock and a hard place...

I started buying Gold Foil Legendary cards in early 2021. And the most I ever spent on one was about $250 for an Almo Cambio like a month and a half ago...

Fast forward and that same Almo, is the cheapest GFL on the market...For $818

Safe to say, the GFL market has sky rocketed but I still wanna stack these cards. And one of the main reasons is this...

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The burn rate for GFL's is 50,000 DEC

That's a whole lot of DEC air drop points for SPS every day!

But again, GFL's are priced so high I had to find another way to add gold cards that had high DEC burn rates.

Enter....

The Gold Foil Epics!!

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While still a sizeable price tag, GFE's are what the price of GFL's were a few months ago. So today I did the old 'switch-a-roo' and sold off a bunch of Gold Commons that I had plenty of and grabbed these two beauties...

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Nothing out of pocket, as it was all profit from the selling of gold commons but here's the crazy math I just discovered.

I sold 18 gold foil commons, and each burn rate for the card was 500 DEC. Total of 900 DEC.

With the profits of the card sales, I bought these 2 golf foil epics and each of them has....

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Just one of these cards, is worth more DEC than the 18 I just sold but I got 2 goil foil epics...So that means I've added 11,000 DEC to my SPS air drop tomorrow. (20,000 DEC - 9000 DEC)

Not bad at all!

But also, I believe the market for Epics, while it'll never be the Legedary market, is poised for big growth.

Can we see gold foil epic cards in a few months, reach the price of legendaries?

Or will it all go back to like it was in early 2021?

Regardless...I'm still stacking!!

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I feel like I'm constantly falling further and further behind the SPS stacking. Each day I'm getting less and less because super smart dudes like you are figuring out how to maximize. Well done!

I honestly don't have many gold foil cards at all... I really regret not getting more when I was cashing out of Steem and spending it on Splinterlands.

I dunno what made me think about Splinterlands late last year and early this year, and it's most definitely not because I have high intelligence LOLOL

I think we can still stack SPS in multiple ways, just need to be creative. And for me, SPT and looking at different cards is working out.

Yeah, I personally am just not really keen to sell any of my cards until I know what the Land expansion is looking like... no idea if that's smart or dumb.. haha.

SPT is definitely a good way. I'm not sure if buying it is the way to go personally... since it's around half the price of DEC but only counts for 0.25 SPS airdrop points as opposed to 1:1 for DEC... but earning it with Splinterland posts is ABSOLUTELY the way to go!

SPT does have the benefit of staking... which produces more SPT... so maybe it is the smarter play long term.

LOL Guess the secrets not a secret anymore...SPT to the moon? LOL

Hahahaha! I just saw your SPT stash... you're gonna be riding lambos to the moon at this rate...

OMG... I just saw that SPT is the same price as DEC at the moment. I did not see that coming.

I just did smth weird. I upvoted Sprinterlands content.
Which normally I never do.... 🙂

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