Loving the new soulbound reward summoners.

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Soulbound reward cards.


At the start I was totally against soulbound cards as it went against everything that the game had promised in it's early days. I'm still not a huge fan of the concept but knowing that the cards will become fully owned at some stage in the future does take the sting out things considerably.

It did however seem to turn off the bot owners as the amount of games being played dropped massively since the changes came in. Funnily enough when I went looking for the stats the amount of battles has almost recovered since then. You can see the big dip form when the changes came in.



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Soulbound summoners.

We have had a couple of reward based summoners in the past but nothing like this scale here with a full set available.

Just Daria Dragonscale and Kretch Tallevor.

Now we have these,

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This is a whole different ball game however. It usually costs a lot of money to max out summoners where as reward cards are easy to pick up on the market. It's going to be interesting to see how fast it will take to build a complete set of these new summoners but suddenly I will be able to have a full selection of splinters for free.

This has already incentivized me to get back into champion and increase my rewards to speed up the process. With the rental markets in the gutter it makes more sense to pull some cards back to my deck and try to earn as many cards as possible to complete the new reward set and then stack the extras for when they can be sold or rented.

The new abilities are interesting as they are similar to the OG summoners but with the conscript ability added for three extra mana. Probably worth it in the higher mana battles as I often have mana to spare any way plus it will bring in the more powerful gladiators to the party when they are used.

This brings a lot of new complexities to the game and more pressure to do well in the brawls and level up the gladiators cards as well.

At the moment I don't have a fire or a water splinter active as it was more profitable to rent out those cards on the market but since I will have summoners in my account that i can't sell it is the one thing to but up a few of the cheap reward cards from the last set, build up the latest set and combined with my neutrals be able to compete in all of my battles going forward. It wasn't often but once in a while i had to surrender as i couldn't play the splinter selected which always hurts.

I have also noticed my rewards improving since the latest changes as less players are competing for the reward pool maybe? Or the team have increased the drop rates with these new multiple rewards? I'm not sure but it definitely seems to be better than it was.

Anyway I will have to try and get back to playing more regularly and move up the ranks again. My account was on autopilot for the past while but the bots aren't great with their selections a lot of the time. It's also not a bad time to buy some of the older cards which have dropped in price as the player numbers have declined.

Only 115 cards to max out each one so that shouldn't take too long. I hope....



Try for yourself.



If you haven't played the game before then now is the best time to join. Today is much better than tomorrow and a lot better than later.

Cards worth a few cents now will have a much higher value in the future as the print runs out. We have a strong community and seen this happen every time as it grows with the game.

Link to the game here,



Splinterlands.



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I don't really like the soulbound, as I would have maxed the summoners. They are coming very slow in. At least, they will be available for purchase, when they go out of print.

Bots are still here and kicking. Can't make it to CL this seasons.

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They are coming in slow so far but EOS should give us a nice boost hopefully.

I like that it will take some time to max them out and have gotten some fresh interest in playing again to move up the ranks.

I wonder how long will it be before they unbind from the accounts and what effect it will have on the market?

Bots are still there but are easy enough to beat. I never worry about them too much.

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Well, I think half a year at least, till all are gone.

Bots are good for me in the end, as they keep traction going with games.

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I haven't gotten any summoners yet but I do like seeing new and interesting cards in my account. Not sure if I can keep up with game play and new strategies but fingers crossed that the game will grow.

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Always nice to see new cards in the account.
Over time now we will fill out the collections and get all the nice new cards.

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Yeah, there are going to be some really interesting dynamics coming into the game once these cards become powerful enough to play the higher leagues. It seems like they're shaping the drops to only include certain cards on certain days as I've seen a lot of the same cards being dropped to multiple people, whereas other cards don't seem to have shown up at all yet.

I've got a couple cards now that I could conceivably play in Diamond/Champion. One GF common is Level 6 and the stats don't improve much going higher. It just adds another trait. It will be very niche trying to fit these in, especially since every game now seems to have 3 rulesets to contend with.

I really like the way things are headed. Hopefully the team can continue to make progress on the land and have it ready to eat up these cards once they are ready to become unchained.

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It seems like they're shaping the drops to only include certain cards on certain days as I've seen a lot of the same cards being dropped to multiple people, whereas other cards don't seem to have shown up at all yet.

I haven't seen this but it would be interesting if the team were trying to control the issue of cards for the rewards.

You're doing very well if you've already gotten cards up to a decent level. All of mine are still bronze.

I've been worried about the game this year but hopefully the team are turning things around and steadying the ship with these cards and land coming at some stage. I'm not ready to bail out yet and hope to see growth for 2023.

Hopefully the team can continue to make progress on the land and have it ready to eat up these cards once they are ready to become unchained.

Very important as there will be an absolute flood of cards hitting the market together.

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I have some soul-bound rewards and I think a lot of bots have stopped playing after the changes happened. They can't sell off the cards right away so there is only so much they can earn.

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We'll have to wait and see on these changes. They seem to be going well so far but we won't know for sure until they unbind and we see the effect it has on the game.

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Like you I wasn't in favour of the soulbound reward cards but taking all things in consideration, they are great for the game economy and I like the fact that you can plenty of cards within one chest. Great post!


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They seem to be a positive change so far so props to the team on the changes.
We won't know the long term effect for a while as there are a lot of cards being rewarded that will be sellable at some stage.

Interesting times ahead.

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I am also motivated to collect brand-new reward cards. I started to rent more expensive cards. I am in the champions league and have 50 champions league chests. I am curious about the reward cards I will receive. It is like a gold rush. Players with high-level reward cards will obtain a competitive advantage that can be replaced with money for some time.

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I am in the champions league and have 50 champions league chests. I am curious about the reward cards I will receive.

That's a nice prize waiting for EOS. Looking forward to seeing how the rewards are looking tomorrow.

I might do the same next season and try to meet you in champions. At the moment i'm just in D1 and can't get over the line.

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I'm excited for the new reward cards as well. I'm in it for the long haul, so waiting for the cards to become unlocked is no problem. I have heard from different people that the cause of the drop in games played is not the bot farms closing. But rather, they played until 0 ECR to maximize the old reward cards. The 4 days of low battles were the 4 days where they were recovering their ECR.

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