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Front cover image of post is an image worth a thousand words for how I play Splinterlands. I hope not to have to write a thousand words in this post. My goal of this post is to bring to light how although I have been playing this game for years I am still performing poorly in the game, but for good reason.

<h3>Rate of Returns on Investments</h3>

When I first started playing Splinterlands I was investing Steem in the game. I purchased cards and increasingly adding to my collection multiple rare cards. Along the way I started collecting max cards to be competitive in battles. On top of all that I started a rewards gold foil collection, excluding the gold foil legends rewards lol. I have zero gold foil legends for that matter.

Over time I was heavily invested in Splitnerlands relative to what other crypto investments I had including my hive account. In fact for most of 2020 I was barely over 1k of hive power. Only until the later half of 2020 did I start investing more toward hive rather than all in Splinterlands. This was mainly due to the higher prices of Splinterlands cards.

As cards' prices appreciated I began to find ways to leverage my Splinterlands assets to earn more crypto. One of those ways is through renting out my cards. By renting out my cards I could earn a daily passive income. <b>Over the course of a couple of seasons I learn that renting out cards much more lucrative than simply playing.</b>

Greed got the best of me and multiple cards that allowed to rent was basically limiting my choices of summoners/monsters to use due mainly because I rent out most of the cards. This leads me open when it comes to battles since I may not have the monster to play even though I own it and rent it out.  For me it was a no brainier.

While I have majority of my card collection rented out. I am early over 4k DEC which I do not often get just by winning battles on a daily basis.  So instead of holding a majority of my cards with little to never played before I went and decided to simply play battles to the best of my abilities. While in the same time play battles with the limited resource I had.

The end goal was to leverage Splinterlands to let me earn more assets.  I made the sacrifice of having a strong deck only to rent out majority of them for DEC.  In turn I can spend the DEC for all kinds of assets and recently I have converted my DEC earns to hive power.  I have gradually grew my hive account and connected with many other hivers. All in all I basically now have slightly over 20k Hives.  

<h3>Concluions</h3>

I am losing more than winning is mainly because I rent too many cards that it sabotages my chance to win battles for the sake of earning a little more DEC.  

Some people prefer to earn more passive incomes while others want to play to stay competitive.  I chose the former as I want to continue to benefit with the earned DEC.  The end result for me is lower rewards and DEC/battle win.  On the flip side I am earning likely 4x the amount if I had simply left the cards for use in battles.

<a href="https://docs.splinterlands.com/cards/sets-editions/promo">Splinterlands' White Paper on Promo Cards</a>

Until next time thanks for reading!!!

If you are interested to learn more about Splinterlands please go through some of my other posts. Order is from newest to oldest posts:

<a href="https://ecency.com/hive-13323/@mawit07/splinterlands-everything-about-dark-energy">Everything About Dark Energy</a>

<a href="https://ecency.com/hive-13323/@mawit07/splinterlands-all-you-want-to">All You Want To Know About Reward Chests</a>

<a href="https://ecency.com/hive-13323/@mawit07/splinterlands-sps-white-paper-cliff">SPS White Paper Cliff Notes</a>

<a href="https://ecency.com/hive-13323/@mawit07/splinterlands-helpful-links-for-new">Helpful Links for New and Veteran Players</a>

<a href="https://ecency.com/hive-13323/@mawit07/splinterlands-good-cards-to-own">Splinterlands Good Cards To Own</a>

<a href="https://ecency.com/hive-13323/@mawit07/splinterlands-rentals-a-perspective-from">Splinterlands Rentals from a Lender Perspective</a>

<i>I have plenty of other cards for rent! Just go on peakmonsters and check out the market place and if you are curious what I offer here is a link:</i>

<a href="https://peakmonsters.com/@mawit07/cards">mawit07 rentals</a>

<h3>If You have yet to take part in playing this great game called Splinterlands please click on my <a href="https://steemmonsters.com?ref=mawit07">referral link</a>.  It is free but in order to earn real assets such as cards and token you would have to invest in a starter deck or purchase game cards.  Join the <a href="https://discord.gg/ZPdUpszf">discord</a> to learn more.  Good luck!</h3>

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