🔮 Conclave Arcana Pre-Sale: My thoughts and game plan

The Conclave Arcana pre-sale has officially kicked off, and as of the time of writing this will last for only 6 more days.

With all of us Summoners preparing for battle and the Splinterlands world unfolding before us, the team dropped some prompts for this week community engagement challenge which I have talked about previously and you can find here: conclave arcana presale engagement thoughts

💡 Challenge Prompts:

• What are you most excited about with the release of Conclave Arcana?
• Any card art, lore teasers, or abilities you're hoping to see?
• How do you think this set will impact your personal strategy?

So I figured I'd dive into those right here and share my take.

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🧙‍♂️ What I'm Most Excited About

Last time I mentioned the different abilities that were coming and how excited I was to see these types of changes being added to the game, I do think it would of been easy for the team to keep the cards and abilities as is without adding anything new and just re-use the existing abilities, so I am still very excited to see these in game.

Today however I want to rather talk about some of the spoilers we have seen.

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💭 Cards I'm excited to see

With Chaos legion we had a boast to ranged units provided to life via - General Sloan along with a good amount of ranged units that could benefit.
With Rebellion we got Prophet Rosa a water archon and Risqruel Drath the duel fire/earth archon.

So I am very happy to see the death splinter get a turn, also a bunch of the set spoilers for death have included ranged units, combined with the ranged death units from rebellion and Razi is looking quite strong.

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Leolin looks to me like a great card, the high hp and armor mean she could be a great tank or secondary tank and combined with those abilities are very scary. You also have to then factor in the life Archons that she will be used with:

• Bella (new life archon), will give deflect meaning leolin takes 0 damage from Corrosive Ward, Magic Reflect, Thorns, Return Fire, and Blast splash damage
• Elias, gives armor + damage, and can give Armored Strike = scary
• Tofu, gives thorns + hp, and you can decide on Corrosive Ward or Scavenge and Triage to keep your backline safe.

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Finally I wanted to mention Virid Venomancer, I love the shield ward ability and can see this card sitting just behind the tank giving him shield can be great, with her high HP, she can fill the roll of backup tank or target for enemies with snipe very well.

Paired with either of the existing Rebellion tanks, Endless ape or Lioceros, and she is another card I am excited to add to my lineup.

✨ My Personal Strategy

With all the changes introduced with Conclave Arcana, I’ve been thinking carefully about how I want to approach things—from the pre-sale all the way through to in-game tactics. Here's how I’m planning to play it smart: but what are your thoughts? Share them in the comments below.

👁️‍🗨️ Pre-Sale Strategy

My main goal during the pre-sale was to reach the legendary promo minion. As I like both presale promo cards and am taking part in my first presale, I set myself the goal of getting a few copies of Arcane Skinwalker and at least 1 copy of Gramel the Hunger. After my recent pay I am happy to say I have achieved this goal 😍

Along the way, I have also picked up 4 Mage Wagons this is a nice bonus, I’m especially excited for since I didn’t take part in the earlier Conflict events. This pre-sale feels like a good chance to get involved and potentially win some other great assets in the coming months.

👁️‍🗨️ Set Preparation

As we move closer to the new set release, I have started shifting my focus to Rebellion cards. Since I primarily play in Modern and Chaos Legion is rotating out, I do not think I have the cards to properly compete in Wild yet so I need to work on future-proofing my collection.

I’m trying to scoop up as many of the Reward cards as I can and level them up before they also rotate out, as well as looking to grab a few Rebellion cards as and when I can—ideally leveling them up and getting more familiar with them. I will also continue watching the spoiler(eye candy) channel to see what cards are coming in Conclave Arcana and trying to figure out gameplay strategies and also which new and Rebellion cards that can synergize well with them.

Final Thoughts

I am very very happy to have reached the goal I set myself in the presale, I have still some DEC and now need to decide if I should push higher on the leaderboard or if I wait for presale to be over and grab some of the new starter packs, as I will need to bolster my lineup quickly.

Until next time, keep battling, keep grinding, keep growing!

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