At the beginning of the next ranked play season starting this Thursday, February 27th, you'll find two major updates to Splinterlands: an entirely new game mode and upgraded league-based leaderboard rewards. Read on to learn all about em!
In addition to Modern and Wild, the Arena Games will feature a brand-spankin-new format of ranked play: Survival mode, complete with its own leaderboard and rewards for top contenders. In it, you can use any card from any set, as well as battle helpers and bots, just like in Wild. The difference? In Survival mode, battles don't consume energy. Instead, when your cards are defeated, they can't be used anywhere until their cooldown is over. And when I say anywhere, I mean anywhere: brawls, land, tournaments, other modes of ranked play—you name it. It's one-and-done, baby.
After the update, check out the Battle Lobby's Academy Panel for all the juicy details, including cooldown times by card foil and rarity. Survival mode definitely ain't for the faint of heart, but if you got the chops (and the cards!), the risk will be well worth the rewards.
You can read the original post announcing Survival Mode here. Note that we plan to release revival potions in a future update.
You asked for league-based leaderboards. And we heard you, so that's what we're giving you... and then some! All leagues above Wood will now have their own leaderboards, and we're expanding rewards to the top 100 contenders. What?! Yep. That ain't no typo. When a season ends, the top 100 players in every league above Wood will walk away with a fat bag of Glint. Cha-ching!
The leaderboard for which you'll be competing will be determined based on your rating at the start of each season, after the end of season reset is applied. You'll compete for that leaderboard for that entire season even if your rating falls above or below the normal range for that league during the season.
For example: a new season begins, and your rating resets to somewhere in Silver league. You compete for the Silver league leaderboard for the entire season. You scratch and claw your way to a rating of 3100, and rank at the very top of the leaderboard. You claim a honkin' pile of Glint. Bards spin tales of your triumphs. Throngs of beautiful women and chisel-chested men lust after you. When you look up "legend" in the dictionary, there's just a picture of you.
The following season, your rating resets to 2600 and you're placed in Gold league, where you compete for even more Glint, wilder tales, rowdier fans, and additional edits to the dictionary.
With great power comes great rewards. Glint for each rank on the league leaderboards—check it out:
| Rank | Champion | Diamond | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,000,000 | 500,000 | 250,000 | 150,000 | 100,000 |
| 2 | 750,000 | 400,000 | 200,000 | 100,000 | 75,000 |
| 3 | 500,000 | 300,000 | 150,000 | 75,000 | 50,000 |
| 4 | 350,000 | 200,000 | 100,000 | 50,000 | 25,000 |
| 5-10 | 350,000 | 200,000 | 100,000 | 50,000 | 25,000 |
| 11-25 | 250,000 | 150,000 | 50,000 | 25,000 | 12,500 |
| 26-50 | 150,000 | 100,000 | 25,000 | 12,500 | 10,000 |
| 51-75 | 100,000 | 50,000 | 12,500 | 6,250 | 5,000 |
| 76-100 | 50,000 | 25,000 | 6,250 | 3,125 | 2,500 |
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