George Tsagkarakis
In Brief:
- Splinterlands (official site) added three battle rulesets in its Nov. 10 weekly release: Chain Reaction, Live and Let Die and Plague Rot.
- Visions of Verico holders can buy a five-year renewal of alteration drops for 10,000 Credits or DEC, or 10 USDC, until the end of the year.
- Extra edition cards are now exempt from Modern bracket minimum level caps, and low-mana matches will come up more often.
Splinterlands added three new battle rulesets and opened a renewal pre-sale for Visions of Verico alteration drops in its weekly release, dated Nov. 10 in the game’s official release notes.
“Three brand-new battle rulesets are joining the game this week!” the @splinterlands SPS $0.003722 ▼ -5.6% account said in a post on X. “We also have an important Alterations Renewal Pre-sale for Visions of Verico collectors, Modern gameplay adjustments, and several improvements to the Non-Card Market.”
📢 Weekly Release Is Live! ⚔️Three brand-new battle rulesets are joining the game this week! We also have an important Alterations Renewal Pre-sale for Visions of Verico collectors, Modern gameplay adjustments, and several improvements to the Non-Card Market. ✨
🎨 Alterations…
Three new rulesets
Chain Reaction punishes clustered lineups. According to the release notes, “When a unit dies, the adjacent units each take 2 physical damage.”
Live and Let Die switches off revival effects. “When this rule is in play, Rebirth, Resurgence, Resurrect, and Soul Siphon do not work,” the notes said.
Plague Rot flips healing-on-kill abilities into a penalty. Under that rule, “Life Leech and Scavenger reduce permanent Health instead of gain it,” the notes said.
Alterations renewal pre-sale
The pre-sale lets Visions of Verico owners extend their alteration drops by five years. The price is 10,000 Credits or DEC, or 10 USDC.
The sale runs until the end of the year. After that, the release notes said, “the price to extend Alteration claims past August 2027 will increase.” The notes didn’t give the new price.
Alteration is one of the land abilities that came with Visions of Verico. The team described it as granting a monthly skin airdrop and a chance at rare premium skins, starting Aug. 18, 2026.
Visions of Verico has 54 cards covering every bloodline, tied to Toil and Kin land production bonuses. The set went on sale as 250,000 packs at $2 each, with a 5% discount for DEC purchases.
Modern and matchmaking changes
Extra edition cards no longer count against the minimum level caps on Modern brackets.
The mana mix shifted as well. The chance of a low-mana match rose from 20% to 25%, and the chance of a high-mana match fell from 20% to 15%.
The patch also fixed a bug where Visions of Verico cards “could incorrectly be chosen for Survival cooldowns on a surrender.” And Mistwing now gets Snare at max level. Before this release it had no update at that level.
Non-Card Market fixes
Most of the market work deals with skins. Players can now activate or deactivate several skins at once from the Non-Card Market display, and that display now defaults to all sets instead of Modern sets only.
When a player buys a skin, the notification now links to the card details page where the skin can be activated. Pulling a skin listing off the market now updates the owned-skins list without a browser refresh.
The release also added community-made stickers in the Artisan Quarter. It fixed a display bug where the Exemplar card didn’t show its mana in red when the cost went over the remaining mana available.
Background
The update follows the Nov. 3 launch of the Starlight Foundation Set, 36 Frontier cards sold in Sky, Stellar and Cosmic packs. Buying a pack takes both a drop earned from daily missions and Credits.
That launch left a loose end, which the team hotfixed before this week’s release went live: buying a spellbook and picking a name broke the use of Starlight drops earned while on a lite account.
