So you already made an account on Splinterlands.

You've bought a spellbook, and you're ready to battle and reach the higher leagues to collect tokens and high-value cards.

But you noticed, it's hard to win cause you still have no idea about the game.

You've been fighting on the battles without knowing the fundamentals

Here in this post, we'll talk about the basics of the game that every new player in Splinterlands should know.

First of all, before we talk about building a deck with a high win rate.

let's discuss first the cards here in Splinterlands.

All cards in Splinterlands are divided into two categories

there are 'Summoner Cards' and 'Monster Cards'

Summoner Cards represents different elements like fire, water, earth, life, death, dragon, and neutral

Each summoner card provides monsters with buff like increased damage, magic, armor boost, and more

Choosing a summoner and its specific buff is one important part of every match

Okay now, let's look into 'Monster Cards'

There are three types of 'Monster Cards' Melee, Ranger, Magic

Melee cards can only attack if it's in the front line.

Unless it has an ability that allows it to attack a card on the backline like this Sneak Ability

On the other hand, range cards can attack from the backline but if it falls on the front line it can't attack anymore

Magic cards are like range cards. It can attack from the backline

But the difference is it can attack even if it's in the front line

It can directly damage the health of the enemy card and ignore the shield of the opponent

Maybe you're thinking, then just use magical monster cards all the time?

but that won't work, since every fight has a different set of rules

Sometimes there's a rule that only Melee or only range cards can be used, or all magic monster cards can be banned

So we need our deck to be diversified, but maybe we'll talk about that in another video

For now, let's look at the different parts of the cards and how to identify them

So what is the meaning of the numbers in the cards?

Let's identify them one by one

The number on the upper left represents its mana cost. Every match there's a maximum amount of mana that you can use.

The number on the right that's inside the heart, It represents the health points.

When it drops to zero, the card will be eliminated from the match

The number on the bottom left represents speed. The turn order of the cards depends on the speed of each card on the match.

This is also important since if your card is fast, you can easily eliminate your opponent's card before they take action.

The saw icon on the top of it, represents the melee damage of the card

So it differs if it's ranged or magic, If it is ranged, its icon is a target, and if it is magic, its icon is a purple smoke

Now you have a basic understanding of the cards

let us talk about the different ways to acquire extra cards

Actually, you will acquire free cards when you buy a spellbook

But honestly, they can't carry you to higher ranks

Expanding your card collection

is the major key to make your rank and win rate higher

There are three ways to get cards

1 -  By buying packs

There are packs for sale in-game

You can use credits or DEC tokens that you can acquire in-game to buy these

So to get a higher chance to pull for rare or gold foil cards, you need to have potions

But I don't suggest buying them because you can easily obtain them via daily chest.

2 - Buying at the market

This is the built-in market that you can see in-game

Here, you can buy cards and also sell them if you ever acquire a high-value card that you want to convert into tokens

You can search here if you know what you are looking for, and there is also a filter to help you search for something easier

3 - Daily/Season Chest Rewards

You can earn chest by completing the daily quest or in season-ender chests and when you climb up to higher leagues, you will acquire more chests

It can contain cards, card packs, DEC tokens, or potions, It will appear randomly.

if you're lucky, Gold foil or legendary cards might appear

You can also level up your cards by combining identical cards

While increasing the level of your cards, the more identical cards you need to level them up more

There are different bonus stat given per level depending on the card.

Take note, Your summoner cards also need to level up so you can use high-level monster cards

To combine cards, go to your card and select the "combine cards" icon

Collecting cards and leveling them up is a great way of getting your power rating higher

And the power rating is important so you can access higher leagues and get more rewards

So I hope this video helped you gain basic understandings

About the cards and what are the different ways to acquire them

In my next video about Splinterlands, I'll talk about the cards you could buy or rent so you can make a high winning rate deck

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