This week's Splinterlands Community Engagement Challenge theme is "Conclave Favorites." The idea is to have players of this web3 card-style game share their favorite card from the Conclave Arcana set with the rest of the community, identifying the factors that led them to that decision.
In my case, the card I chose to talk about a little more was Yaba's Pickle. I believe it has the funniest lore in all of Splinterlands, with some very random details that make it unique and stand out. Furthermore, if you analyze the card's stats closely, you'll see a strong connection to the lore and art. Come learn more about Yaba's Pickle! (LOL)
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The Funniest Lore of Splinterlands!
The lore begins seriously, with Riklauniman Adrin'eth arriving to warn Yabanius, who is a representation of one of the founders of Splinterlands, Yababapmatt, of a serious problem that had occurred. This is almost symbolic of what should happen in the day-to-day life of the company that develops Splinterlands: when there is a problem, the person in charge is immediately notified.
However, before the warning could continue, the conversation was interrupted because Yabanius was hiding something. He tried to change the subject, saying he was doing Arcane Research, but what he was hiding was a pickle wearing the same outfit he—the wizard Yabanius—wore. The pickle, in addition to the outfit, had two eyes and a cut symbolizing a mouth, which was quite amusing, given that the great wizard was "playing" with a pickle, something completely unexpected.
Yabanius then tries to say that Pickles was actually a highly advanced espionage tool, capable of misleading and confusing enemies, but Riklauniman Adrin'eth quickly realizes that's not the case and slowly starts to walk away, lol. All this out-of-the-box lore is one of the things that makes Yaba's Pickle a very different card from the others.
Yaba's Pickle Stats x Lore
After analyzing the Yaba's Pickle lore, which closely relates to Yabanius himself, you might start to see the stats of this promo card in a different light. The lore made something obvious clear, but sometimes the obvious needs to be stated: Yaba's Pickle is just a normal pickle. With that, it makes perfect sense that a pickle doesn't have any type of attack, which is why the card has absolutely no attack, but this allows it to be used with weapons training, which is quite interesting, but it doesn't make much sense to have an attack anyway lol.
Furthermore, the 1 armor makes perfect sense, because the lore says that Yabanius put a mini version of his suit on Pickles, so we can assume the pickle has strong armor, granting 1 armor. Finally, I think the card's HP and Speed are quite random, and the low Speed makes sense since a Pickle isn't expected to be fast. One last point is that it's a golem type, which makes perfect sense because Yabanius created it.
Yaba's Pickle Spooky Skin
Another interesting detail about this card is that even though it's a new promotional card, it ended up being quite successful during its pre-sale, selling many copies to players. Its own sales event, called Yabanius's Pickle Factory, was quite special, referencing the lore in which the wizard creates Yaba's Pickle, with direct sales of the card and some raffles. But beyond that, I believe all this success stems in part from the fact that it's a reference to one of the game's creators, which led the developers and designers to include a version of Yaba's Pickle in the Halloween version of the 13 Halloween skins.
The Spooky version of Yaba's Pickle is literally called Spooky Yaba's Pickle, costing only 500 glint, just like the other Common rarity cards included in these Halloween skins. For those who already own this card, having a different skin is a lot of fun, especially since the cost is quite low compared to other rarities, like the Legendary, where the Spooky skin costs 20,000 glint.
