Playing Splinterlands Is Simply Just Hoping Your Opponent Has Weaker Cards
This is definitely my observations on splinterlands, from the look of my opponent’s cards, I can tell if am going to win or lose that battle.
Been a while since I played splinterlands, I miss playing it because it’s fun and you get the chance to own cards. Earning DEC And credits also excites me. You just get paid for having fun that’s virtually what splinterlands is to me. But lately I have been so focused trying to be consistent in my daily post, I didn’t have time to play splinterland.
Am I the only way that feels 24 hours a day isn’t enough anymore.
That’s jus by the way, for the past two weeks winning a battle on splinterlands has been really hard. I was thrashed so many times because my opponent’s cards were way better than mine. I was left with just the regular cards. From the image below you will see how I was fatally thrashed by these bullies:
I decided it was time to take renting and buying cards seriously. So I went on cards shopping spree. I had some spare swap.Hive which I swapped for DEC to buy and rent some cards
Sorry am about digress to how to to get DEC into your splinterlands, this is for the newbies that might have this question.
First of all you need to buy DEC token from Hiveengine or leodex. Then go to splinterlands
Click on the plus sign close to the DEC part.
You will be directed to here, click on select wallet. Choose Hive engine wallet
Input the number of DEC you want to move from your Hiveengine to splinterlands. Click transfer in and confirm with either your active key or Hivesigner.
I got my DEC in my splinterlands DEC wallet, and it was time to rent some cards. For some reason I love the fire cards because I feel they are more powerful.
I mean it’s fire, it’s supposed to be very fatal and powerful
I decided to rent EFREET ELDER and FIRE DEMON . I chose these cards because of their abilities and they were quite cheap. They are in my budget range so I rented what I could afford.
I bought and leveled the VENARI HEATSMITH to move it to lvl 3. I need extra 7 cards to place it on lvl 4.
I really don’t know why I bought this card, I guess I have a thing for cheap things because am hoping they will get expensive in future.
The next card I bought was the VENARI CRYSTALSMITH. I bought this card because I saw someone make a post about it and the card was the only familiar card I could afford. There was no particular reason pertaining my choice of purchasing the card.
After buying, renting and leveling these cards, it was way easier winning my battles. I completed my Sneak Quest using these cards. My cards were stronger than my opponent’s cards.
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I'd say strategy is more important than high level cards. Sure they do help a lot, I don't disagree here. But there are numerous battles that I've won with weaker cards, but with better counter strategy. Keep practicing and you'll do just fine.
Exactly, strategy plays an important role too, its hard yes, but not impossible
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Same for me. Great advice
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Yeah strategy has helped me sometimes but this time, my strategies weren’t working so I had to switch to getting cards
Nice. Remember that as you’re increasing the levels of your cards you’ll want to also increase the level of your summoners.
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Those summoners part is something I don’t fully understand. How and why should I increase the level of my summoners.
The summoners level determines the level your cards will have in battle.
For example. You might have a level 5 card. But if the summoner is a level 2, then it won’t be able to accommodate a level 5 so you will be forced to use the lower level the summoner accommodates.
The image above shows the level the summoner can accomodate the different level of cards.
See the image above. A level one Alric can only accomodate a level 1 rare, level 1 common, level 1 legendary, level 1 epic.
Level 2 Alric accommodates level 3 common, level 2 rare etc.
Do you get it now?
Yeah I do, but I thought summoners where these cards we choose before battles:
Are summoners the one with the purple thingy?
everything in that picture are summoners, but each summoners belong to dfferent splinters...
we have five splinters plus the dragon making six on splinterlands
fire splinter - red colour
water splinter - blue color
earth splinter - green
life - white
death _ black
dragon - yell0w
That’s cool. Thanks a lot, but how do my summoners affect the rest?
if your summoner is level 1, it wont be able to summon your monsters that are level 3 above, we have different types of summoner too, you should read how to play on the sl site to learn more about the game, it is a must read for people who are just joining the game..
I have read it before but didn’t understand it, guess I have to reread it
Yeah I'd say with both sides employing average strategy, better cards will win most of the time.
So correct. Better cards and good strategies gives you better chances at winning more battles
This cards thingy... You'd carry me through it. I get confused when it gets to cards..
No problem, I will, whenever you are ready.
I see what you're saying, but with a good strategy, you don't need higher level cards. It's all about placement and being able to guess what summoner ability your opponent is going to use based off their previous battles.
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You are the third person telling me this today. What effect do summoner cards really have
Summoner card can make or break you. They give a buff to your whole team or an effect. Such as one of my favorite from Earth is Mylor Crowling which gives the Thorns effect. All of your creatures have Thorns. Any time one of your cards get hit with melee damage, the card attacking gets melee damage as well. Great defense against everything but Water splinter.
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Understanding and getting it gradually
It will take time!
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Lol, you're not the only one with a (Time-not-enough-mental-breakdown) to call it something. Posting on Hive(being consistent with posts and engagement) and playing Splinterlands (with other hive dapps in my case) Is really hard. Managing time, staying active, etc is just so-so, one must lose a few hours of sleep, hopefully, it doesn't hunt us in the future xD
Lol, I try my best not to joke with my sleep though.
As many have said card levels do matter but you'd be surprised how many times strategy and placement helps.
Just keep practicing a lot, you'll start getting a feeling for those things.
Also, as a master cheapskate myself,I'd suggest focusing on Neutrals and Dragons when you're renting or even buying as those will tend to have more usecases.