Introduction
Hello there! @Saydie here, playing Splinterlands everyday!
For this post, I will not talk about card reviews or battle strategies, but I want to talk about my first year not only on Splinterlands but also on HIVE. Few days ago, I got a notification from 
TGC Background
Outside of Splinterlands I'm an avid fan of the Trading Card Game called YU-Gi-Oh! which have an Anime that if I remembered right I first watched around 2008 during my Elementary School days. I used to collect cards together with my friends, compiled it on a customized photo book and have a bragging competition about the cards that we pulled on packs. We also played some battles with the cards we have but what gameplay would you expect from children does not even reach teenage hood. It was not until I graduated Elementary that I really started to learn how to play the game when my Mom return from overseas and gives me a Playstation 1 together with some games which includes Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories, which was based on the Anime with both Single and Multiplayer modes that me and my friends enjoy then many more YU-Gi-Oh! games have been release on different platforms which for some time, we keep on playing but as we grow old and due to the increasing priorities, many of my old friends and I started to distance on playing this games. The last game that I played was Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V Tag Force Special which is playable from PSP but I am playing it on my Smartphone using an emulator and that was like 2017 but without anyone to talk play with or talk to, I started to lose interest with the game. However, I still have some of my card collections displayed in my old room.
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Some of my card collection. (Forgive the the bad photography.)
Then the pandemic starts and due to restrictions and lockdowns, I got a lot of time in my shoulders and this is were I learned about Splinterlands from a local site forum. I was actually looking for an alternative for Axie Infinity that during that time has so much hype but also cost a fortune before you can start then I come across the NFT Trading Card Game called Splinterlands under the Hive Blockchain. After watching some Youtube videos, I tried creating an account and my passion for Trading Card Game has been lit again and has been playing for a year now.
My Collections and Assets
At first, I started with only 1 account which during that time, can just jump into the game and earn Dark Energy Crystals or DEC and Reward Cards just by playing the game with only starter cards which during that time has like 10x from it's current value compared today so when I reached the ROI for my first account, I used it to create another account which I think was around a month after the creation of my first account. Then around February of this year, I was able to join an event called Crypto Carnival which I saw advertised by 
On terms of packs, during the presale, I bought 10 Chaos Legion packs using credits because it was way cheaper during that time then since I started blogging, I bought another 10 packs from the secondary market. The rest of the packs that I opened came from continuously grinding with my 4 accounts through the daily and season chest and I think I have opened more or less 200 packs for the Chaos Legion. When it was the time for the Riftwatchers presale, I also bought 15 pack by which I pulled an Gold Foil Runemancer Florre which I sold and use to buy another 15 packs from the secondary market.
I also bought individual cards on the secondary market to fill the cards I lack whether I don't have the card yet or I'm missing some BCX to level them up. I also used the bidding system to get them for cheaper price. As I checked my accounts, I have spent a total of $ 254.00 on the secondary market.
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All in all I have a total of 211,070 collection power with the price of $ 606.020 which is enough to reach Diamond 1 for modern and Gold 1 for wild format but utility wise, my deck only has bronze cap Chaos Legion and Riftwatchers cards and some bronze cap - max level reward cards. You may think that this price were very small considering the amount of investment that I poured into the game but we know that the market price of many cards have been in decline during the past year so the price of many of the cards I bought previously, were actually higher compared to their price right now.
My Influences
Just like many others that entered the game for the first time, I have close to zero knowledge about the game so in order to learn more about the game, I watched tutorials on Youtube. Some of the people that I watched were 
Balthazar Scholarship
Eight months ago, I saw a video from 
As time goes by, we keep on playing our scholar accounts but not many has stayed for long until we were finally given max level Chaos Legion accounts. There were a total of 30 people who were granted with a max level Chaos Legion accounts that were given which cost for more than $ 5000.00 for each account and one of them is 
Blogging
Another earning opportunity that Splinterlands has opened to me is through blogging. By submitting my social media and weekly media challenges, I can get cryptocurrency as my payment from Splinterlands. It was another influence by
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Final Considerations
As we are still on the bear market, the value of the Splintershards or SPS is continuously getting lower and reaching out the peg value for DEC is still out of sight together with other big events on the Crypto World that continue to affects all the cryptocurrency. It even cause for the company to laid of 45% of their work force to ensure that they can sustain the game until the next bull run. Even so, I still believed that the game will last as the team will be able to survive this trials and when they do, I want to be there that is why I do not see my self exiting the game anytime as I still find the game fun and I am exited for what changes the team will bring to us.
If you reach until here then thank you.
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