I been busy but not busy enough to neglect increasing my Splinterlands deck. Above is a screenshot of some of my recent purchases. The screenshots themselves were taken from a site known as PeakMonsters. Those are just some of my most recent purchases. There are more that I haven't screenshoted. Most these purchases are gold cards from the Foundation set. I been purchasing but not combining. I left the fun of doing so for today. Lets go make some MAX Gold Cards. First we will start with the card showcased in the first image of this post > Sturdy Axe Warden > Common fire card. I need to pay more attention. Looks like I already have this one maxed. I now also have 10 additional level 3 copies. Lets check another. Looks like I have six Frankarsgard a Common fire unit. Let's turn those six copies into one MAX copy with a spare level 3 for good measure.
That was fun but we won't stop there - we need more maxed cards in our collection. Lets keep looking to see what we can find. Next up is Codex Sage a Common life unit. We have five of these units with one already being at level 4. Meaning we need to combine two more level 3's into the level 4 we already have to make a MAX copy. It takes just five copies of a common gold card to make a MAX level Foundation card. Lets get to combining :) these cards aren't going to MAX themselves. As I typed that I am reminded of a post I did sometime back. The one were I kept fumbling my card count as I attempted to max the card known as Dread Tafarian. You can read that fun outcome here: Combining gold cards (And fumbling my count). After maxing our Codex Sage we will have a look at the current ongoing presale of the collection known as Escalation. We will max Dread Tafarian in a future post. Heck Yeah - Lets Go!
Escalation Presale:
Portia Nyr thought she could tear Praetoria apart while the major powers licked their wounds. She was almost right. The rebellion left Praetoria's kingdoms broken. But the Conclave Arcana's hunt has grown too dangerous to ignore. Valleys flood, time fractures, and the land screams.Ready or not, the major powers must act.
PRESALE PROMOS
Every pack purchased during the presale period earns progress toward amazing promo cards! Each earned card has a 4% chance to be Gold Foil upon claim, with every 25th card being a guaranteed Gold Foil! You can claim promo cards when the set officially releases on February 24th, 2026. Promo cards received are level 1. Rare cards require 115 copies for max level. Legendaries require 11 copies for max level.
Earn amazing rewards based on your presale pack purchases. Place in the top 6 (of the presale leaderboard), and you'll get to name one of the Archon cards rewarded to players at the end of each Conflict... and a 1 of 1 skin of your Archon! Every pack purchased during the presale scores a ticket for Escalation’s launch-day fortune draw! You’ll have a chance to win some of the rarest cards in Splinterlands history, including Gold Foils, Black Foils, and arcane variants of both promo cards. Pack cost 350 SPS/ 5000 Credits/ 5000 DEC. Check the SPS markets before purchase. At current time its the best bang for your buck. 5000 credits = $5.00 USD.
Foil Types
Below is a still screenshoted image of the foil types. Still images don't do this artwork justice. Visit the official Splinterlands webpage and navigate to the Shop > Escalation page to see the animated versions of these amazing cards. My ambassador code that will take you to the official Splinterlands site: https://splinterlands.com/register?ref=rentmoney
Presale details displayed in this post have been taken directly from the Escalation presale page found on the official Splinterlands site. Sources for the images displayed are linked throughout the post. Each Escalation pack contains five cards with one of those cards guaranteed to be rare or better. No financial advice was given in this post. As always we appreciate you visiting the 
