It's been a while since I wrote about Spliterlands. Yesterday I listened to the recording of Splinterlands Town Hall, and there it was revealed the first new use case for VOUCHERS.
The team has hinted about new use cases for vouchers for a while, and about this particular one - using them for promo cards - as well.
Even in their description on site it says:
Use vouchers to participate in special promotions!
So it didn't come as a surprise, in my opinion.
The first promo card that will be able to be purchased with VOUCHERS or SPS only is Waka Spiritblade, a fully-developed GF summoner from the Death splinter, using 3 mana and adding the Poison ability to all friendly cards.
That's a card many crave for, but there are only 1000 printed, 500 sold in game and 500 on WAX. Looks scary too!
The price is hinted to be in the hundreds of VOUCHERS or thousands of SPS. How many hundreds or thousands, that remains to be seen.
I love the Noxious Fumes ruleset and poison in general.
It's a completely different strategy when having a summoner adding poison ability, because in most cases the opponent doesn't have it, so you can take full advantage of that.
Obviously I WANT this promo card!
However, I have to keep in mind a few aspects.
On Splinterlands my main focus right now should be to improve my CL deck and to continue to build up my SPS. Depending on the price of Waka Spiritblade, attempting to purchase it (with so much demand little is guaranteed) might hinder these goals.
On Hive in general, my main goals this year are to increase my Hive Power and HBD, with clear and complicated targets to achieve at the year end. I've been using VOUCHERS to help with those targets, and I don't regret it. One has to have main targets, and not everything should go back to Splinterlands as reinvestments.
That being said, I still want Waka Spiritblade, I just need to see if it makes sense for me to attempt buying it. On the secondary market the prices will be prohibitive, so it's either now or never.