Rise of a new Splinterlands Guild!
Guild Cartel!
On Feb26, 2022, I wrote this post about me joining the Shield of Glory guild. I started with the guild in June 2021. At the time it was a level 8 guild. I wrote a bit of the early history on that post, so no point repeating that. Fast forward to present day: We are now a series of three guilds:
- Shield of Glory
- Aegis of Glory
- Guardians of Glory
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As of the time of this writing, all three guilds are Level 10. All three are in the top 15. Addition of the last two are a fairly recent development and quite successful. Thanks of my active guild mates 
Vision
We are a fairly open and democratic guild. So, I don't want to put my personal vision into the guilds, as this is neither official not vetted. Also this is not exactly the vision of SOG guild rather my personal vision of guilds in general. So, please take that into account. Also this is not something that I have a clear thought about, or something that is set is stone, rather this is an evolving thought process.
For a while I am of the opinion for few basic items regarding Splinterlands guilds:
- Guilds are like professional soccer, or football or baseball clubs
- They are effectively businesses; sometimes profitable, other times not
- Just like any professional clubs, it consists of players, sometimes very valuable players
- Players can join, leave; in future can be bought/sold, just like any professional drafts
- Guilds, which are clubs, can similarly be bought/sold
- There are owners and managers of the guilds
- Guilds have value, players have value: monetary value
The Splinterland game is evolving, and we have yet to establish a earning mechanism for the guild itself, but trust me, that will come. Currently with the SPS rewards for brawls, guild participation has never been more lucrative. With the termination of DEC rewards and return of DEC value to the peg, leveling up guilds are now expensive. In fact, Luis and I leveled up Guardians of Glory to Level 10 the night before the termination of DEC rewards announcement, and subsequent rally to the price of DEC. We congratulated each other, that we dodged a bullet!
Why 3 Guilds?
Most top Splinterlands guilds have multiple feeder guilds. Some of them are around for a long time. For all practical purposes, compared to them, at least I consider ourselves newcomers and amatuers! Yes, I like to be humble.
If you look at the vision and performance of the individual guilds of our cartel, you can observe that Shield of Glory is the main and oldest guild; and consists of players who like to do competitive brawl battles and rank quite high both in the Wild and Modern format, typically majority of them finish in the Champion League. Guardian of Glory is the next tier, and has lots of good players, but some who plays excellent at lower leagues. Aegis of Glory, is the laid back and relaxed place, chill and cool kids dwell there!
This is the status right now. We are open for new and interesting players. We encourage card ownership. I almost want to say, we 'require' card ownership, but these days rentals are cheap and quite effective, so I know quite a few players who are quite effective in renting cards and battle. However, I personally think, it requires quite a lot of skill to do that.
I think the future of brawl and guild as a business is quite bright. If you have any ideas please feel free to share them in the comments. I will be at Las Vegas for the Splinterfest, so if you are there please feel free to reach out and say hello. I love to talk to people about the game or about your neighbor or whatever that in in your mind :)
As you can see, we are mostly full, but if you are interested, please contact Luis
Magic | xSuiLx ✨#9169