Getting started in Splinterlands can be confusing for new players. It's important to familiarize yourself with league limitations and how "ghost" cards work, which are basic cards that players get when they start. In Rookie and Bronze leagues, your main focus should be acquiring level 1 monster cards and upgrading your summoners. Here are some basic strategies to get you off to a successful start.
General Strategy:
Priority: Don't focus on leveling up monsters at the beginning. Instead, focus on accumulating more powerful summoners.
Useful Cards: Monsters like Furious Chicken and Creeping Ooze are essential for their abilities and low cost, ideal for the early stages of the game.
- Team build: Place melee monsters in the front, mages in the middle (since they can attack from any position), and ranged monsters in the back.
Strategies for Splinter:
Fire Splinter:
- Fire is one of the strongest Splinters in lower leagues, especially when using ghost cards.
- Recommended summoners: Pyre for speed or Malric Inferno in a melee monster build.
- Useful cards: Living Lava (tank), Fineas Rage, Cerebrus.
Water Splinter:
- Water Splinter is weaker in Rookie and Bronze III leagues, but can improve in higher leagues with magic cards.
- Recommended summoner: Alric Stormbringer to boost magic damage.
- Useful cards: Sea Monster (tank with healing), Crustacean King.
Earth Splinter:
- Earth is one of the strongest Splinters early on, especially with the combination of summoners like Scarred Llama Mage.
- Recommended summoner: Mylor Crowling to reflect melee damage.
- Useful cards: Flesh Golem (self-healing), Wood Nymph (tanking healing).
Life Splinter:
- Life is a versatile Splinter that focuses on armor, healing, and sneak attacks.
- Useful cards: Shieldbearer (rearguard protection), Armorsmith (armor repair), Silvershield Assassin.
Death Splinter:
- This Splinter is weak at first, but can become strong thanks to its summoners that counter different types of attacks.
- Recommended Summoner: Zintar Mortalis to reduce enemy melee damage.
- Useful Cards: Haunted Spirit (tank with healing), Twisted Jester.
Dragon Splinter:
- Dragon is very versatile and offers flexibility in team building.
- Recommended Summoner: Daria Dragonscale to increase melee damage.
- Useful Cards: Fire Spitter, Manticore.
Buying and Renting Recommendations:
- Prioritize upgrading your summoners before purchasing higher level monsters. For lower leagues, it is not necessary to have monsters or summoners above the recommended levels.
Here is a list of the cards I would buy:
- Splinter-fire Fire Beetle
- Splinter-fire Ettin Spearman
- Spliner-water Sea Monster
- Spliner-water Sea Genie
- Splinter-earth Wood Nymph
- Splinter-earth Screeching Vulture
- Splinter-life Silvershield Sheriff
- Splinter-death Undead Rexx
- Splinter-death Grim Reaper
- Splinter-dragon Serpentine Mystic
- Splinter-dragon Gloridax Soldier
- Splinter-neutral Furious Chicken
- Splinter-neutral Creeping Ooze
Here is a list of the ones I would rent:
- Splinter-fire Cerberus
- Splinter-fire Lord of Fire
- Splinter-fire Yodin Zaku
- Spliner-water Water Elemental
- Spliner-water Ruler of the Seas
- Spliner-water Valnamor
- Splinter-earth Flesh Golem
- Splinter-earth Kron the Undying
- Splinter-earth Scarred Llama Mage
- Splinter-life Armorsmith
- Splinter-life Air Elemental
- Splinter-life Divine Healer
- Splinter-death Haunted Spirit
- Splinter-death Undead Archer
- Splinter-death Twisted Jester
- Splinter-dragon Fire Spitter
- Splinter-dragon Manticore
- Splinter-dragon Delwyn Dragonscale
- Splinter-neutral Chain Golem
- Splinter-neutral Cornealus
- Splinter-neutral Spirit Miner
- Splinter-neutral Centaur