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I Just Became A Playable Card | Splinterlands #500

20 Dec 2025 3 minute read 0 comments mercurial9

Splinterlands dropped a new update this week and I didn't see coming at all. They announced Avatars & Exemplars. Avatars come with full RPG customization. Race, gender, hair, facial features, clothing, accessories, backgrounds, frames, badges. And I...

SPS Market Analysis Dec 12 – Dec 18 2025 | Splinterlands #499

19 Dec 2025 3 minute read 0 comments mercurial9

SPS closed the week at $0.00606910, down 4.6% from the Dec 12 open at $0.00636248. But the real story this week is the price dropped below $0.00600 for the first time in months, hitting $0.00595916 before barely clawing back above the psychological s...

I Built A 12-mana Lineup That Should've Lost (But Didn't) | Splinterlands #498

15 Dec 2025 3 minute read 0 comments mercurial9

In low mana cap battles, you are making a desperate gamble with whatever monster fits under the limit. Most of the time, it is a coin flip. You pray your opponent picked something silly, or you get lucky with a dodge. But sometimes, you can engineer...

SPS Market Analysis Dec 5 – Dec 11 2025 | Splinterlands #497

13 Dec 2025 3 minute read 0 comments mercurial9

SPS closed the week at $0.00640876, down 3.66% from the Dec 5 open at $0.00652717. Another slow grind lower that's been playing out for months. The range between $0.00630 support and $0.00660 resistance is tightening week after week, and the chart st...

Equalizer Modifier Is Broken | Splinterlands #496

5 Dec 2025 3 minute read 0 comments mercurial9

Look, I have been playing Splinterlands for a while now. And for the longest time, Equalizer was that modifier where I would just wing it. Throw some tanky cards in there and hope for the best. Big mistake. Then I actually sat down and studied what h...

SPS Market Analysis Nov 28 – Dec 4 2025 | Splinterlands #495

5 Dec 2025 3 minute read 0 comments mercurial9

SPS closed the week at $0.00650249, up a 0.8% from the Nov 28 open. The range between $0.00620 support and $0.00680 resistance is now entering week four, and honestly? I'm tired of writing the same analysis. Price bounced exactly where it's supposed...

The Week The Tractor Finally Died | DeFi Journey #39

30 Nov 2025 3 minute read 0 comments mercurial9

This week's yield chart is literally just empty space. Exactly $0.00 fees farmed across every single LP pool. First time since this DeFi journey started. And the thing is, nothing dramatic happened on-chain, with markets drifting further out of range...

How Scavenger Taught Me To Be Grateful | Splinterlands #494

29 Nov 2025 3 minute read 0 comments mercurial9

This week's Community Challenge is about gratitude, and moments that make Splinterlands meaningful. And honestly? I'm grateful for abilities like Scavenger that teach you to appreciate the journey, not just the destination. Sometimes it's about appre...

SPS Market Analysis Nov 21 – Nov 27 2025 | Splinterlands #493

28 Nov 2025 3 minute read 0 comments mercurial9

Here's the thing about consolidation, it looks calm on the surface, but underneath there's a tension (not the good kind). It feels more like exhaustion of dealing with the crypto market the past week. SPS spent this past week trapped in a narrow rang...

Waiting | DeFi Journey #38

23 Nov 2025 2 minute read 0 comments mercurial9

Week 38 felt heavier than usual. No surprises, no new positions, no crypto market rebounds, no shift in market structure, just more pain across the board. And that sums up where we are: two month period of a liquidity-starved market, with sentiment s...