I just burned 340,000 Grain (7,400 DEC) and $5 (8250 DEC) worth of Chaos Legion cards - and all I got from that is this:
All? That could be something quite nice! But let's start from the beginning.
Land Cards
They're finally here, bringing an interesting new twist to Splinterlands - and a sink for resources. How big of a sink, that I will explore in a highly math-focused post on another day. For now, it's about how I approached my land cards.
Step one - where to start?
Beaker's Land Tool (BLT), of course. If you already own land are using it, you might be eligible to some cards. Type your username in the "Player Overview" field in the BLT and then click "Dashboard". Scrolling down a little, you'll get this:
I'm eligible for 17 commons, 3 rares and 1 epic - but I don't produce Aura, so forget about the epic. I started with the common. You can calculate at free will with the override. So, as you can see, for the commons I need 6.38k Cinder. Cinder is gained by burning cards. 1 Collection power (CP) equals 1.5 Cinder.
Means - I have to burn cards. Oh, my beautiful collection! Never! So, let's go to the market and see what we've got.
Step 2 - Planning Card buys
Chaos Legion is the cheapest, as we know. I punched the data into my excel, added a few calculations, and here you go:
I added a $/CP for maxed cards in the end, as the CP gets a 5% bonus as soon as the card is maxed out. As you can easily see, Rare RF, Epic RF and Legendary RF are the cheapest to use. Common GF only when maxed.
I then went on to see what would be the best configuration for me:
This one is quite a bit of adjustment, rounding up and down. I burned a little here and there before I started the calculation, and only needed around 6k more Cinder, so I went for the Epic RF.
Step 3: Burn, baby, burn
Somebody else seems to be making the same calculations, as my purchase of a nice chunk of Djinn Renova failed. Now I have 20 of those lying around without purpose... But Uraeus worked out. It's great that it isn't bound to a certain splinter, but just general CP.
In the burning option, I can now choose between DEC and Cinder. 1 maxed Uraeus gave me a beautiful 7,245 of that, for $4,96. That would've been enough for all 17 commons, which is great for further calculations.
Step 4: Craft, baby, craft!
Look at those beautiful stats of a maxed farmhand! Currently valued at $1.35 each CC, fluctuation heavily. Man, I'm looking forward to calculating the current intrinsic values of those cards! That's going to be SO complicated!
Anyway, you find the menu in "Land -> Artisan Quarter". I produced the 12 cards that I still had left.
So cool. Now, where are those cards? I don't want to go through all my collection for this one! No worries, there's obviously a shortcut - called "Eternals". What an awesome name! Gladiators are there, too, so in order to just see the farm cards, de-select that one.
Results
Of course, I immediately upgraded mine to level 3, where the Farmhand gets 2 new abilities and a raise in Grain production.
Bountiful Grain: +5% production when working on a grain plot.
Energized: This card acts as a power core on the plot it's on!
Rationing: -10% Grain needed to harvest.
Those bonuses go up with every level, and there are even 2 more abilities that the Farmhand gets. What an impressive card! Let's do some cost calulcation quickly:
$4.96 in cards = 8,250 DEC
340,000 Grain = 7,400 DEC
Total: 15,650 DEC of 17 CC = 920 DEC per CC
Current Price: 2140 DEC per CC (fluctuating like crazy!)
Will I use it?
Not yet. For one, not enough PP to make it worth it - in my mind, I'll have to calculate the profits first. Second - expensive! I'll wait for prices to go down. And I have to calculate if it makes sense. Even if I had enough resources and options to mint, it would still cost me 368,000 DEC to get a maxed card - that's currently $250. For that, I can buy and set up several whole plots.
And that's why I love to calculate! Math puts things into perspective.
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Former posts:
Calculating Land part 1 - How to get your ROI
Calculating Land part 2 - Are pools worth it?
Calculating Land part 3 - Organic Growth
Land Plot Efficiency for non-whales
Card-Production-Coefficient - Combining LPE and ROI
Renting for Land - at what cost?
Risks to my strategy
What do refined resources cost?
Real cost of Wagons
Calculating Totem and Title boosts
Calculating Plot Rarity Boost
Setting up a Rare Stone Plot
My perfect plot - Conclusion of my calculations
Thank you very much for reading, I hope you enjoyed it at least as much as I enjoyed writing :-D If you have any comments or feedback - please let me know! And don't forget to leave your own posts for me to curate. Thank you very much!
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