All the new cards are making things messy.

The game has gotten very messy lately in a lot of ways for all of it's long term players.

The first part is the rental market which has turned into a total mess since the new cards launched combined with the lower leagues being nuked when they were gaining momentum.

The game is still growing nicely and the number 1 playtoearn game on the market but we have hit a dip since they removed rewards from the lower leagues. So many new users are posting their daily quest returns of 3 credits and it's sad to see.

They are not happy and i wouldn't be happy.

I know that it's a business and not a charity but they will be slow to put their money into the game unless it is fun or profitable to play. Aggroed has done a great job to date but i think that he has made a mistake with this one as these were the players driving the rental market and funneling money up the chain to the larger accounts.

Sure we are back to earning more DEC per win at the higher ranks but that doesn't help the economy to grow as the smaller users were putting their DEC back into the game and keeping the prices high through rentals and purchases where as the larger accounts have a lot more incentive to cash it out.

Personally I would rather earn a little less form every battle if it meant DEC rewards for the lower leagues again. They still weren't earning much but at least they could see a way up the ranks and building stronger decks.

Chaos is the right name for the new cards.

Because chaos is what they have caused.

Dropping 60 million new cards onto a small userbase was always going to affect the rental market but i didn't expect it to be this much. We have only sold the first 1m packets and the whole system has collapsed.

My rentals have dropped 80% since last season and we have another 14m packs to go.

That's killing the card prices as the old ones have lost their value now that there are so many newer cheaper replacements. This won last forever if we can keep growing the userbase as the new supply will be soaked up over time.

I still expect the new packs to be bought up very fast and tank the prices of the new cards way way down. That is what happened every other time as people rebalanced their decks and sold extra cards to buy even more packs.

For me this will be a time to reinvest into the game and stock up on lots of cheap cards. The rental market has been good to me for the past few months as i had a lot of gold single cards from the earlier versions and they were highly in demand.

I think that land will have a massive effect on the game form the few teasers that i have seen so far and that it will involve some form of staking cards to the land to earn spells.

I'm hoping that this will take a lot of the current rental stock off the markets as the biggest card holders will likely be the biggest land owners too. It might work by collection power and splinter type to mine so much spell of a certain period of time. Something like that anyway but it will need lots of cards to work the land and this will help the situation.

I have been buying all the way along with my rental income and will keep doing so as long as it is profitable.

As soon as the general sale launches will also go for 1-2k new packs and try to max out some new cards.

Dividing up my cards.

In anticipation of all these new cards and since my rentals have all dried up it's probably a good time to reshuffle the deck.

I'm finding it hard to keep track of so many cards at the moment so i will try to condense up the work a lot buy selling off the lower ones and setting up three separate accounts for the game.

I will see if i can make some profit from playing the game even more and increasing my rewards compared to renting out so many of my extra cards instead.

• Main deck, aiming to play at champion level.

• Secondary deck, aiming to play at gold level.

• Rental deck to earn funds to buy more cards.

• Take all rentals off the market.

• Sell off the single / low value ones.

• Send level 4/4 to secondary deck.

• Send gold / extra cards to rental deck.

The aim is still to build up to 10k in daily rental income through my extra deck that is focused solely on the rental market. This will make it easier to adjust prices and to keep on top of it. I will keep buying and selling as the market changes to reduce the amount of cards that i have here while buying up higher value ones for when land launches and people will need maxed and gold cards for reward farming.

My main deck will be for my highest cards and my main gold cards to play the leagues, tournaments and brawls. i have not entered enough tournaments so far but they can be very profitable with a good deck. It's time to step up my game and get competitive at the highest levels.

The secondary deck is to make use of my other cards. With the prices dropping so low i want to see what i can earn with a solid deck or reward cards and a few older cards at level 4/5. If i can get it to gold leagues i think that the rewards might be worth keeping them off the rental market. For now at least.

I can't predict the future.

I don't think any of us can but for me splinterlands is still the best game on the market with a solid community behind it. I hope that we can hit another wave of momentum when general sale launches and we get some more fresh blood.

I wouldn't be happy with the current rewards system, especially at the lower leagues as it doesn't incentivize growth but land really excites me going forward. This is the time to sort through everything and double down for the future.

Get ready for the next leg of this exciting journey. It's all about the long term game and holding the dips. The team has a great vision and strong fundamentals which gives me a lot of hope going forward.

https://splinterlands.com?ref=niallon11 to get playing

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