Let’s Speculate – What will the new Splinterlands cards edition be like?

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The beta edition of the Splinterlands cards is almost sold out! Only 20% remaining. There is a lot of talk what will happened after they are sold out. Some say there will be a certain period without any new cards printed out and then the new edition will be released.

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The thing is Splinterlands/Steemmonsters already had a similar transition like this. From Alpha to Beta edition. Here I will take a look what happened then and based on that make some prediction for the next edition.

Alpha to Beta Transition

Here what happened when the Beta edition cards was introduced:

  • All the exciting Alpha cards got Beta version
  • New summoners introduced (legendary and epic)
  • Neutral monsters introduced
  • Triple quantity

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The Alpha edition of cards didn’t had neutral monsters. With the beta edition, neutral monsters were introduced.

Furthermore, new summoners were introduced. The Alpha edition only had the rare summoners and Selenia Sky as a legendary dragon summoner. In the Beta edition we got the Epic and Legendary summoners for each element.

On the quantity side I believe the Alpha edition had 300k packs and the Beta edition has 900k packs. So this is an triple increase in the quantity.

The New Cards Edition (Standard?)

Based on the transition from Alpha to Beta edition I’m speculating the following:

  • All the Beta cards will have a new standard version
  • New common summoners will be introduced for each element
  • All the neutral monsters will get a standard version
  • Triple Quantity

So yes. More or less a similar transition as from Alpha to Beta.
All the exciting cards, including the neutrals will get a new standard version.

The key thing here is the speculation on new common summoners for each element. I’m guessing this because if you take a closer look you will see that there are no common summers at the moment, except for the promo dragon magic summoner.

All the cards have common, rare, epic and legendary rarity. It is logical for the summoners to have all the rarity types as well. I’m quite sure that new common summoners will be introduced. Summoners are key to the game. No summoner and you can’t play. Also, the price of them is keep going up and for a lot of users they are the main obstacle to climb the leagues. Upgrading them is costly. With common summoners introduced that will be cheaper a lot of players can try their luck in the higher league.

What ability will these summoners had is a different question? Will they have any abilities/buffs at all?

On the quantity side I’m also guessing that It will triple or more. So at least 2,7 million packs for the next edition.

Except for the very likely introduction of new summoners there may be some other new cards introduced, but I doubt it.

New edition like this will be great and it will not decrease the value of the current cards. To spice things up for the Beta edition they may introduce bonus DEC earned, similar as for the Alpha edition now. Lets say 2%. Tournaments for the Beta cards only as well.

Any thoughts?

All the best
@dalz



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You need to own more BEER (6 BEER allows you to send 1 BEER per day)

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I agree with you analysis it's also going to be so hard to want to hold on to DEC because everyone will want these new cards.

I'm hoping they introduce more summoners and perhaps another summoner that can be won instead of just having to buy them all the time

I'm trying to store as much DEC as I can because as it gets burned they could be worth more and allow me to buy even more cards and better cards

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Yep ... reward summoner would be nice :)
I just cant hold the DEC ... spending it all the time and buying cards ... hope will continue to earned in nice amounts :)

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All the Beta cards will have a new standard version

That is not what will happen. It would destroy the prices of all cards if they print them ever again and they know that and regret their decision to keep the same cards in the Beta as in the Alpha. There will be an ENTIRE new set and no Beta card (or Alpha) that is available now will ever be printed again. All cards will be different and work on them own. But obviously people will have to get some of the old cards from the market to be able to play the best combos.

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Thanks for the info .... The post is a speculation by it self and based on what happend before, as explained.

Do you have some confirmation by the SM team about the new edition? That it will be a totaly different cards? That will make the game even more complicated as well since there will be so many different cards to chose and use.

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Yes, the founders have specifically stated that in the Maverick's forum on Discord. I imagine that there will be more cards than in Magic The Gathering or Hearthstone one day. We are still far away from that. You are right, there will be many more to pick from and hence more to know for players, who want to get very high up the ladder. I don't think it will negatively impact the game though in any way. And most people will never be able to afford the old cards anyways, as prices are already through the roof, so they will only see the new cards in their collection. Early investors and players will have a much larger variety of cards but also come with more experience.

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