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I will probably get about an hour a day's play out of this account at most, so a true casual approach to the game.
Day 1 - Welcome to Waur Medge Academy
I'll be honest, I've done the campaign a couple of times so i skipped a lot of the cut scenes and battles so saved a bit of time but if you haven't then make sure you watch the scenes and learn from the battles as they are an enjoyable look at Praetoria. Either way the campaign is not going to take a whole day to get through Book 1.
The rewards from the campaign now come as soulbound (non tradeable cards) but that's fine, I haven't decided whether I will combine them yet or just leave them as mementos of the campaign once I have tradeable replacements.
The end of the campaign gives you 42 cards including 5 Archons, a great start to the Splinterlands adventure.
Time to put what you have just learnt to good use with the first few battles, day 1 i will probably only get through about 10 battles after doing the campaign.
Ok, so i made it through 12 battles and got my first 2 non soulbound cards as a reward.
At the end of day 1 we sit with $0 invested and cards with, according to peakmonsters, an account with $0.02 value in cards - although this is not about making money its about progressing in the game. I haven't purchased the spell book as yet to give me a chance to just play in Frontier before we complicate things in Modern, so I will need to play 88 more games in Frontier before modern opens up as an option anyway.
Lets see where Day 2 takes us.