Splinterlands is an auto-battler. You must select a team that will go head-to-head with your opponent. The mana cap, modifiers, usable Elements, and abilities available to your units are known before the match begins. Employ critical thinking, strategy, intuition, and a bit of luck to build your team and face your opponents on the battlefield!
Review the Gameplay Guide and Tutorial In-Game
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New Player Guide: Getting Started provides an overview of the Modern and Wild formats and discusses renting vs. purchasing cards.
Review Rentable Game Changers for suggestions regarding rentals.
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New Player Guide: Gameplay provides an introduction to battling and tips about strategy.
Review Common Teams: Strategies and Counters for tips about strategy.
Review Archon Unit Restrictions to ensure that your archon is able to call forth the desired abilities from your Units.
Modern, Wild & Survival are the formats currently available for play. Wild & Survival Formats allows the use of all cards, while Modern utilizes the 2 most recent sets. Modern is generally recommended to new players.