Hello fellow Splinterlands players, fans or interested people reading this, and welcome back to my Splinterlands blog! It's a Sunday today and it's already pretty late for me to make my second Splinterlands Challenge post for this week to hopefully help fund my account a bit, it's a recurring trend for me unfortunately - the being late part I mean with that... With a lot of Splinterlands related things going on and a new hobby / sport I started it means a little less time on my PC.

I'm making this post to take part in this weeks Weekly Splinterlands Community Engagement Challenge, and the challenge this week is the same as last weeks, to make a post about the upcoming release for the new set called Conclave Arcana

To find out how you can participate in the challenge yourself, and earn something extra to buy more Splinterlands assets with, check out the official Splinterlands post here.

💡 Challenge Prompts:
What are you most excited about with the release of Conclave Arcana?
Any card art, lore teasers, or abilities you're hoping to see?
How do you think this set will impact your personal strategy?

Don't miss out!

The launch of the new set is getting very close and the Pre-Sale is ending in 7 HOURS from now, buying packs in the Pre-Sale is the only way the get your hands on the two promo cards which will not be available in the main sale.

To be guaranteed of them, you need to spend 40k DEC for the Skinwalker and 400k DEC for Gramel.
Personally I have bought 10 standard packs to get to the required 40k to at least get the Skinwalker and support the team which is doing amazing work with all the improvements to the game, respect to all of them!

Leaderboard

Looking at the leaderboard, with a modest investment myself I am currently at place 650 while last week I was still in the top 500, meaning there's a lot of players who spent more than $40 on the pre-sale so that's awesome, Modern League will be a totally different place!

The leaderboard has changed a lot since last week, the first image below this text is from last week:

And today BraveTofu has been knocked from the first place by Cryptomancer, one of the developers on the team and the one and only who's doing amazing job for the Land Updates.

As you can see there's a total of 1.7 BILLION DEC spent in the pre-sale so far, which is a whopping 1.7 Million Dollar, Splinterlands is so back!

Will BraveTofu spend more to take the first spot back? The difference is $30k so that's not small!

Nothing has changed on my behalf, my focus now is on getting my lands online and I'm going to need about $500 more in DEC for that so that will take me a while, my blogging earnings I'm saving up for now to buy Conclave Arcana cards from the secondary market, buying packs maybe fun and definitely has a lot more advantages now compared to the previous sets with all the new foils available but I still think completing your deck with cards you need is the way to go for the smaller players.

Zig when other's Zag

Being one of the people who are still playing with cheap high level Chaos Legion cards, I didn't go heavy in Rebellion at all until like six months ago to prepare for the new rotation when Chaos Legion rotates out of modern. I prepared for this by building a close to max Silver level Rebellion set, this is only a relatively small set and I haven't played a whole let with it so basically it will be a completely different experience once the rotation happens.

Looking at the game long term, and realizing every 18 months a new set will launch, taking it's place from the oldest of the two current modern sets but LAND will be here forever, I've chosen to dedicate most of my funds to expanding my land allocation for now and not go heavy in to Conclave Arcana for now, because I have a strong Rebellion set including reward cards I hope I can be competitive and be the unexpected opponent hopefully, when most players fight with Conclave Arcana cards.

I realize, there WILL be need to have cards that synergize really well with Rebellion so I will be buying them from the secondary market.

Quick Tip: Buy on the Aqualis Market to get the most fee rebate.

How do you think this set will impact your personal strategy?

Well, it's going to be HUGE, I think it will be for everyone but especially for the players like myself, currently playing with a 'cheap' Chaos Legion set in the upper regions, we can't afford this high level play anymore so we will be forced to play in the lower leagues or transfer to Wild League.

I want to keep participating in Modern League myself, and I was a Silver player for most of my Splinterlands career anyway so I don't mind at all, and because I'm not the only one facing this problem, I hope and expect the lower leagues will be played by a lot more people again.

The fact that in ten days, overnight 80% of the people currently playing in modern with Chaos Legion decks won't be able to do so anymore will have massive impacts and maybe will give some match liquidity problems in the first days? The reward pool will get shared with a lot less players in the first couple of days or maybe weeks, who knows!

Currently I'm manually playing two accounts in Diamond, this will change to only one manual account and leave the other one to XBOT in wild, giving me some more time for other things, or maybe bring another account online to help our second guild fill brawl frays as long as this is needed by the lack of enough active players.

Brawl frays will also change!

There was a SPS Proposal vote at some point discussing the topic about how brawl frays will change after the rotation and I haven't followed the outcome about it but while everyone is concentrating on ranked play, I think the change in brawls will be big as well when the change discussed in the voting will happen, hopefully especially in the lower brawl tiers, there will just be a modern / wild separation without any specifics for which set because it's already difficult for most guilds filling the frays with a lack of dedicated active players, with the launch of the main sale as well as the marketing and hopefully an influx of new players this too will get better, but small guilds like the ones I run don't have a lot to offer compared tp the big guilds but community and making friends.

So, when you're reading this and you don't have a guild, or you're in a dead guild, let me know, there's room for you!

That's it for this week! More grinding to do on my part since both of my account are getting close to 50 energy again.

Thank you for reading!!!

If you haven't made an account already, please consider using my referral link to sign up, I'll happily send the amount I get for your signup back to you in DEC or SPS to help you start.

Also, when you require any help to get you started,let me know, I'm here to advice and guide new players and maybe I can help you with card delegations too!

Have a great day!