Exploring the Splinterlands Card Anatomy

There was already an article that explains the basic anatomy of cards before but as the game continues to evolve, that article has became outdated and may only result confusion for new players. So I find it necessary to have an updated card anatomy which is based on Rebellion which is the newest card set that is available in the game and can be break down in to 9 different parts.

1. Rarity
   

   The rarity of the card tells the difficulty of acquiring the card in packs or chest. The rarer the card is, the more difficult they are to get but at the same time, this makes for a higher collection power and price appreciation for the card. The rarity of the card also tells how many copies of the card was needed in order to have a max level card with the rarer card requiring less copies to max.

   Rarity	Copies to Max (RF)	Copies to Max (GF)
   Common	400	38
   Rare	115	22
   Epic	46	10
   Legendary	11	4

   
   

2. Mana Cost
   

   Mana cost is the price that a summoner or unit needs to consume in order for them to be able to use in battles. Each battles goes with random mana cap and the combined mana cost between the summoners and units cannot be above the mana cap which makes different considerations on what cards to use.

   
   ^{On this battle, it says that the combined mana cost of the cards should not go above 56.}

3. Element
   

   Each cards, whether it was a summoner or unit has their own element. It does not bring any advantage or disadvantage to the game but when choosing your lineup, you can only use units with the same element as your summoner unless it was neutral units. There are some exceptions though such as when using dragon and Neutral summoners. Some cards also posses dual-element cards that enables them to be used along with other elements.

   
   

4. Stats
   

   Card stats indicates the number of speed, health, armor and damage which are present on each units. There are several factors which may affect the stats of the card such as the level of the card, the summoner used and the abilities of the cards that are present to the lineup. When it comes to damage there where three attack types which are:

   Melee	May only attack at the first position without the use of ability or ruleset and will strike armor first before it can damage the health of the target.
   Range	Range can attack in any position except for the first position without the use of ability or ruleset and will strike armor first before it can damage the health of the target.
   Magic	Magic can attack at any position and can directly damage the targets health unless the with the use of ability or ruleset.

   
   

5. Card Name
   

   Each card also have their names which makes it easier for them to find specially when looking for cards in the market.
   
   

6. Abilities
   

   Aside from their stats, each cards posses abilities which they can use to boost the stats of their team, provide support to ally units or give status debuff on the opponent. Summoners also bestow abilities to boost their team or make the opponent team weaker. Currently, there are 89 abilities that are present in the game.

   
   ^{Source: Splintercards}

7. Set Icon
   

   With the past card sets, the only way that you can know which set they belong was through their card frames but with the most recent card sets in modern, set icons were included in the card to make it easier to distinguish them with other sets. The set icon for Chaos Legion was located at the top of the card while the set icon for Rebellion was located in the bottom- right of the card. You can also notice that there are difference to the color of the icon which can tell whether they belong to the core set, mini set, promo or a rewards card.

   
   

8. Level
   

   Each card has levels on them which upon leveling up, will unlock more of the cards abilities and stats and to level the cards, it needs to be combined with a similar card. once the card was combined it cannot be reverted. The level that is needed to level a card also depends on their rarity. During battles, the level of which you can use your units will be capped by the level of your summoner so even if you have max level units, if you only have your summoner at gold level then you can only use their abilities up to gold.

   Rarity	Level to Max
   Common	10
   Rare	8
   Epic	6
   Legendary	4

   
   

9. Experience
   

   Experience is just a visual indicator to know how far you are before you can max your card.

   

   

   Closing

   As the game continues to evolve, I believe that having an updated guide for the card anatomy is very important to help new players to understand the game easier. While that wasn't here, I hope that this post will serve to better understand the anatomy of the cards.

   Thank you and see you on the next post!

   

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   Card abilities and rulesets from Splintercards

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