I know I'm a bit late sharing my thoughts on this but better to do it now then never. Soon Splinterlands will get a new mode called survival mode. They want to release this by end of the year but from what I heard it probably won't be out until early 2025. In this mode, contrary to the name of the mode it's not really about stayin' alive but more about utilizing cards efficiently. Cards will have a cooldown period after use and it varies depending on the rarity and on being gold foil or not. There will be potions to revive cards which will remove the cooldown of the cards from survival mode. They will have SPS rewards for this mode. I don't think this mode will need energy since cards will be going on cooldown. They also said that glintz could come into the equation once they see how the rewards work to reward glintz fairly.

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Honestly, I love the idea but I'm just worried about the execution. I've been in Splinterlands for almost three years now and execution hasn't been the best. I think survival mode will give use cases for owning more than one copy of a card at max level. I think there are some cards that are better at certain levels and this mode will be able to showcase it.

I think this mode will be super advantageous for those that have a big collection. Depending on the rewards, this mode could bring more demand for cards and that will hopefully bring card prices up as well. With new players coming in, I think this mode will also be a place for them to shine because they don't have to be worried about playing against max level cards every time. They will actually have a fighting chance in this mode.

This mode has a lot of potential and there's many things that can be done with it. They can havet themes for the survival mode where maybe only certain elements can be used. If this is successful, it could introduce other modes in the future. Maybe there can be some events where you can choose team water or team earth and then you can only use cards from that element to fight against other players. Then the winning team would get better rewards and it would scale down based on the contribution of points from each participating team member so it would be fair. The possibilities are endless.

Thank you for reading and supporting me. How do you feel about survival mode? Is this the way?

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