I overlooked some of the free tools on Peakmonsters and today I would like to go over one of those tools. Under their buy tab with compare by, filter to season rentals, to see data on how many of each card is rented!
I of course went straight to my own card collection to compare my rentals to the current market.
In the example to follow I went over some of my gold foil cards that were not rented.
Since I do not level up my gold foil I filter down to level 3 and 4 to find cards that could potentially yield me extra DEC. Within the list of cards I have I can see current market how many of that specific card is rented out and how many are available on the market.
To gauge on how much to price the rents I look at the median DEC and the low list CP/DEC ratio.
By seeing current market lowest price I can see what cards I can rent out for about the same amount.
Filter out the higher level gold foils that I have free to rent it appears not many are very attractive since most I hold are renting out less than 10 cards. There is no demand hence I would hold off from renting mine. This in part allows me to not waste DEC just so to post cards out to rent when odds are stacked against me.
Another example is me filtering out the most rented cards that I own and then seeing market's lowest price being rented out. Then any cards that rented out more than 1 DEC would mean it will more likely rent out if I posted it on the market. This is because if the card is rented out at 1 DEC it is the minimum players can rent the card at. At rock bottom prices there are many cards in the market so odds are less likely someone renting my card. I spotted a few that I had that could yield me more DEC.
If you ever wonder why a card simply would not rent look no further than going through Peakmonster's data. It shows which cards have very few, like one card, out in the market for rent thereby the price could be excessive, in the hundreds of DEC, and no renter. When supply of cards are low and demand for them the price simply needs to come down. Peakmonster's tool that is free for all users do not automatically lower the prices significantly enough to increase potential for the card to rent out. However users can go through the rental filter to see which level of that specific card actually got rented out and adjust their own card prices accordingly.
Overall any free tool to me is a good tool to use. For peakmonsters to show all these rental data for free is extremely good. Hopefully this remains free and for now we get to enjoy the fruits of their labor.
I will end it with one other unique data point I gathered. In terms of Modern play when cards only associated to that league are rented out I was surprise to see not one card had more than 40 of that card were rented out currently. Although its not full range of levels from 1 to 10 but set within Diamond league the amount is not staggering.
My conclusion to this is the cost to play is too high and there are not that many actively participants willing to put up with such prices. It maybe a premium now to play Splinterlands and that is the cost we have to bear as players / investors to the game. As a long term holding I hope market prices will adjust accordingly and in turn lead to greater demand for Splinterlands.