Introduction to Splinterlands

When you enter something new for the first time, it is always good to know and study every basic aspect that allows us to know how to enter and be able to fight, and here I will try to take those first steps. First, know your NTF cards.

First of all, there are card collections that have a certain number of cards and as new collections come out, new characteristics and abilities are added.

There are 6 collections of which the **GLADIATOR **collection is only obtained by joining a guild.

What is a guild? If you want to see some of this, here I explain some basic aspects.

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As we see, the design has remained more or less the same, only varying in REVELION, where the design change has been seen, although the most important information that we use for combat has remained very similar.

1. 1) Here you can see the mana or energy that is spent using this card. We must take this into account when doing a battle since different types of battle rules and maximum energy that we can use will be randomly placed and that is where we can know up to how many cards and which ones we can use that will limit us or change our strategy as the case may be.

2. 2) This shows the attack of our card and depending on the different abilities this could change, in addition there are different types of attack that can be ranged, magical or melee, each of which has its own rules.

3. 3) This aspect is speed, the higher this number is, the faster it will attack, that is, if you have a card with 2 speed and another with 5, for example, the one with 5 attack will always attack and lastly the one with two, that is, it will attack. first those with the highest number and then those with the lowest.

4. Also, the higher the number, the more chances they will have to dodge our enemy's attacks, if they have slower cards or cards with a lower number, although magical attacks will always hit, although there is an exception that I will talk about later.

5. 4) This is the shield, which will allow us to protect the life of our card, since it must first break the shield before being able to attack the life of our card. Magic attacks jump the shield and attack the life, although there is an exception to this rule.

6. 5) This is the life of my card that when it reaches 0 it will be eliminated.

7. 6) This is the level of the card, which is raised by fusing copies of the same card and this will raise some of the statistics such as life, shield attack or unlock some ability of the card.

8. 7) Here you can see how long it takes for our card to go up to the next level. Depending on whether our card is common, rare, epic or legendary, more or fewer copies will be needed to reach the next level. As we see here, the design of the card changes from how it is shown, both 6). and 7)

9. 8) Here are the abilities of our card that will give you some certain advantages.

To see all the skills that are available, you can see them on this page. You can also see which cards have a specific skill and at what level, so you can plan which cards to buy to put into practice any strategy you have in mind.

https://splintercards.com/abilities.html

1. 9) In this part you can see if our card is soul-bound or not, which means that if it is soul-bound it cannot be sold, rented or delegated, that card can only be used by the respective account, if a chain appears in that corner It is linked to the soul, otherwise it is not and can be sold.

2. For newcomers, we must take into account that the GLADIOUS cards will always be soul-bound and the cards that the reward chests currently give us will be temporarily bound for 1 or 2 years or until their existence runs out.

1. 1A) Here you can see if the card is RED (FIRE), GREEN (FOREST), BLACK (DEATH), WHITE (LIFE) OR BLUE (WATER), DRAGON and this makes the collection of a specific color have more life, more attack of a specific type (magical, ranged and melee), more shield or greater speed.

1. 1B) Here, in addition to seeing the color of the card that we already mentioned, we can see if it is COMMON, RARE, EPIC OR LEGENDARY. This tells us if this card is how difficult it is to come out when you open an envelope and since it is rarer, it is more expensive in the secondary market and is more powerful, has more abilities, etc.

In the case of REVELION cards you can see in 2A) if the card is COMMON, RARE, EPIC OR LEGENDARY.

Another element to take into account is whether the card is normal or gold, which, as we see in the different types of cards, depending on whether they are **COMMON, RARE, EPIC OR LEGENDARY, **its base level will be 3 for the COMMON, 2 for the RARE and 1 for the the EPIC AND LEGENDARY.

Additionally, golden cards require fewer copies to level up than normal cards, as we see.

Getting Started

Once you know what information the cards give you, the time comes when you want to join a battle, but first you have to take into account the type of card according to its form of attack, which will be fundamental in the position that this card can be placed, which It is very important to make a successful and winning lineup.

Depending on the type of attack is the position you can attack.

MAGIC ATTACK

Cards with magic attack can attack from any position in the lineup and also always hit the hit and do not take the shield into account so they attack life directly.

This is one of the most powerful but like everything in life there are exceptions to the rules.

Magic cards always hit the attack except if the cards have the PHASE ability.

Cards with the PHASE ability have a chance to dodge magical attacks.

There are also some abilities that serve to counteract magic cards such as:

1. 1) This ability is MAGIC REFLECTION that returns half of the attack to the attacking creature with a magical attack. This ability is very advantageous since these cards are taking damage while they are attacking you.

2. 2) SILENCE This ability reduces the attack of all creatures with magic attack by -1.

3. 3) VOID The attack received by cards with this ability is reduced by half, rounded down.

4. 4) VOID ARMOR The magic attack hits the shield first. So with this ability, if you place a card with the ability to regenerate shield, it will be more difficult for you to reduce the opponent's life.

RANGED ATTACK

These cards attack from any position except the first position unless they have the ability CLOSE RANGER either from a summoner or from themselves.

In addition, there are also abilities to counter this type of attack.

1. 1) BLIND This ability increases 15% more dodging of ranged or melee attacks to all your cards.

2. 2) DODGE increases the chance to dodge ranged or melee attacks by 25% on the card that has this ability.

3. 3) RETURN FIRE Returns half rounded up ranged card attacks towards the attacker.

4. 4) HEADWINDS reduces the attack of enemy ranged attack cards by -1.

5. 5) SHIELD this ability reduces the rounded down damage of cards with ranged or melee attacks.

MELEE ATTACK

Cards with this attack can only attack from the first position, although the exception is those with the following abilities.

1. 1) OPPORTUNITY, cards with this ability attack the enemy's card with the least life.

It also allows melee cards to attack from any position.

Both 1 and 2 also affect cards with ranged and magic attacks.

1. 2) SNEAK This ability makes the cards that have it attack the card of the last potion, but in this case the cards with melee attack can attack the last card from any position, if the card is In the first position it will attack only the card in the opponent's first position.

1. 1-2) As I described before, this affects the probability of dodging melee or ranged attacks, the first for all cards and the second for only the card that has this ability.

2. 3) DEMORALIZE This ability reduces the melee attack of all enemy cards by -1.

3. 4) RETALIATE when attacked by a melee card returns the attack equal to its attack power.

4. 5) THORNS This ability returns 2 damage to cards with melee attack that attack cards with this ability.

5. 6) SHIELD Halves down the melee attack of all cards.

As we see, each card has abilities that serve to counter a certain alignment, there are also abilities and summoners that gave the advantage to certain cards with a type of attack, to see these abilities consult this page.

https://splintercards.com/abilities.php?ab=8

NO ATTACK

Cards without attack only give certain abilities but can be given the possibility of attacking with this ability.

WEAPONS TRAINING This ability allows you to attack cards without attack adjacent to cards that have this ability.

Maximum attack that can be given is 3.

SUMMONERS

These are the main cards since without them you cannot enter the battle, depending on their level it will be the maximum level of cards you can summon, and it also tells you what color cards you can use.

Now that we know everything about the cards, it is time to see how to enter a battle. First we can buy cards and envelopes, but we will see that in another article, but once you have your cards, we enter a battle.

To enter we press on 1) then we press on 2) and another window will open there.

Another aspect to take into account on this screen is

1. 3) Here comes the FOCUS that tells you what type of cards you can use to increase a percentage of SPS earned and FOCUS points, which are what give you the chance to win prize chests where you can obtain SPS, MERITS, POTIONS, ENVELOPES or CARDS.

2. 4) Here you can see how many chests you have accumulated in the day and the progress for the next chest and the time you have to accumulate chests.

3. 5) Here, the progress you have to move up the league, you must take into account that the larger the league, the better rewards you get, but the better cards you must have and the more SPS in STAKED so that you earn the maximum FOCUS points, in addition to having the cards of the minimum level for that league level.

4. 6) Here you see the number of end-of-season chests and the progress for the next chest.

5. 7) Here you can see the energy you have, if you don't have energy you can't play more battles, 1 energy is recovered per hour and you can buy energy for DEC. To buy, press the + sign where the number of energies appears in 7).

Once chosen, it takes us to this screen where we have the option of seeing the combat or directly seeing the results.

If we see the combat we can analyze where our strategy failed in case we lose, so we can change our alignment in a next combat where there are similar battle rules or see the need to acquire a card that we do not have.

Whether you watch the entire combat or skip it, you will see this screen where you can see the FOCUS points earned, the SPS earned, the level points earned so that you can go up to the next league and we can also see another very interesting thing where you can see the importance If you have gold cards, use the daily FOCUS cards.

Here we see that the reward points are modified by.

Chain of victories, the more consecutive victories you have, the more FOCUS points you will earn.

FOCUS cards, for each FOCUS card used increases reward points obtained by 10%.

Each golden card you use will get you an additional 10%.

Each ALPHA card you use increases the reward points earned by an additional 10%

Each BETA card used earns an additional 5% reward points.

You also get an additional percentage for the guild depending on the level it is depending on the building.

As we see, taking these multipliers into account we can obtain more or less number of reward chests, remembering that a percentage is subtracted for each card that is not your property used and for each card that is not of the minimum level used in the respective league. .

For now I leave this guide here so as not to make it longer and in a future article I will talk more extensively about other parts.

Although in this article I develop how to earn money to improve your alignment if you have time but not money.

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Hoping you like my guide, I look forward to your comments, criticisms and suggestions.