Increase your collection power and make profit

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Splinterlands market is VERY complicated and also quite simple to navigate. To get ahead, you have to be willing to make some sacrifices along the way to ensure that you grow.

If you participate in Ranked battles and you have a deck that crosses its current threshold but a collection power that doesn't then there's an opportunity to use some creative trading techniques to increase your collection power and still have some profit at the end of the day.

One thing you have to note about the Splinterlands market is that scarcity is the order of the day. You also have to keep in mind that while one monster may not be fancy now, it has potential for the future.

For example, when I started playing Splinterlands, I took note of Serpentine Spy of the untamed collection and predicted that it would be one of the most prominent monsters of its grade.

I even published a video of Serpie in battle and shared it on Twitter roughly two years ago. I knew it in my gut that this monster would be a huge success and my hunch was correct.

Right now, a single unit of Serpentine spy costs $3 and that's incredible for a common monster. However, it was literally written in the stars because this monster's abilities stood out.

Right now, there are still monsters that stand out and are set for future pumps. However, you have to ignore the noise and focus on their abilities to observe them.

Collection Power

The thing about increasing your collection power is that you have to be willing to be flexible if you want to increase it.

Growing your collection power is completely different from rising up the ranks because your battling capacity doesn't translate to an increase to increase in collection power.

For example, if you're upgrading monsters in your deck, your collection ower might not rise as fast as if you sell a certain gold foil monster for another. However, as I said, you have to vary your battle capacity with the assets on hand to ensure you make the right choice.

My deck as an example

Let's look at it from this angle; right now, I have a deck with a collection power that enables me to battle in Gold 1 league. However, this doesn't mean that I can just simply stroll into Gold 1.

At the moment, I'm struggling in Gold 2 and while I will most likely squeeze into Gold 1, I can't say that Gold 1 is my level. This means that my priority should be about upgrading the monsters in my deck and upgrading my ranked battle capacity.

However, assuming I wanted to increase my collection power, I could still achieve it through making some trading decisions. All of it revolves around manipulating gold foils to my favour.

Gold foils

I spend a lot of time on the Splinterlands market, trying to vary prices with abilites and generally trying to make sense of what is and what isn't.

I've already established that scarcity matters, as in the case with Dr Blight, Halfling Alchemist and many other promo cards but there's also perception.

Perception also translates into the golf foil market and this is the brunt of this publication.

Looking at my deck right now, I see some simple routes that I could increase my collection power without remotely even denting my battle capacity and these opportunities are in your deck, only if you actually decide to look at it.

Comparing the two monsters in the picture above, you can see that Qid Yuff costs $49 and that adds 2k Collection power. yet, there's a Zenith Archer that costs $3.19 and adds 500 Collection power.

So assuming I sell my Gold foil Qid Yuff for $49 and then buy 10 Gold foil Xenith archer, I'd have removed 2k Collection power and added 5K collection power. I'd also still have about $17 worth of DEC in my wallet after this transaction.

So, in essence, I'll have swapped one monster for another, increased my collection power and still have some cutback that I could use to improve my deck. This is just one example by the way. There are many other opportunities like this one to look into.

In summary

Well, it is as I said at the beginning of the post, something has to give. You have to be willing to sacrifice one thing for the other.

The Splinterlands marketplace is constantly evolving, so you might have to make some concessions to get ahead. You might have to sell one monster to buy another but it all depends on your requirements.

If you believe that you can battle in higher leagues, and you have a gold foil monster in demand, then you might have to sell it for a gold foil monster that isn't in demand AT THE MOMENT.

You have to note that scarcity, demand, and supply all play a major role in determining market perception. You also have to note that it is pretty much the same with abilities in the game.

In any case, growing your collection power might require selling one monster to buy another and in the process, you could squeeze out profit to upgrade other monsters.

I'm definitely going to be making such trades in the coming days. You have to decide if you want to make the decision based on the deck at your disposal of course.

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I see collection power as a very important factor to level up.

Just started playing again and I'm planning on buying cards that would increase my collection power to get to bronze It seems I'll have to buy some Zenith Archer to do that. Thanks for the tip😊.

Cards are way cheaper right now, better to seize that opportunity before it slips.

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