During the most recent Town Hall (YouTube link), the team talked about land cards and mentioned a new resource coming to Splinterlands. The new resource will impact the game economy and card market, and I want to post all the information here for the followers of c/praetoria.
Splinterlands Resources
If you aren't already aware, Splinterlands has a few tokens and resources including: SPS, DEC, DEC-B (😬), vouchers, glint, grain, wood, stone, iron, aura, legendary potions, alchemy potions, midnight potions, guild power, energy, titles, totems, totem fragments, time crystals, auction marks, fortune tickets, wagons, wagon repair kits, frontier entries, oh yes...and credits. This is not an exhaustive list; I probably missed some but you get the gist.
This list is meant to be tongue-in-cheek and I mean no harm or ill will to the team. Just poking a little fun at this because the number of items in the game is comical at times.
Town Hall Updates - Land Cards and Cinder
In the Town Hall, the team confirmed that land cards are in active development and 
While talking about crafting land cards, the team said they are creating a new resource called cinder. This resource will only be obtainable by burning cards and will be required to craft land cards.
Image made with Chat GPT. Prompt: make a futuristic image of a factory where Splinterlands players burn Splinterlands cards and get cinder in return.
What is Cinder?
Here are two definitions of cinder that I like.
- A cinder is a small, hot, glowing coal from a fire.
- A small piece of partly burned coal or wood that has stopped giving off flames but still has combustible matter in it.
I like the part about cinder containing combustible matter. Perhaps they will write something into the lore about the combustion of cinder being used to magically create the new land cards.
Perhaps cinder will be connected in some way to the Cinder Elves lore?
Details from Dave
After the town hall, 
Hey
✨ we will be making the land cards in 4 different rarities - Common thru Legendary. All of them will require Cinder to be an ingredient.
The amount of Cinder produced by burning a card will be based on its Collection Power. So the Epics and Legendaries have more than the Commons and Rares, and the GFs have more than the RFs. The cards that are burned for Cinder though will NOT receive DEC, they will recieve CINDER.
So think of this as a choice:
I have a card and a) I can burn it for DEC or b) I can burn it for CINDER ... every player can make that choice on any card they own that is burnable for DEC now. Cards that are soulbound or have no CP or DEC burn value will not be able to create CINDER.
For me, this message is even more interesting than anything said in the town hall. It's interesting to know that land cards will be made four different rarites. This burning of cards to get cinder should have an impact on the card and land markets. How much of an impact remains to be seen, but I can imagine the floor price on cards might increase as a result of this change (not financial advice).
One concern I have, I hope they will let cinder be tradeable on the open market rather than soulbound. I feel that we have enough soulbound materials in the game already and I'd like to see most items and resources remain tradeable on the open market.
Your Thoughts?
What are your thoughts and first impressions about land cards and cinder? I don't care to speculate a lot but I'm curious what others think.
- Do you anticipate buying cards to burn for cinder or burning cards that you already have?
- Do you plan to buy or use any land cards?
- Will you buy land cards or try to make your own?
- How do you think this will impact the card market?
- Any guesses on how many cards will be burned for cinder?
Image made with Chat GPT. Prompt: Make a modern-style image of a facility or factory that burns Splinterlands cards and turns them into cinder.