How will Staked SPS affect the Card Market and Rental Market?

How will CP changes affect the Card Market and Rental Market?

It was recently announced that we will be moving to staked SPS instead of a CP requirement to determine a players league. This is a massive change to the way ranked battles currently work and will effect many things in the game. In this post I would like to focus on the how this change will affect the card market and rental market.

I think overall this change will be positive but the rental market is sure to take a hit. Currently many players and most bots rent CP in order to play in certain leagues. Going forward this will no longer be neccesary and players will not need to rent cheap cards to meet certain requirenments.

Players not needing to rent CP leads directly into card duplicates. With no need for collection power, current reward cards and other cards with high liquidity will likely be hard or impossible to rent out. This may also cause selling pressure on these cards as some players will not want to have these cards sitting in their collection and not earning.

Gold foil cards will also likely be impacted as well likely to a lesser extent though. GF cards still offer added utility by giving a player increased earning potential in ranked battles.

This change is going significanlty alter alot of aspects of Splinterlands, many of which I have probably not even thought of. I'm interested to see what ways other people think this is going to change the game.