Splinterlands - End of the season rewards got me on a shopping spree

By Behiver | behiver | 1 Nov 2024

The end of the season came early in Splinterlands and with that some rewards were dropped for the forceful players that I've thrown into battles. I was quite consistent during this season and climbed the ranking from Gold I to Diamond I and I've succeeded to grab some rewards chests along the way (for crossing levels) and in the end to gather a bunch of Glink tokens. In total with the Glint earns from battled during the season and with the ones granted at the end, I have surpassed 120,000 Glint tokens. And guess what I did next? You are right, I went on a shopping spree in the Glint Shop. So let's see what goodies I got there and what my buying strategy was.

My shopping strategy

While we have now the possibility to use Glint and buy directly Gold Foil Rarity Draws, I still find them a little bit too pricey for my taste. Because of that I am continuing my strategy to buy Normal Rarity Draws where I also have chanced for Gold Foils. My way of doing things is each season to buy with Glint all the Draws that I can that are part of Batch 1, thus having the lowest cost. I will be buying first Common Draw, then will go with Rare Draw, following by Epic Draw and Legendary Draw. Usually I don't gather enough Glint to buy all of the types by I usually deplete the Batch 1 for Common and Rare Draws and also buy some of the Epic Draws. The ideas is to get to maximize the cards from these rarities. Once that is achieved I can move to Gold Foils.

Batch 1 - Common Draw chests

With the generous Glint that I have I went and bought all the Common Draw chests from Batch 1. That summed it up to 400 cards at a cost of 150 Glint each, thus 60,000 Glint in total. Out of the 400 cards I was lucky enough and got 16 Gold Foils. If I would have bought Gold Foils Draw chests those 16 cards would have costed me 56,000 Glint. Thus, I believe that going with the Common Draw chests was a good option as that paid for it almost entirely with the Gold Foils that I got.

Batch 1 - Rare Draw chests

With the leftover Glint that I had, I could afford also 84 Rare Draw chests from Batch 1. That summed it up to 84 cards at a cost of 750 Glint each, thus 63,000 Glint in total. Out of the 84 cards I wasn't as lucky as before and I got only 1 Gold Foil. That's is at a cost of 15,000 Glint thus the entire amount spent wasn't quite balanced by that. But it is still a good draw whenever a Gold Foil is revealed.

Another season, another fight

Now another season has started and the fight continues. Will I change my strategy? Not until I achieve my goals of maximizing the regular cards. At least if I can succeed to do that on common cards, I will be able to move afterwards to better rarities. But nevertheless the progress motivates me to keep on going using this strategy. And once I max some cards, I will be able to burn the additional ones and try to get missing cards and maximize them as well. It will not happen overnight, but with consistency and persistency I will get there.

Going on a shopping spree in Splinterlands Glint Shopping always gives a great feeling and I think the excitement from it stays few days in the air. It is quite important to keep players coming back in the game and I think on this the team found a good recipe. Thus for me it remains to keep on going, fight the good fight and try to maximize all the rewards cards one at a time.