Having started to write some gaming blogs recently, I came across a lot of people writing about Splinterlands on here. After having played a fair amount of physical Magic: The Gathering in my past, and various online collectible card games a bit more recently, I decided to check it out. 

Having dabbled a bit in cryptocurrency, I managed to scrape together $10 in ETH and picked up the Spellbook. But, I'm going to try to limit myself to that being my only purchase with funds outside the game - and, to see how far along I can get under those restrictions. I can still enter contests for free cards and spend any DEC earned in game to not make it impossible!

Here's my brand new account. Even before the transaction went through, a couple of the friendly people on the Splinterland Discord channel sent me over a couple gifts! (I had been asking question on there earlier in the day).

I consider myself -decent- at strategy games, having been good enough to make it into Pro Tour events back in my MTG days, but not good enough to actually do well at them. That was a few years back now, but we'll see how those skills have held up and will translate over to Splinterlands. I'll post another update on how things have gone after I actually play a bit, but I expect most of my gaming time will be over the weekend.