Good morning Praetorians - or as I like to say "Splinterlandians"!
Good morning to all the Hivers out there as well 😃
Rebellion and Land 1.5 are in full swing in Splinterlands and it is definitely shaking up the economy!! A new paradigm is being developed as things continue to shake out.
It do be like that sometimes...
Unfortunately, there hasn't been much activity in the Land of Praetoria... Which I'm guessing has to do with Holidays 😄... Speaking of which - since I probably won't be back on here again before this evening...
Here's to an amazing 2024!
When I woke up today, I really wasn't expecting to see much activity on the Land frontier... BUT I WAS WRONG!!
There really hasn't been much activity since my last update, 10 days ago:
@captaindingus/splinterlands-land-update-ep3--land-market-and-rental-market-report-122123
However, we have had a number of Plots in Shadowvale (R138) that were Claimed and Surveyed...
If you look in the previous post, the next available plot was T10 P64... Today I checked and saw we were up to T10 P83 as our "next available plot"
Let's go see what has been uncovered before we get to the REALLY exciting news!!
Coming to you live from Shadowvale: CaptainDingus
"Thanks Me, I appreciate you today and hope you've been well - I know you have... Now let's check out the newest developments in Shadowvale!"
The first thing I'd like to point out is 
Now for the latest NEW developments since T10 Plot 63, let's go take a look!
Errhem... Apologies... Wrong clip... Let's try that again...
If you remember from the last update, 
Join me as we go into the field to see if any new incredible discoveries have been made!!! I want to see them for myself and congratulate their owners, personally 😃
WOAH!! Check it out - Plot 64 is another Rare Natural Mountain but this one is owned by my personal friend and guildmate:
Congrats buddy, I'm glad you and I are neighbors in this Region!!
Driving by we can see another plot of his, literally one plot over from my lil ol' Grain Farm and then we come to HOLY MOLY - DO YOU FEEL THAT???? That... TINGLY sensation?!?! That can only mean one thing... Magic... LOTS of Magic is in the air!!
Ahhhh... THERE it is!!
Congrats to 
I mean... I can only assume... as I wouldn't actually KNOW 😭
Splendid... truly splendid. As we continue our tour of the newly surveyed Plots in Tract 10 of Shadowvale... I notice our next plot is absolutely INFESTED... with the most ridiculously terrifying assortment of nightmare hellspawn imaginable... I am just going to keep driving and observe 
After we clear that haunting scene we emerge onto a windy mountain road and see that 
Up next we have another Common Mountain - Occupied at Plot 70 and these things are so hideous, I'm not even slowing down to take a picture but uh... great job 
Plot 72 is a Common Mountain Magic [Life] and then we have some Natty Commons but interestingly we see a swath of unsurveyed Plots owned by 
That covers our latest Plot developments in Shadowvale - man... there were a LOT of cool Plots! Epic Magic, some Occupied and Rares... that's awesome and great job to those who uncovered them!!
While that's quite a bit of land uncovered... you may not have noticed the EVEN BIGGER land development...
[Dramatic Pause]...
Let's look again at the Land Overview Page...
Look CLOSELY at the rightmost panel...
NEXT AVAILABLE TRACT - VIRREN (139) TRACT 04
THAT MEANS SOMEONE HAS CLAIMED ANOTHER WHOLE TRACT IN VIRREN!!!!!!
Let's go RIGHT NOW and see who it is!!
Look!! There's Virren below us!!
As you can see, a whole new Tract - Tract 3, has been CLAIMED!!
Let's see if we can locate and congratulate the new owner of this Tract and see what they've discovered so far... Most of the Tract looks unsurveyed with a scattering of claims that have had teams sent out to uncover their hidden secrets...
Who is the lucky and proud new owner of Virren (139) Tract 03???
It's... 
Here's a prayer to RNGesus himself, to bless you with the divine luck of discovering the coveted Castle, within your borders!
Let's see what Dadicus has uncovered already with the few surveyed plots he has:
From the four plots you saw were surveyed, dadicus hasn't had the best of luck yet... which must mean it's coming later - RIGHT RNGesus?!?!?
Of the four plots they surveyed it yielded:
1 Natty Common Badlands
1 Natty Common Plains
1 Natty Common Swamp
1 Common Canyon Magic [Fire]
Congrats on the Common Magic Plot - those are worth a little bit extra and we'll check on Land Market Prices next!!
Good luck dadicus - I want to wish you a Legendary Magic Plot and an Epic Occupied at LEAST!!! Have an extra Happy New Year surveying your Tract!!
Reporting live from the field, it's your favorite Hive Author: CaptainDingus... now, back to you, Me...
Well thanks Me, I appreciate your tireless and in depth, adventurous coverage of Praetoria's secrets as they're uncovered!
Let's cut to the financial side of things and check on the Land Market and see what the prices have done over the last 10 Days!
Here's Me again with that info for you; Me?
Thanks me - glad to see the Land Development moving along and congrats again to all the lucky new landowners!!
Checking the Markets now we can see some small movement since the release of the final Splinterlands Land Whitepaper!!
Let's take a look at today's prices 👀👀👀
Natural Land, Low Market Price + (Market Quantity) + {Change} -- "Notes"
- Common (998) [+2]: $37 {-$2 from Previous Report}
- Rare (181) [+10]: $58.80 {+$.80 from Previous Report}
- Epic (45) [+4]: $169.90 {-$20.10 from Previous Report}
- Legendary (6) [+1]: $699.99 {-$84.01 from Previous Report}
Magical Land, Low Market Price + (Market Quantity) + {Change} -- "Notes"
- Common (57) [-3 ]: $125 {+$10 from Previous Report}
- Rare (24) [+1]: $199 {+$30 from Previous Report}
- Epic (18) [+3]: $345 {-$130! from Previous Report} -- "Perhaps a good BUYING opportunity??"
- Legendary (4) [-1 ]: $1,234 {No Change from Previous Report}
Occupied Land, Low Market Price + (Market Quantity) + {Change} -- "Notes"
- Common (12) [-2 ]: $329 {-$19 from Previous Report}
- Rare (6) [-1 ]: $499 {No Change from Previous Report}
- Epic (2) [-2 ]: $1,750 {+$100! from Previous Report} -- "ONLY TWO LEFT!!"
- Legendary (2) [+1]: $6,750 {-$1,250 from Previous Report} -- "👀 THAT LOOKS LIKE A DEAL!"
Mythic Land - Keep + Castle, Low Market Price + (Market Quantity) + {Change} -- "Notes"
- Keep (7) [+1]: $3,499 {+$799! from Previous Report} -- "30% Increase!!"
- Castle (1) [-]: $19,000 {-$21,000!!! from Previous Report} -- "wut... 😵"
HOLY CRAP... THAT'S... THAT'S... Well... Tell'em Gwen!!
SOMEONE COME BUY THIS MF'ING CASTLE UP RIGHT MEOW!!!!
Allllllrighty... thanks for the "Worlds Creepiest GIF" Willem Dafoe... Now that I think about it... That's probably why he usually plays the villain in movies... because he's not named Willem DaHero...
Anyways - enough of that...
As you can see, the Land Markets have seen a good bit of volatility with Occupied Lands seeing the most change... but Kush-Hyg reducing the Castle to $19,000... The only words that come to mind are:
Thanks Tim Orlando, I couldn't have said it better myself!
Now, onward to the Card Rental Markets...
You know what... they've been boring... Card Rental Prices are settling back down with the Season wrapping up but they've definitely had some major ups and downs...
I mean, at one point, earlier this week I rented out my RF Max Copy (L4) of Agor Longtail from Riftwatchers... for FIVE. HUNDRED. DEC... PER DAY!! Yes... you read that right: 500 DEC/d!!
Yeah - this guy... 500 $DEC per day!!
However, even Agor is down to 111 DEC/d now and the other cards have mostly followed suit with a few outliers yielding more than usual DEC returns...
There was so much to cover in the Land Update and Land Market update that I will cover the Card Rental Market in detail later this week... aka Next Year 😉
Tl;Dr - for the lames who just want the deets without the story 😭
- 20 Plots Claimed/Surveyed in Shadowvale (R138), T10. 18 Plots remain!
- dadicus Claimed Tract 3 in Virren (R139) - nothing cool surveyed yet (GL!)
- Land Markets are experiencing volatility - especially Occupied Plots
- Kush-Hyg relisted their Castle for sale at HALF OFF!! $19k vs $40k!! HOLY BALLS!!
- Card Rental Markets have somewhat stabilized and will cover in detail later.
- HAPPY NEW YEAR - you tldr punks 😏... You better make your 2024 Resolution to actually READ MY MATERIAL!!! 😅
With that being said - I want to thank each and every one of you who read my posts (this one took about 2.5 hours to gather the info and write)... which is why the Tl;Dr kills me 😭
I especially appreciate all the Hivers who follow me, reblog and/or upvote my posts (even automatically). That means a lot!!
I hope you enjoyed the read and I hope it helps keep you informed of the ever changing Land and Financial Markets in the Splinterlands Economy!!
While I can't ethically accept bribes... if my posts turn you on to a deal you snatch up (like the Castle or Epic Magic Plot)... I am 100% open to receiving a Finders Fee in any manner and denomination 😋
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Cheers 🍻,
- CaptainDingus
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