On Splinterlands, two new game modes were introduced in Ranked Play during 2025: - the Survival Mode (27 February 2025) - the Frontier Mode (29 July 2025).  I am an active player: - in the **Modern Format** - in the **Survival Mode** - in the new **Frontier Mode** - in the **Brawls** - in the **Lands** and in the **Conflicts**  In Splinterlands Ranked Play there are only two formats in which **bots** can be used: the **Wild Format** and the **Survival Mode**.  I really like playing Splinterlands but only in formats where bots are not allowed.  My personal choice is to only play in formats where bots are allowed if I can make a profit, but if I had the power to change the game dynamics I would ban bots in all Splinterlands formats. I don't play in Wild Formats because after a three season test using XBOT I got unsatisfactory results: - the cost of the Wild Pass ate most of my season earnings - XBOT earned more SPS than I did. ||Post Link: [3 Seasons of Using XBOT in the Wild Format: Results and Evaluations + Time to test Survival Mode! (ENG/ITA)](https://peakd.com/hive-146620/@libertycrypto27/3-seasons-of-using-xbot-in-the-wild-format-results-and-evaluations-time-to-test-survival-mode-engita-j4b)| |-|-| Instead, I am active in the **Survival Mode** where there is no Wild Pass and where I use **XBOT** managing to achieve seasonal SPS gains that are lower than my seasonal gains in the Modern Format but still positive and useful to allow me to increase the amount of staked SPS in my possession.  The game format in which I am most active is the **Modern Format**.  In the current season I only started playing in Modern Format when there were 6 days left until the end of the season because from 14 August to 24 August I was on holiday with my family. Considering that I started playing very late compared to previous seasons, I am satisfied with my seasonal results so far: - **Gold Leaderboard**: Rank 15 - **Rating**: 2580 - **Total Battles**: 116 - **Wins**: 65  Before the release of the Arcane Conclave set I used to play regularly in the Diamond leagues of the Modern Format and sometimes even managed to play in the Champion III league.  Since I can't use my Chaos Legion cards in Modern Format I have dropped down to playing in the Gold leagues of Modern Format but my short to medium term goal is to get back to at least playing in the Diamond III league. My main obstacle to returning to play in the Diamond leagues in Modern Format is the lack of a good number of top level archons. In fact, in Modern Format I can only use one top-level archon of my own: **Akane** of level 4.  I compensated this lack by **renting two top-level archons**: **Nomos** (cost: 39.9 DEC per day) and **Avina Of The Wolf** (cost: 44.56 DEC per day).  The decision to rent two top level archons is proving profitable because my win rate has improved and in fact in the current season I have a **win rate = 56%** (65 wins in 116 battles). To increase the battle strength of my card collection usable in Modern Format my strategy is: - sell cards that I don't or rarely use in battle - buy cards that I consider very useful in battle - buy Starter Packs to build me a base of common cards and especially archons of the Arcana Conclave set that will be particularly useful when the Rebellion set comes out of Modern Format. Today I used the **useful filters** in the My Cards section of [Peakmonsters](https://peakmonsters.com/) to quickly find cards I don't use in battles or very rarely use in the various game modes. In particular, I started this search using the **Not Used (days) = 7** filter to see all the cards I own that I haven't used in a 7-day time span.  https://peakmonsters.com/@libertycrypto27/cards Thanks to this research today I have identified several cards that I can sell For example today I put up for sale **Pyromancer**, Epic Reward card of the Untamed set, because I verified that I haven't used it for 8 months.  I put this card up for sale at the same price as the best BID on the market because I wanted to sell it immediately. **To see if there are any bids for a card is very easy thanks to Peakmonsters.** In fact in the **Buy Cards** section by clicking on the card image and then clicking on **CARD BIDS** you can see if there are any ongoing bids. In the case of **Pyromancer** there was an offer to buy 46 BCX at a price of $0.102 per BCX.  I put my **Pyromancer level 3 (=10 BCX)** up for sale at the price of **$1.02** so I can sell it immediately.  And indeed my card was sold and I received **1171,411 DEC = $1,020**.  https://peakmonsters.com/@libertycrypto27/explorer Today I also put some of my cards on the rental market **Level 3 Byzantine Kitty** is the summoner I used most in Modern Format before the release of Untamed cards from this format.  I have tried several times to sell my Byzantine Kitty without succeeding because I don't want to sell her off at a low price in the hope that in the future I will be able to use her again in a format without bots... This time I will try to make her available for rent. Thanks to the tool [SplinterRoi](https://splinterroi.streamlit.app/) created by @arc7icwolf I saw that there are two level 3 Byzantine Kitty rented at a cost of **73 DEC per day**.  https://splinterroi.streamlit.app/ [Peakmonster](https://peakmonsters.com/) shows me a **Conservative rental cost** of **71,709 DEC per day**.  For my Byzantine Kitty I chose to ask for **70 DEC per day**.  Today I went to the **SHOP->CARD Packs** section of the Splinterlands website and bought **15 Starter packs**.   In the next pictures you can see the 75 cards I found.    Thanks to the cards I found today I was able to make two upgrades: - **Bella Ratajowlski: level 2 -> level 3**  - **Canary Keeper: level 2 -> level 3**  In the next image you can see my last battle I won playing manually with @libertycrypto27 in the **Modern Format** in the **Gold I** league with a **SPS boost x11.48** (141K SPS staked)  View this Battle -> [Battle Link](https://splinterlands.com/battle/sl_04d1ff98d962cb0fb5421c6c8365dbcb?ref=libertycrypto27)  I hope I have given you useful information and some interesting thoughts and thank you for taking the time to read this post :)  ## References and links **Splinterlands**: https://splinterlands.com/register?ref=libertycrypto27 Splinterlands Discord: https://discord.gg/splinterlands  Splinterlands is also a game featured on the [Arcade Colony](https://arcadecolony.com/) platform.  https://arcadecolony.com/  ## Important Note **I am not a financial advisor and the information in this post is not financial advice.** If you decide to invest in a Blockchain-based game you should always do so by your own choice, after making your personal assessments and after considering all possible risk factors. **My advice is to always invest only what you can afford to lose lightly!**  Unless otherwise indicated, the images in this post are screenshots taken from the sites: [https://splinterlands.com/](https://splinterlands.com/register?ref=libertycrypto27) https://peakmonsters.com/ Images containing calculations, tables and formulas are my property The font used in my images or edited by me is Open Source The dividers with the Hive logo in this post were created by me and if you like them you can use them too, the Hive logo is property of https://hive.io/   _{Gif by @splinterlands}    # L'Ottimizzazione della mia Collezione di carte: Vendita di Carte, Acquisto di Starter Packs e Upgrade delle carte.