Splinterlands brings us a special, 5 year anniversary, token burning event called ‘The Great Burning’. This event will give players an opportunity to burn DEC tokens and earn rewards in the process!

It’s been five years since Splinterlands first sold their Alpha packs on the Steem network. And to celebrate they are bringing us a special event known as The Great Burning! The event will start on Tuesday, May 30th, 2023 and it will run for 30 days, ending on June 29th, 2023 and allow players to burn DEC tokens via a special page on the Splinterlands website.

The Burninating

Burned tokens must be submitted via the official webpage! Don’t try to manually burn the tokens yourself — you won’t get any credit for this event by doing so. And in an interesting twist, players actually earn more points for contributing earlier! The first day, all tokens burned will be worth three points. After that, their value decreases daily until tokens are worth only one point on the final day.
Splinterlands plans to give away prizes to those who earn the most points from the burn. There will be prizes for the top 200 on the leaderboard at the end.

1 – “The Burninator” Legendary Title + 1 Tract

2 – “The Burninator” Legendary Title + 50 Plots

3 – “The Burninator” Legendary Title + 50 Plots

4 – “The Burninator” Legendary Title + 25 Plots

5 – “The Burninator” Legendary Title + 25 Plots

6 – “The Burninator” Legendary Title + 25 Plots

7 – “The Burninator” Legendary Title + 25 Plots

8 – “The Burninator” Legendary Title + 10 Plots

9 – “The Burninator” Legendary Title + 10 Plots

10 – “The Burninator” Legendary Title + 10 Plots

11 – 60 – “The Incinerator” Epic Title

61 – 200 – “The Scorcher” Rare Title

potential prizes from the raffle
There will also be a raffle available to all. Everyone receives one raffle entry for every 10K DEC or DEC-B (DEC Batteries) they burn during the event. At the end, there will be a raffle for a number of prizes, including land plots, and even Alpha and Beta packs!

The prizes for the raffle are as follows:

Land Plot (200 total available)
Alpha Pack (100 total available)
Beta Pack (250 total available)
Untamed Pack (500 total available)
Nightmare Pack (1000 total available)
Riftwatchers Pack (1000 total available)
Runi (25 total available)
In addition, all DEC burned during this event will be converted into Guild Power. This will be used in an upcoming update that will revamp guilds and guild buildings. Guild Power is attached to a player, and can even be taken with them when they leave the guild! We should learn more about this feature and guild updates in the near future.

Burn, Tokens, Burn!

Splinterlands has been desperately trying to find enough token burn opportunities to bring DEC value back to the expected 1 cent (0.001 USD) pen token. From pack sales to the the DEC Batteries to promo cards to land surveying and more! Unfortunately, despite all of these efforts, this seems to be a slow, grinding effort. DEC value still hovers below 0.0008 USD. Up quite a bit from the lows last year and trending upwards — but oh so slowly. And doubly unfortunate, having DEC at or above its expected peg is an important part of the SPS token ecosystem!

a good card… but not cheap!
And while the DEC Batteries sold out and the Land Surveying feature was very popular, the latest promo card sale, Zyriel, is not faring so well. The price point for this cards is quite high — $80 retail, but can be reduced to $40 by using VOUCHERS. Only about a third of the total supply of 15,000 have sold, and unless you are buying in bulk or want to take a roll at landing a gold foil, prices for Zyriel on the secondary market are around $36 — cheaper than buying from the sale! Now, the sale is only open until the end of May, so once the supply is limited, we may see a value increase. But, as a token burning mechanism, the Zyriel sale was not much of a success.

So you have to wonder if there isn’t some player fatigue for these sales. Hopefully this burn event won’t show any similar fatigue! Reports have it that there are about 6-7 billion tokens on HIVE, and a number of tokens on the Binance Chain as well. So there is still a lot of burning to do!

To learn more about Splinterlands, read our game guide. You can also visit their website, follow them on Twitter, and join their Discord server.

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It started on the Steem blockchain as Steemmonsters but eventually switched to the Hive blockchain. Thanks to cross-chain functionality, cards and tokens can also be traded on the Ethereum blockchain and on Wax. Splinterlands now has a governance token called SPS.

About Splinterlands

Splinterlands is a unique digital trading card game that allows players to truly own their cards and other in-game assets. Thanks to web 3.0 technology powered by the HIVE blockchain, each card in Splinterlands is a non-fungible token (NFT) owned by a player. That means players can do anything they want with their cards, including battling for rewards, holding them as collectibles, trading on the peer-to-peer market, combining to level up, or even burning to obtain Dark Energy Crystals (DEC), which is the official in-game cryptocurrency of Splinterlands.
The game was founded by blockchain innovators who shared a mutual frustration with mainstream digital trading card games that stemmed from players losing ownership of their assets when trading card games went digital. The companies who actually own the cards that players are supposed to “own” themselves can withhold information, reprint cards as often as they’d like, or even wholly delete a player’s collection based on inactivity or a violation of terms. Through the power of blockchain, Splinterlands solves these problems by making digital trading cards transparent, scarce, and actually owned by the players who own them.
With hundreds of unique cards, Splinterlands is a brilliantly designed and fast-paced trading card game that allows its players to earn by playing (P2E). Unlike more traditional TCGs like Magic: The Gathering, and Pokemon, Splinterlands battles are fast, with each match taking only 2-3 minutes. Rather than turn-based action in which every move is carefully and slowly controlled, Splinterlands’ main mechanic is a drafting style. Once an opponent is found, each player assembles a team of up to 6 cards from their Splinterlands collection. Then according to a unique set of rules that make every match different, the battle is played out automatically in a quick, action-packed format that allows players to learn from both victory and defeat.
Splinterlands is a strategist’s dream, beloved by one of the largest and most loyal followings in the play-to-earn industry. It is translated into nearly a dozen languages and played in over 100 countries worldwide. Each day, thousands of cards are traded for thousands of dollars on the peer 2 peer monster market. Join the fight at Splinterlands.com

Splinterlands is a cross between a deck-building game and an auto-battler. Players use their cards to create a combat lineup based on the rules of the match. Then, once both sides submit their teams, the cards battle it out until only one team remains. Players earn Dark Energy Crystals when winning matches and can also earn additional cards and other rewards through Daily Quests and a recurring, two-week leaderboard contest.

Players combine cards to level them up for better stats and additional abilities. Cards come in both regular versions and rarer, gold foil versions. Splinterlands features its own in-game market and allows for buying, selling, and even leasing cards!

Learn to Play

While it’s easy enough at first to jump right in and give Splinterlands a try, the strategy runs deep, and equipping yourself with the skills to win will take at least a small amount of basic learning.

Official Tutorial

You’ll find the game’s detailed explanation, as well as the playable tutorial experience in the HOW TO PLAY section of the Splinterlands website.

Challenging and Practice Matches

Another great way to put your skills to the test is by extending a challenge to a specific player, by selecting the Challenge option on the battle screen. Here you will be able to select the player whom you would like to challenge as well as set the level limits and cards to be used for the challenge.

By selecting the Practice option from the main battle screen you will be able to practice your skillset in unranked matches. This will help you to familiarise yourself with the battle selection process as well as experiment with battle strategies in a neutral environment that does not affect your rank.
Note that both Challenge and Practice matches will be considered Wild battles.

Watching Battles

One of the best ways to learn to play is by watching the battles of other more experienced players.
You can easily watch the battles of any player from the BATTLE page. By clicking the TOP BATTLES tab, you’ll be able to see the highest-ranked battles in the currently selected League of play. You can also enter the name of a specific player in the search bar to check out their most recent battles.

Top battles can be viewed in either Wild or Modern battle formats by selecting either format on the top of the Battle Screen.
Additionally, you can click on any player’s name on this page to see their profile and individual statistics. By clicking on the scroll circled in the image below, you’ll be able to watch that player’s battles.

Strategy Posts

On Splintertalk.io you’ll find all the latest Splinterlands-related content from the entire Hive Splinterlands tribe. Check this regularly and you’ll find valuable strategy posts, in-depth analyses of seasons, tournament rundowns, and more.

Splinterlands Discord

The official Splinterlands community can always be found in Discord. There is almost always someone in the community or one of the helpful moderators ready to answer your questions, and if you have technical issues, you can bring them up in the #tech-support channel of the Discord server.

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