Hey Splinterlands fans and players, welcome back to my Splinterlands blog! These are exciting times for sure as a Battle Mage because the new Conclave Arcana reward set and new reward system has just been released, that's something we don't get every day!

It's awesome with so many new cards, rewards and ways to earn so this deserves its own post and I bet this weeks Community Engagement Challenge will be about covering this topic, so... more on that later this week!

Today it's time to make a post to participate in this weeks Social Media Challenge, which is the same as last weeks:

🔥 Share Your Most Remarkable Splinterlands Moments: Do you possess a battle of epic proportions that deserves to be seen by all? Have you crafted something extraordinary within the Splinterlands realm? Maybe you've got profound thoughts, insights, or strategies related to stats, cards, abilities, or gameplay that are waiting to be shared? We want it all, and we want it to be nothing short of AMAZING!

To find out how you can participate in this challenge yourself, check out the official Splinterlands post here.

There’s no shortage of exciting moments in the world of Praetoria, new cards, new rewards, new rule sets... and now we're getting close to Halloween we have a themed rule set for the first time - Hallows Fall!

Yes, you're right in thinking EVERY card with the Bloodlust ability is pretty crazy and I had a very nice idea I wanted to test out since I already love the synergy between an Archon and a Monster from the Rebellion reward set having devastating attacks, image this including Bloodlust so it gets stronger and stronger - with it's Piercing ability he's virtually unstoppable... yes... I'm talking about Commander Slade, led by Elias Max Pruitt!

Before I go and share the battle, let's take a closer look at the Bloodlust ability for the newer players in our awesome community:

So, in case you don't know you can look up information about every ability or ruleset on the Splinterlands support page, Bloodlust has it's own page, explaining everything in detail so I'm not going to copy that, it's there and I can't explain it better than the game makers 🙂

The Blood Moon ruleset however gives EVERYONE the Bloodlust ability, so how to best deal with that?

• Don't play any monsters with very low Health Points for easy kills giving your opponent an advantage.
• The Taunt ability can work in your favor so your opponent can't get those fast kills right at the start.
• Playing monsters with the Opportunity ability can help, targeting the small monsters IF your opponent plays any.
• The Dispel ability resets the Bloodlust.

Sharing a battle

Except for all the crazy new updates this week, this battle was the most exciting for me this week so I saved it to share in one of my posts, so here we are. 🙂

The battle I saved to share for this post is a 32 mana Modern League, Now You See Me / Blood Moon battle with the Death and Dragons splinters locked out, both rulesets are pretty new and this combination makes it interesting since we can only attack the unit in the first position since the rest is camouflaged. In the previous battles I could see my opponent has max level cards so I knew I would be starting with a big disadvantage, but I have a cool idea!