Into Splinterlands

In one of my previous posts, I have shared with you that I was moving on from playing games to playing games that pay: Moving On To a Better Game. I figure that it was not a bad idea to have the games you play make you money instead of just throwing money at them. I think, maybe, that's one of the reasons why streaming games is a big thing in this country nowadays. Just every game you can think of, there's a girl wearing an article of semi-provocative clothing streaming somewhere. Well, who does not want to watch a girl sitting on the screen all day, doing nothing but play games, while she's wearing a Sando revealing half her soul.

On the other hand, there will be some guys shouting profanities or just plain messing up the game just for fun. I envy those girls and those guys that they have the ability to earn a lot of money just from playing games. And with that, I am left to try the play-to-earn games that are making huge waves in the industry today.

Since I do not have enough money to try that Axie thingy, I am sorry to say that I can only impart to you the games that will allow me to play them for free or for just a minimal cost. The game last time was Dream Card and lets you play and start earning without even paying a single cent.

This time around, a cost of around $10 will be needed to start earning. And the game is called Splinterlands.

I have seen this game from all over Noise before but I really didn't pay attention to it until my coworkers tried it. Just like Dream Card, Splinterlands is another magic card game. You collect, trade, sell, and level up your cards. You use the card to battle out other players and climb the ranks. This time around, I'll show you how to get started with the game.

The first thing you have to do is to download the app from the AppStore or PlayStore, or you can even play it right from your computer browser. And that's how I will be playing now. If you are on the browser you just have to go to their site and register for an account.

You just have to use and email address you have access to because they will be sending you a verification message which you will click to get your "base cards". These cards are the ones you will be using for free to battle with other players. This is a card game so of course, it will be significant in the long run to have good cards. You can purchase these or other cards later on.

You can also use other means of logging in or registering like Metamask. Once you are able to log in, you will then get access to the main menu of the game from which you can select "cards" to see the cards that you can readily use for battles.

From this view, you can see all the cards that you can take to battle. And on the upper section of the screen, you can see the different filters that you can apply to the search results. These filters are the attributes that each card has.

Edition, Foil, Role, Rarity, and Splinter. These are the main attributes that a card will possess. We will ignore the first and the second because they are just taggings that can tell us when the card was released and if it was bought expensively or what. Basically where the card came from.

The role attribute of the card is an important thing to note. There are two roles available in the game. The first is "Monster" and the second one is "Summoner". In a battle, you will be able to use a maximum of 5 monster cards and one Summoner card.

In a battle, the first thing you will do is to select a summoner card, the summoner card will then determine which monster cards you can use. Summoner cards have different sets of monster cards to be used. This will be explained later with the gameplay.

The next attribute is Rarity. This will be displayed on the middle part of the card which resembles a crystal orb. The rarity of the card can be determined by the color of the orb.

Grey orbs are common cards, blue are Rare cards, purple orbs indicate an Epic card, and the yellow ones mean Legendary. The rarer the card is, the powerful and the expensive it becomes.

The next one is the most crucial attribute of a card. It's called the Splinter. If you have played other games, this could be compared to "elements" of a character like fire, wind, water, Earth, etc. In this game, of course, we have Splinters. Basically, they are the type of cards, we have fire, water, Earth, Life (light), Death (Dark), Dragon, and a neutral type which is "Attack".

The splinter type you can use in battle will also rely on your first pick or your summoner card. A summoner card of Splinter-type fire will only be able to use fire-type monsters and attack (neutral) monsters. The same goes for the other Splinters. A summoner can only summon the monsters with the same splinter and the neutral-type cards.

Hiya!

I think this is a good point for us to have a break. Following the steps above, you surely now have a starting deck and a credential in Splinterlands. In the next part, I will impart with you the basic strategy and the gameplay itself. Hopefully, you can stick with me until then.

I don't know what it is, but I play better when I am on a mobile phone, it's hard for me to win when I am playing on the computer. I know what you think, I don't just suck. But I partly agree. For the first few days of playing this game, I was not really "playing", I was not even paying attention to my team's composition but now, I am slowly getting the hang of it.

I hope you like this one and I really appreciate you being here, see you on the next one and ...

Cheers!!!