Splinterland Card Price Spikes due to Ranked Reward Changes

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I will not be going into details of all the changes in the new Ranked Reward changes in this post so if you are looking for those details you can find them in the Splinterlands post:

https://peakd.com/splinterlands/@splinterlands/splinterlands-ranked-rewards-update

The Ranked Reward changes that go into effect after the current season is complete will improve rewards for real players and reduce rewards for bots and players that have not invested very much in the game.

Joined Between Untamed and Chaos Legion

Since I started playing Splinterlands after all the Untamed packs were sold out and funds were tight, I did not purchase very many untamed cards. I have been focusing on the reward and chaos legion cards since those are the ones that I can get from loot chests and packs available on the open market.

Upon reading the changes to the ranked rewards, I was at first very excited about the changes. I was glad to see these changes being made so that the rewards will increase for those actually manually playing the game instead of those bots.

So I started the process to ensure I was ready for the changes.

Reduced Rewards for Using Standard Cards

The largest item that I noticed that would impact me was the change where using a standard card in your lineup would result in a haircut in your earned rewards. Basically, if you use any of the standard cards that you do not own or rent, your rewards will be reduced.

So I started to check out which cards I was using in my lineups. I noticed that I use a lot of the standard cards.

stardard cards untamed.PNG

You can tell which cards are standard by selecting the "Edition", "Rarity" and "Payable" on the cards menu. Since I know I do not have very many Untamed cards, I wanted to look at which Unteamed standard cards I was playing with.

menu for standard cards.PNG

Untamed Card Market

I pulled up the market for the Fire Splinter Untamed cards so that I could see what I would need to plan to spend. I use Living Lava in most of my Fire Splinter lineups. Appears there are over 50 cards available for sale.

Price spike for untamed lvl 1 cards.PNG

I pull up the cards on the market and notice there are no level 1 on the first page. The cheapest $/BCX is for a level 8 at $3.22/BCX.

Living Lava no lvl 1.PNG

The first level one for sale I had to scroll down a lot to find. It is listed for $10.53/BCX. This implies that no one wants to sell their level 1 cards or others have already bought the lowest priced ones available due to the reward changes.
Living Lava scrolled down for level 1 cards on market.PNG

Price Spike

I thought the pricing seemed to be a bit off for the level 1 cards compared to the higher level cards so I did a little research regarding the cards price history.

As you can see from this chart there has been an increase in sales of the Living Lava card which coincides with the announcement of the Ranked Reward announcement.

living Lava regular foil.PNG

The low BCX price of $3.22 is 69.4% below the low card price of $10.53. That is a big difference which is driven by supply vs demand.

Regular foil card price.PNG

Rental Prices

Due to these price spikes in cards I will need to own or rent for playing so that I can get closer to full rewards. I will need to save a lot of funds before I can purchase the cards. In the mean time, I will just need to rent the cards to fill in the missing cards I will need prior to the start of the new season around June 1st.

The rental market does not appear to have been impacted yet however when everyone finds they are not able to purchase the cards for a reasonable price, they will rent them which will drive up the rental prices.

Rental price Living lava.PNG


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Thanks for sharing!

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I know this might sound crazy but I think you should go for the gold foil as right now it's cheaper
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That is what I was thinking as well. Plus more collection power for next league up.

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Definitely going to be a lot more thought put into collections (in general). As you mentioned, I'd expect both rental and purchase prices of 'Ghost Cards' increase because of demand. Sharing this on https://twitter.com/PraetoriaDigest.

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That is the truth. I am starting to take closer looks at which cards are exchangeable between the Chaos and Untamed cards instead of buying both. Thanks for the comment. Take care.

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