I have been playing Splinterlands since October 2018. When I started to play, the Beta edition had just been introduced. Today, a bit more than 5 years later, we have a new card edition that is going live with Rebellion. In my career, I have played about 40'000 games just with my main account. So I would consider myself as an OG of the game...
The difficulty of dealing with a new collection
I normally play in diamond league and I'm close to champions in the Wild format. So a lot of the cards that I play with are fully developed. Whenever a new collection came out in the past, there was a similar feeling of being overwhelmed. It seems that with advancing age, this doesn't get any better. I struggled when Untamed came out and I struggled even more when Chaos legion was released.
Let's all agree that Splinterlands isn't an easy game to play. There are so many abilities, cards and options that it takes quite a lot of skill to be competitive. Now when I look at the rebellion cards, I feel overwhelmed like never before... It's not just the cards as such but there are some new abilities and mechanisms that I need to discover. The question I ask myself is if, after 5 years playing the game, I'm still ambitious enough to try to understand it. Seems I'm getting old...
The problem I see is that if I don't go into rebellion, I will probably soon be outmatched in Wild and in Modern. There are some abilities that are game changers I believe. Also the fact that you have the tactic stage where you can define what ability a summoners gives, seems to be quite disturbing to me. I still don't get it yet and I will need to try things out.
My strategy for learning how to play rebellion
Since the game mechanics are literally changed with the new tactic stage, I will need to learn how to play rebellion and how to use the new abilities. Instead of purchasing cards, I will actually use one of my old alt accounts that has the Summoner Spellbook on it. Since Rebellion is now the basis edition of the game, on this account I have all the starter cards from rebellion.
I have an old account that I'm not playing anymore and this account has now all starter cards from rebellion that I can test in order to learn how to play with Rebellion
I can now play plenty of games with these starter cards in bronze to learn how it works with the summoners that have double abilities. I can get familiar with the new abilities, the cards and then decide which cards, which summoners I will need for my main deck.
What is your strategy to deal with the new edition?
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