The Talisman Market is open
Ten days ago we said the Talisman Market was built and being tested with our own money before it was tested with yours. That testing is done. The Talisman Market is open, now, at splinterlanes.com — under the Talisman menu, where Coming Soon used to be.
If you are new here: Splinterlanes is a three-Lane battle format for your real Splinterlands collection — one Ticket a battle, real card prizes. A Talisman is a small artifact that hangs one to three mods over your Friendly Lane, the first always a Rules Mod, the rarer ones a Tier 2 or Tier 3 mod on top. Until today, the only way to get one was to win it. Now you can buy the one you want, and sell the ones you do not.
Selling
Open the Market, scroll to Sell yours, pick any Talisman you own, and name your price. Prices are shown in US dollars; you set them to the cent. That is the whole listing — no fee, no Engraving required, and you can take it down again whenever you like.
One rule to know before you list: a listed Talisman is out of play. The moment you list it, it leaves every Deck it was equipped to, and it will not be dealt into your Friendly Lane while it sits on the Market — you play with a loaner in the meantime, like any player with no Talisman equipped. Take the listing down and it is yours to equip again. The reason is simple: a buyer is paying for a Talisman that is not also fighting for its seller.
When it sells, you receive 95% of what the buyer paid, in the same token they paid with, sent straight to your Splinterlands account. The house keeps the other 5%.
Buying
Every listing on the board is open to every player. Press Buy on one and you get a quote in DEC and in SPS at the live rate, held for ten minutes. Pick a token and sign one transfer in Hive Keychain — the same signature you already give to top up Tickets. No stored keys, no balance held for you.
The page then follows your purchase from payment seen to yours, and it usually takes about a minute. When it lands, the Talisman is in your inventory already Engraved on the Hive blockchain — the same permanent record you can pay a Ticket for today, written by us as part of the sale, at no cost to you.
If a sale cannot complete — the seller took the Talisman down while your payment was on its way, or someone else's payment for the same listing landed first, or the price changed under your quote — your payment comes straight back in full, to the same account, in the same token. We tested exactly those cases before opening: we bought and sold between our own accounts, in both tokens, including the sales that had to fail, and watched every refund land.
What is on the board
Nothing yet. As this post goes out, the Market is empty, because nothing appears there that was not already someone's — the supply is what players hold and choose to part with. The first listings will be yours, and so will the first prices. Every Talisman that changes hands is written to the chain as part of the sale, so the record of what was bought, from whom, and what it carried is kept where we cannot lose it.
If you are wondering what a Tier 3 is worth, so are we. The Market is where that gets decided.
Where Talismans come from
- Ranked and stakes wins. Every ticketed win rolls for a prize, and sometimes the prize is a Talisman.
- Real Sealed Bundles. Each one comes with a Tier 2 or higher Talisman to keep, already Engraved.
- Foil-heavy Decks. The Foil Talisman Bonus lifts a prize Talisman's chance of landing at Tier 2 or Tier 3 — see Your Deck in the Tutorial.
- Your Gallery shows your mightiest Talisman of every Rules Mod, public by username — a good place to see what you have and what you are missing.
Also new since the last update
The battlefront now plays on a bowling lane: maple boards under every Lane, gutters along the edges, the lane arrows pointing at the battle line, and the foul line where your Archon stands. The round counter is a scoresheet that takes a strike mark once combat starts, and a win is a Strike. Splinterlands is bringing bowling skins to its cards; we got to the lane first.
The Market is new and this blog is where it gets looked after. If a listing, a purchase, or a refund does anything you did not expect, comment below — we read quickly, and the first weeks are exactly when we want to hear it.
