Splinterlands: Bitcoin Halving Promo Event!

Hello everyone! It's time to make another Splinterlands blog post for this weeks Social Media Challenge, and for a change we have a new subject to write about, with the Bitcoin Halving about 36 hours away, the Splinterlands team made a new Bitcoin Halving Promotional event, just like four years ago.

Back then, the Halfling Alchemist was the new Promo card, and the only card with the Halving ability which reduced the attack of the monster it hits - like the name implies - in half, which can be quite effective because most of the times the card on the front, or the 'tank' can do some serious damage!
Since then, the only card that also got the halving ability is Arkemis the Bear, but with a 12 mana count he can't be used in lower mana battles.

If you're a Splinterlands player yourself, or thinking about starting - did you know you can fund your deck by making two blog posts every week? This was you can slowly but surely expand your deck without having to bring in a ton of personal funds alone, doing this consistently every week I earn about $50-60 every month! 🤑
To find out how you can participate in the challenge yourself, you can find the Splinterlands post here.

Lately there have been a lot of negativity and FUD around Splinterlands, at the same time the team is making a lot of changes to the game and rewards structure which long term is a good move I feel, and, if you're not here for fast money but to have fun when you like the strategic gameplay, it's a great time to start I think, now prices are very low!

But first...What Is Splinterlands?

So, for people who don't know, Splinterlands is an online collectible card game using blockchain technology. Every card in the game is owned as a NFT and is traded on the Hive blockchain. It's the digital, modern version of Magic: The Gathering with some extra advantages like it's much easier to rent out cards to other players for profit, join tournaments and Guild Brawls.

Cards are available to buy and sell through the ingame marketplace as well as on third-party online marketplaces like Peakmonsters and Monstermarket. Winners can earn real money in the form of Splinterlands own governance token Splinterlands Shards (SPS), making it a lucrative platform for extremely skilled players with the best cards.

With your card set you battle other players, each card has it's own mana value, strengths and abilities and every battle has another mana cap and different rule set, in the higher leagues up to 3 rulesets combined, so if you can wrap your head around the do's and don't in this particular match better than your opponent does, you'll have an advantage already, making it a highly strategic game.

The Baron's Bounty Bitcoin Halving Promo Event!

Well that's enough smalltalk, let's get on with todays main topic, for - at the time of writing this - 13 more days we can buy the two new Promo cards, Baron Fyatt and Henchling Enforcer.

Baron Fyatt is a Legendary monster which can be used in both the Fire and Death splinters, with a price of 31.25K DEC, or at current DEC price $27.15 per BCX.

Henchling Enforcer is a Rare monster which can be used in both the Water and Life splinters, with a price of 3.125K DEC or $2.71 per BCX.

You can get a roughly 50% discount when you use vouchers to buy the cards.

On top of that, the Splinterlands team offers additional prizes close to $100K at current market price!

The Splinterlands team is providing the following prizes from its own wallets for the event (nearly $100k worth at current market prices):
500 PLOT tokens
100 Alpha packs
250 Beta packs
500 Untamed Packs
50 Essence Orb Packs
100 Azmare Dice Packs
20 Runi NFTs

For me personally, I have only bought 1 BCX of the Henchling Enforcer because I'm accumulating SPS tokens instead 😁, zig when others zag to use the words of Dwayne Cunningham... 😀

So, with this much salt out there, is it still worth playing you ask?

Well, to be fair, the main problem I think with most, if not all crypto games at the moment is almost everyone jumps at the new hyped games, get in big, ride the waves, and the dump the assets on the remaining players earning a lot this way and quit the game - find a new hyped game to rinse and repeat.
When you're looking for this, Splinterlands is NOT for you, as it's one of the OG web3 games that has survived trough a lot of negativity and a full fledged crypto winter, I started playing in 2021 while I never played a Trading Card Game before, and the only time in a year I stop playing is in the summer holiday when I'm abroad to spend quality time with my family.
After 2.5 years I'm still having fun every day, in that time I've built up my account from a low Bronze deck to a high Gold deck, and the earnings you ask? Well, they're still not bad for a game I would've probably played anyway, this is what I earned in SPS from the last two days, maybe three, I'm not entirely sure...

With the SPS price dropping hard again because BTC is rolling over to take another dump I think, I still earned 82 SPS worth $1.14 at current market price, but I'm not interested in selling at these prices 😁

When you're interested in starting, let me know and I'll happily guide you personally in your Splinterlands journey, we even have a guild made for starting players. When you sign up, please consider using my referral link and I would be happy to send the DEC is get from your signup to your account to help you get started!

That's it for this post, the sun has finally chased away the rain clouds so it's time for me to go outside!

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.

Have a great day!