Splinterlands: Inaugural Land Card Edition — Full Announcement & Technical Specification
Splinterlands: Inaugural Land Card Edition!
📘 Introduction
Splinterlands is excited to announce the inaugural Land Card Edition, a major expansion to Land gameplay that introduces new mechanics, new card types, and new resource sinks for the ecosystem. This proof-of-concept edition is designed to test player interest, balance, and economic impact before larger Land Card sets are released in the future.
This edition introduces:
- Cards crafted directly from Land resources
- Cards requiring Cinder, a new resource created by burning cards
- Cards designed exclusively for Land usage
- New Land-only abilities affecting production, efficiency, and worker management
- A new treasure-discovery mechanic: Labor’s Luck
Each rarity—Common, Rare, Epic, Legendary—has exactly one card in this initial edition.
📊 Mint Quantities
| Rarity | Total CC |
|---|---|
| Common | 100,000 |
| Rare | 18,000 |
| Epic | 6,000 |
| Legendary | 1,000 |
Crafting lasts up to 3 months, or until all copies are minted.
🧮 Allocation Rights
A random snapshot was taken on November 18th. It captured:
- Total Base PP staked on Land
- Each player’s proportional share
Based on this, players received Allocation Rights for each rarity.
- Allocation Rights are soulbound
- Valid for the first 3 days only
- Limit how many cards of each rarity can be crafted during the 3 day protected period
🏃 After 3 days, crafting becomes open to everyone on a first-come, first-served basis!
🔥 Cinder
Cinder is a new, non-transferable resource created by burning unlocked cards with DEC burn value.
Cinder = 1.5 × CP of the burned card
- Required for crafting all 4 Land Cards
- Soulbound cards and cards burnable only for Glint/Merits do not produce Cinder
Cinder introduces a long-term deflationary mechanic for cards.
🧩 Land Card Abilities
Bountiful Grain / Wood / Stone / Iron / Aura
Provides a production bonus for worksites producing that resource.
Toil and Kin
Provides a production bonus if one of your workers has the matching Bloodline.
Dark Discount
Reduces the amount of DEC required to stake for the plot to reach 100% efficiency.
Energized
Acts as a replacement for a Power Core.
Rationing
Reduces the amount of grain consumed on plot harvest.
Labor’s Luck
Chance of discovering a GF, GFA, BF, or BFA Land Card during plot harvest.
This is the only way to obtain these foil variants aside from market purchases.
Only Regular Foil cards are craftable.
Same Abilities Don’t Stack
Example 1:
If you have Rationing -10% and Rationing -25%, only the stronger effect (-25%) applies.
Example 2:
If you have Bountiful Grain +3% and +15%, only +15% applies.
Example 3:
If Toil and Kin (Elf) +10% is present and you have multiple Elf workers, you receive a single +10% bonus.
Example 4:
Toil and Kin (Elf) +10% and Bountiful Grain +10% are different abilities and stack for a +20% total (if producing grain).
Example 5:
Toil and Kin (Elf) +10% and Toil and Kin (Mundane Beast) +5% stack because they target different bloodlines (and thus are considered different abilities), giving a +15% total.
🍀 Labor’s Luck — More Detail
Labor’s Luck will work like a totem fragment roll, similar to how it’s described in the Land whitepaper:
https://splinterlands.gitbook.io/the-secret-of-praetoria/resource-production/totem-fragments
The bonus for Castles and Keeps does not apply.
The percent chance is not 0.0007% per 1,000 base PP per hour.
The exact percentage will be set one week after the feature goes live - upon the first cards being crafted.
This percentage will vary depending on the production power and the number cards with the Labor’s Luck ability.
The team will reset the percentage on an estimated monthly basis.
The intention is that the Labor’s Luck bucket lasts for roughly one year, although this depends on randomness and overall Land production.
🍀 Labor's Luck Bucket
| Foil Type | Common | Rare | Epic | Legendary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gold Foil (GF) | 380 | 220 | 100 | 40 |
| Black Foil (BF) | 10 | 7 | 5 | 3 |
| Gold Foil Arcane | 10 | 7 | 5 | 3 |
| Black Foil Arcane | 7 | 5 | 3 | 1 |
| Total | 407 | 239 | 113 | 47 |
Total hidden treasures: 806 premium foil cards.
🧩 Odds and Ends
Golden Overcap Rule
Land cards do not contribute PP beyond the 100k base PP cap. However, their abilities remain active even when the PP cap is reached.
This gives capped plots meaningful use for their remaining worker slots. For example, if a plot already has a 100k PP Alpha GFL card, a Land Card placed in another slot will not add PP but will add its abilities.
🛠️ Land Card Usage
Land Cards:
- Cannot be used in Ranked, Brawls, or Tournaments
- Do not have combat stats
- Function exclusively as Land workers and require a worker slot
*They are NOT able to be used in the Conflicts.
⚡ Enhanced Base Production Power
| Rarity | RF | GF | BF | GFA | BFA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Legendary | 3,000 | 12,500 | 25,000 | 12,500 | 25,000 |
| Epic | 2,500 | 7,500 | 15,000 | 7,500 | 15,000 |
| Rare | 2,200 | 5,000 | 10,000 | 5,000 | 10,000 |
| Common | 2,000 | 2,500 | 5,000 | 2,500 | 5,000 |
💧 Common Card Stats — Water
| Level | CC | Cost ($) | Bountiful Grain | Energized | Rationing | Dark Discount | Labor’s Luck |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 0.50 | +1% | — | — | — | — |
| 2 | 5 | 2.50 | +3% | — | — | — | — |
| 3 | 14 | 7 | +5% | Yes | -10% | — | — |
| 4 | 30 | 15 | +10% | Yes | -15% | — | — |
| 5 | 60 | 30 | +15% | Yes | -20% | -50% | — |
| 6 | 100 | 50 | +20% | Yes | -25% | -50% | — |
| 7 | 150 | 75 | +30% | Yes | -30% | -50% | — |
| 8 | 220 | 110 | +40% | Yes | -30% | -50% | — |
| 9 | 300 | 150 | +50% | Yes | -30% | -50% | — |
| 10 | 400 | 200 | +60% | Yes | -30% | -50% | Yes |
🌿 Rare Card Stats — Earth
| Level | CC | Cost ($) | Dark Discount | Toil & Kin (Elf) | Bountiful Wood | Energized | Labor’s Luck |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 2.50 | -5% | +5% | — | — | — |
| 2 | 5 | 12.50 | -10% | +7% | +10% | Yes | — |
| 3 | 14 | 35 | -20% | +10% | +20% | Yes | — |
| 4 | 25 | 62.50 | -50% | +15% | +30% | Yes | — |
| 5 | 40 | 100 | -70% | +20% | +40% | Yes | — |
| 6 | 60 | 150 | -85% | +25% | +50% | Yes | — |
| 7 | 85 | 212.50 | -99% | +30% | +60% | Yes | — |
| 8 | 115 | 287.50 | -99% | +30% | +70% | Yes | Yes |
✨ Epic Card Stats — Life
Note: Grain and Stone cannot be produced at the same time.
| Level | CC | Cost ($) | Toil & Kin (Mundane Beast) | Dark Discount | Bountiful Grain | Bountiful Stone | Labor’s Luck |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 7.5 | +5% | -15% | +5% | — | — |
| 2 | 4 | 30 | +7% | -40% | +15% | — | — |
| 3 | 10 | 75 | +10% | -60% | +30% | — | — |
| 4 | 20 | 150 | +15% | -60% | +50% | — | — |
| 5 | 32 | 240 | +20% | -70% | +70% | +65% | — |
| 6 | 46 | 345 | +25% | -80% | +80% | +85% | Yes |
☠️ Legendary Card Stats — Death
Note: Iron and Aura cannot be produced at the same time.
| Level | CC | Cost ($) | Bountiful Iron | Dark Discount | Toil & Kin (Undead) | Bountiful Aura | Labor’s Luck |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 50 | +25% | -70% | +15 | — | — |
| 2 | 3 | 150 | +50% | -80% | +20% | — | — |
| 3 | 6 | 300 | +80% | -90% | +30% | +75% | — |
| 4 | 11 | 550 | +100% | -99% | +30% | +100% | Yes |
🧮 Estimated Crafting Costs
| Rarity | 1 CC Resource | 1 CC Cinder | 1 CC Cost ($) | Max Copy Resource | Max Copy Cinder | Max Cost ($) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Common | 20k Grain | 375 | $0.50 | 8M Grain | 150k | $200 |
| Rare | 30k Wood | 1875 | $2.50 | 3.45M Wood | 215,625 | $287.50 |
| Epic | 7500 Aura / 15k Stone / 50k Grain | 5625 | $7.50 | 345k Aura / 690k Stone / 2.3M Grain | 258,750 | $345 |
| Legendary | 50k Aura / 40k Iron | 37,500 | $50 | 550k Aura / 440k Iron | 412,500 | $550 |
🔥 Total Possible Resources Burned (Max)
| Rarity | 1 CC Resource | 1 CC Cinder | Total Copies | Total Resources | DEC & USD Value | Total Cinder |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Common | 20k Grain | 375 | 100,000 | 2B Grain | 25M DEC | 37.5M |
| Rare | 30k Wood | 1875 | 18,000 | 540M Wood | 22.5M DEC | 33.75M |
| Epic | 7500 Aura / 15k Stone / 50k Grain | 5625 | 6,000 | 45M Aura / 90M Stone / 300M Grain | $11,250 + 7.2M DEC + 4M DEC | 33.75M |
| Legendary | 50k Aura / 40k Iron | 37,500 | 1,000 | 50M Aura / 40M Iron | $12,500 + 12.6M DEC | 37.5M |
| Totals | 2.3B Grain 540M Wood 90M Stone 40M Iron 95M Aura | $23,750 29m Grain 22.5m Wood 7.2m Stone 12.6m Iron | 142.5M |
🏁 Conclusion
The Inaugural Land Card Edition introduces new Land-specific gameplay, new resource sinks, a deflationary burn mechanic through Cinder, new abilities, and a treasure-based foil discovery system. This edition forms the foundation for future Land Card expansions and deeper Land strategy across the Splinterlands ecosystem.