The price is right - or is it? - Community Engagement Challenge

I’m a buyer. I don’t like to rent, although it might be cheaper. I like to own my cards and be able to play them whenever I want, without worrying about renewing a rental. But that also means that I have to be as precise as possible in my buying strategy. Here’s a guide on how to get the maximum out of your hard earned money.This is part of the Community Engagement Challenge: https://peakd.com/hive-13323/@splinterlands/splinterlands-community-engagement-challenge-tutorials-and-tips-from-the-community-smy7e4

Please read this post for more information on how to determine which cards to buy: Click here for the other post :-)

My tracking pages

I use two pages for maximum turnout. For tracking my cards, I use https://splintertrends.com/ - @splintertrends just added a new feature, the watchlist. This allows you to track up to 10 different cards for free, and getting notifications even on Discord. Learn more about it here: https://peakd.com/hive-13323/@splintertrends/introducing-the-watchlist-feature

I check the list once a day, sometimes twice, sometimes every two days. If one of my favorite cards comes close to the buy price, I am more vigilant – talking about, how do I determine the buy price?

Using Monstercards.store to determine a buy in

Click here to use my referral link - thank you! :-) – I love it because you get back a part of the buying price in form of DEC. 75% of the market fee, to be precise. This link is a referral :-)For that, I use the shop established by @monstercardstore :

In this example, I want to buy Runemancer Florre at level 1. From the main page, it already looks good - but the price could be down from a very high one, and still not worth it. I click on the name, and a window pops up with more information, including a history of buy and rent prices – up to 90 days back. Quite awesome. Why? Because I can see what the lowest point in the last 90 days was, and I usually choose that price to determine my buy-in.

$3.95 is the lowest in this case – since we’re talking about a Chaos Legion set which will rotate out of modern in around 5 months, I set my price at $3,75 – I don’t need the card right now, it’s a “nice to have” for certain situations. Chaos Legion will probably drop even more when the new set is released. Probably, maybe not :-D

Using Splintertrends to follow the price development

Now I return to Splintertrends, and search for Runemancer Florre.

I follow the guide provided in the link above (Click here for the link again, just in case :-D ), and create a watchlist item.

In this case, the price still has to drop around 7% to get to my buy in. That’s okay, I can wait.

Since I don’t have too much space on my watchlist, I put in the most important ones – like Yodin Zaku, Tofu, Mantaroth and all the beasts that spin a match. Besides that, I have my Excel-List of cards that I would like to buy, and scan the general discount list from Splintertrends once a day – or I wait for @splintertrends to post their daily updates on mega-discounts. I found a few really awesome discounts there, like Agor Longtail, a card that won me more battles than I can count.

All that glitters is not gold!

BUT! Only because a price dropped 60 or 80%, doesn’t mean it’s cheap! Always check back with the history on monstercard.store in order to find out if it’s just coming down from a ridiculous price point, or if the drop is genuinely a steal deal.

And that’s how I use my money efficiently to get a high effectiveness of my deck. Step by step, card by card – always with patience.

What strategies do you use?

Do you have a favorite tool or website to track the price of your most wanted?

Feel free to comment any remarks and leave your own posts in the comments section for me to review as well. Thank you very much for reading and enjoy the game!