How I decide what cards I should rent/buy

First step: do I upgrade my strongest splinter?

My strongest cards in the Splinterlands crypto game are from the Earth Splinter, so should I even bother upgrade it further? I've decided the answer is yes, because once I reach a certain rating where I compete with other players who own or have rented level 6 summoners, I cannot rely on my other splinters for a victory.

Although a streak of bad luck might come into play when I get a load of matches where the Earth Splinter isn't available, I can use it most of the time. That means I only need a good luck streak to make the best of my strongest Monsters. Good luck streaks are more important than the bad ones, because win streaks ramp up earned SPS by a ton. Still, if I don't have good enough Monsters ready, I cannot seize this lucky opportunity.

Which Monsters should I buy/rent?

How can I decide what Monsters I should continuously rent? My research comes from guild brawls. While I'm helping my guild fight the good fight, I rent at least 500 credits worth of higher level cards so I stand a chance at winning my brawls - which have been very hard lately, since we, Guardians of Glory, upgraded our Arena to level 5. From my ranked and brawl history, I can point out Monsters I don't own that made an impact.

Of course, I'll buy them if I can, but high value Legendary Monsters and cards from older editions are out of my budget. Setting up a rental bid for older cards and slowly purchase the best cards from the current expansions are my goals. Let's analyze Tree Elemental a bit together so you can see how I differentiate the good cards from the bad ones.

Earth Elemental example

First up, a match where I use Earth Elemental. It's a huge part of my team since it's a 13 Mana match. If you watch it until the end, you'll think it was somewhat useless. However, if my opponent's tank was higher level, I wouldn't have gotten past it quickly enough.

So, it's useful at my current rating, but is it actually a good card? The real problem with Earth Elemental is its slow speed and the fact it targets the enemy's frontliner. Good opponents want me to target it, so why would I want a card that cannot bypass their tank? By looking at this other match, we can see the problem I'm talking about. Earth Elemental cannot hit Pelacor Conjurer. I don't get any damage done, so I lose.

Altough Earth Elemental is strong in the Heavy Hitters rule where slow Monsters go first, this isn't something I'd pick often, specially when I already own 3 Mana Monsters that do a much better job at tanking and dealing meaningful damage: Venari Scout and Djinn Biljka. So I'm not going to rent Earth Elemental.

I'll do this process for a bunch of different cards until I find the top three Monsters of immediate importance I want in my roster. Found this useful? It's a lengthy, but successful process.


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Obrigado por promover a comunidade Hive-BR em suas postagens.

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I rent at least 500 credits worth of higher level cards

Do you think in long term vision too it is better to rent cards and play instead of buying them out ?

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I think buying cards that are currently being distributed is better than renting them. But you should rent some if you can't buy them yet.

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Got it . After looking at latest dalz report , I was wondering why so many people are renting cards so the question .

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I think if you just play and earn reward then renting card is the better option.
But if you consider a longer term, then buying a card is better. And you can focus to buy the summoner cards because everyone needs summoner cards to play.
If you don't have a monster card, you still can fight with another alternative one :)

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Makes sense . P2E vs Investment , a good topic to talk about .

I used to play splinterlands in early days but then drifted off it and focused more on development on Hive . I think I should get back into it .

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Because renting is much cheaper. Also, they're afraid of losing money in long-term purchases. Which is why they'll miss out, as already proven by Untamed.

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I have come to understand that renting is much cheaper with it comes to cards.

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