Are you already savoring your piece of the pie? or are you a mere mortal looking for a way to distract yourself but earn money at the same time?
Splinterlands is for you... so I'll give you some tips if you are new to the game or even if you have been playing for a while.

These tips are more for people like me who don't have enough money to buy competitive diamond or even gold league decks.

I'll get straight to the point and then tell my story if you want to read it.

Tip number 1.

Please, for the love of God, NO, listen to me! Don't sell your pelacor and your venaris!

They are very good cards but many people throw them away because they are "given away".

So I will tell you something very important. Did you know that there are people who play in gold-diamond league only with rewards cards? did you know that? I guess not because you are giving away your regular cards in the market.

See that?the team below is made up of 90% rewards cards, the summoner along with 4 of 5 cards are rewards editions, these people who play since the "beta" edition and have been accumulating rewards, improving them and exchanging them, today play with decks made of rewards cards and that battle is just an example of many players a bit older, they play based on rewards cards.

Here is the ultra mega supreme super saiyajin winning games (diamond) with only rewards cards...I cover the names because the game is not mine, it is one of many that I have seen where the rewards dominate.

So, you may be thinking "it's too late for me, those rewards won't be given again", you're right, but they will give new ones and that's what you should aim for, accumulate chaos legion rewards cards and then in due time accumulate rebellion rewards cards when this edition comes out, it's not a fast way, but it's the best to choose if you don't have the thousands of dollars you need to complete diamond level decks.

Tip number 2.

Play tournaments, it's not easy. There are many eagles waiting for the opening day of a tournament to sharpen their claws with their best cards and go after other players without any compassion whatsoever.

But, that's the best thing, whether you are in bronze, silver, gold or any league, it's always good to play against the best.

At first you may not win any tournament but still participate and learn, when you lose in a tournament, do not just say "well, I lost" and go to do who knows what, stay a moment and watch the games of the first places, analyze why they won, learn from them and improve as a player, in the long run will bring you very good results.

Winnings in tournaments is something much more fixed if you are a good player, it is not like chests where you depend purely on luck.

Tip number 3.

Write a post on peakd.

I don't think you don't have time to dedicate about 2 hours a week to create a post.

@splinterlands you have 3 fun weekly challenges where you can use your creativity...the curators will vote on your post depending on how good it is.

This is good in two ways, the first is that it would increase your resource credits with the HP you earn from the posts, the resource credits (RC) are spent with every move you make in the hive network, whether it is renting cards, selling a card, buying a card, publishing a post, voting on other people's posts... and believe me it is very bad to want to rent some cards and have the RC at 1%, you can't, it won't let you rent.

You can buy cards with the HBD you earn, use them for your rentals or whatever you want. Do you want to spend the HBD on packs and have that 10$ turn into 2$ because you didn't get anything damn good? go ahead, no one is stopping you.

But the best thing is to grow as a whole, what you earn, reinvest it, improve your account, move up the league, increase your rewards as your popularity grows in hive, get more votes, don't just keep making splinterlands posts, do whatever you want, the possibilities are endless.

And finally, tip number 4.

Be consistent, focus on your goals and don't give up, be positive.

Let's see, it's not much, I'm not here to tell you about "the shadow of the wind" by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (excellent book, I recommend it) but I want to introduce myself and tell you who I am.

My name is Bryan Lopez, 21 years old; almost 22 in December.

I come from "nft games" from the bsc network when that was the "BOOMM" of the internet.

Thank god I didn't get scammed, I was able to get in a little bit in time and get some profit that later due to my mental and economical immaturity I misspent it all.

Well, I met splinterlands looking for a way to earn some money and what better way to do it than playing too.

So, I tried the tutorial and I liked it a little, I kept playing games even without paying the book and I loved it, the card game I had been looking for a long time and much better, because I can earn some money with it, the bad thing ... I did not have to buy the book hahahahahahaha.

I did some research and I saw that I could get a code to get a free book but after a while I couldn't get anything anywhere.

I entered the splinterlands discord to ask if someone could sell me one of those codes, it would cost me much less than buying the book directly, I said to myself.

Nobody had one.

A mavericks answered me, at the time I thought he was an administrator of the group, his orange name differentiated him from the rest.

He said that he could pay me for the book and that I could pay him little by little.

I agreed... when I asked him in what currency I could pay him or how, he simply said "playing".

I thank @sayee who gave me the book of echizos, to this day I am still very grateful, at that time I did not have much money, today I have a little more and I hope to repay that good deed he did, maybe not to her but good deeds are contagious and if I am good to someone, it is certain that someone will be good to someone else.

This was my collection of cards until a few weeks ago, I had many more but I was selling them, I had an investment opportunity, I didn't have much money but there I had the cards, about 40$ if I sold them, so I sold them promising to buy them back.

This is what I meant by tip number 1, accumulate rewards, I was maxing them, at some point thanks to those rewards I could finally play without the need to rent or simply rent one or another card to complement.

my investment paid off but my thinking changed a little bit.

I asked myself the following question: is it better to max the rewards again or to buy the legendaries that will be very important in the future?

I decided to buy the legendaries that I think will be the most important when the untamed and dice editions come out of "modern"...for the rewards I still have time, I will buy these first that are scarcer and then I will buy the rewards again.

I have 16$ in credits, but I will gather a little more in the next days and I will buy another jacek, I will raise it to level 3 to use it in the gold league,
it is the middle point for me, later I will max it but first I will raise it to level 3.

The corpse fiend of death element I buy it before the jacek, I will not sell it and I will buy the fire one when I finish to raise jacek level 3.

These are the CL legendaries that I have in my sights to buy, but first, jacek level 3.

I want to have the ones that I think will be more important in playability, those are the ones that will cost more, so I better buy them now.

I would like to stop renting cards to play from now on, but my progress will be a little slow, but sure, I know that someday I will go up to champion only with my own cards.