Splinterlands is an online collectable trading card game (TCG) which runs on the Hive blockchain. Unlike similar games such as Hearthstone or Pokémon TCG Online, in Splinterlands each individual card is a digital asset in the form of a non-fungible token (NFT.) In other words, each card is owned by the player and cannot be taken away by the people who are running the Splinterlands game. You are free to buy and sell cards on the open market or even rent them out to earn a passive income.

The game costs just $10 to join, which gets you a starter pack of 30 cards sufficient to begin playing. There is no obligation to spend any more money after that initial ten bucks. Like any TCG you're going to want to regularly expand your collection beyond the first 30 cards if you want to stay competitive in the game. In this post I'd like to show you six ways you can grind out free cards right now. Also check out the bonus tip at the end!

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1 - Daily Quests

By far the easiest way to regularly obtain new cards is to complete the Daily Quest. Currently the daily quest is always the same: Win five ranked battles with a particular splinter. So you might get Earth splinter or Life splinter, for example. You simply hit the Ranked button in the Battle page and pick a team from the appropriate splinter. After five wins like this you will be able to claim your reward. You will get free Reward cards depending on the rank you hold when you claim your reward.

2 - End of Season Rewards

If you go to the Battle page you will see a countdown clock showing you when the current season ends. Each season lasts two weeks. At the end of a season each player receives a number of free Reward Cards depending on the highest league they achieved during that season. You don't have to maintain your position in that rank. For example, I've unlocked Silver III league last season which entitles me to 12 reward cards at the end of the season.

3 - Win Cards in Contests

There are several contests every day which you can enter and win new cards. Most of these contests are hosted here on PeakD. You can look for contests by scrolling through the trending posts using the Splinterlands hashtag.

You can also sometimes find contests running on YouTube. If you enter several contests per day you are bound to get a small trickle of extra free cards coming into your collection. Most of these contests will outright give you the card but sometimes you will win a delegation. If you win a delegation, someone will lend you a card or set of cards for a certain amount of time and then take the cards back. This can be useful to temporarily increase the strength of your deck. It often means that you will earn a higher rank than you could have gotten otherwise, which in turn means more daily and end-of-season reward cards. I have personally received about three free cards as well as some delegated cards in the past few weeks.

A special mention worth here is @clove71. When I just started playing Splinterlands, I discovered her on Twitch. She's an awesome streamer of Splinterlands. In her streams, she's hosting a lot of give-aways in which you can win FREE cards, dec and SPS. Probably that's the reason why people on Twitch are calling her 'SantaClove'.
You can check her out here:

SplinterlandsClove71
https://www.twitch.tv/splinterlandsclove71

4 - Affiliate Referrals

Splinterlands has an referral program which rewards users who sign up new players. This is tracked through the use of a referral link. You will earn 5% commission on every verified purchase your referral spends in the game, including the initial $10 starter pack. For each person buying the starter kit using your referral link you will earn about 50 cents worth of credits. If someone that you referred decides to buy a $4 booster pack you will get 20 cents worth of credits. If one of your referrals buys $200 worth of booster packs you will get $10 worth of credits. Any rewards you earn through your affiliate link can be used to buy individual cards in the marketplace or booster packs from the shop. Of course you don't have to reinvest this revenue back into the game through buying cards. You can simply cash it out for your local currency on your preferred crypto exchange if that is your desire.

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P.S. Sign up for Splinterlands using my referral link above and leave a comment here letting me know. Once I have verified the referral I will send you some random common cards as a free gift. :)

5 - Tournaments

Every single day there are several tournaments running. The majority of these are free to join. The rewards vary but typically include free cards, booster packs and/or cryptocurrency. If you get cryptocurrency it is usually in the form of dec / SPS, which you can easily use to buy new individual cards or booster packs.

6 - Write Articles On PeakD
When you sign up to Splinterlands you will automatically get a Hive account. You can log into PeakD (or one of the alternate interfaces) and post blogs that will earn Hive cryptocurrency. This is how it works. First you make a post on PeakD, like the one you are currently reading. You will start to get upvotes on your post by people who enjoyed it. If you can promote your post on your Twitter, Facebook, etc... you will get more traffic to your post and potentially more upvotes. Seven days after you posted the article you will get paid out in cryptocurrency based on how many upvotes you got during that first week. You can then use that cryptocurrency to buy new cards.

Bonus Tip - Dark Energy Crystals
Dark Energy Crystals (DEC) is the name of the in-game currency for Splinterlands. If you're in the rank of Bronze II or higher, you'll earn dec for every game you play. This dec you can use aswell to buy some nice cards you want to improve your carddeck.

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