Weekly Splinterlands Community Engagement Challenge: Exploring the Upcoming Release of Conclave Arcana!

My initial plan was to just burn 2 weeks worth of SPS unstaking or about 270K SPS, however, a few days ago I also added to that another 149,000 SPS which I purchased with fiat at 0.0115. I'm already up a fair bit on that so that's great. This caused my plan to shift from burning about 270K to burning 415K SPS. To be honest I wish I did not have to burn any of mu SPS but I want to participate in the CA presale and subsequently play with the cards more than I currently value my staked SPS. I've got to note that I've been accumulating SPS for 3 years and this is the first time I'm "spending" any of it. In this case it's not really spending - I'm just converting one type SPL asset into another. Hopefully 2 things will happen - SPS will keep going up as the presale approaches and during it and we hit 2.5C-3C or even 4C - who knows, and second the presale won't sell out instantly, so that will give me time to acquire more of the SPS I'll be unstaking. I want to spend 4.4M DEC on the presale (or more depending on the price of SPS and DEC) so I get max copies of both promo cards. As for the types of packs I'll be shooting for, I might actually go with the whole amount spent on Legendary packs. I'm still not sure about that. Ofc, 4.4M is basically about 30% of what needs to be spent if you want to secure a fully maxed collection on day 1. I'll be stretching myself massively even coming up with that so maxing the deck after that will be a very long (and probably expensive) process.

He's a 3-mana Epic Card and he is a Dwarf (a Bloodline we have a rare Archon (summoner) for). At level 1 he has 2 Melee Attack, 3 Speed, 7 Armor and 4 Health. He also starts with 1 Ability and 1 Debilitation. The Debilitation is Incendiary and the Ability is Charge. At level 2 he gains an additional point of Melee Attack for a total of 3. Then at level 3 he gains the Piercing ability as well as an extra point of Health for a total of 5. At level 4 his Melee Attack gets upped to a total of 4 and his HP is also increased by 1 point for a total of 6. Next at level 5 he gets yet another point of Melee Attach for a total of 5 as well as an additional point of Armor for a total of 8. Finally at max level, he has 5 Melee Attack, 3 Speed, 8 Armor and 7 HP but more importantly he also gains his last ability - Bloodlust. I don't think you need me to tell you that this card is pretty bonkers, and I've also had the pleasure to play with it from day 1 of testing, and it actually got nerfed pretty quickly. :D So, imagine how much more bonkers it initially was. I really like the card and I think he's really fun for low-mana and Little League battles.

The Auroral Elemental is another Epic card from the new set. She (?) is of the Elemental bloodline (no interaction in the game yet? for it) and is a 5-mana Melee Attacker. At level 1 she starts off with 1 Melee Attack, 2 Speed, 4 Armor and 4 HP as well as the Reach Ability. At level 2 she gains an extra point of Melee Attack for a total of 2. At level 3 she actually loses a point in the Armor section and drops down to 3, however, she gains her 2nd ability which is Protect. Then at level 4 she gains back her 1 point of Armor and the base is brought back to 4. At level 5 she gains one more point of Melee Attack for a total of 3. She also gains 1 Speed for a total of 3. She also gains her final ability - Enfeeble. Finally at level 6 she has 4 Melee Attack, 3 Speed, 4 Armor and 4 HP. While this card does not necessarily shine, she does seem to be a pretty decent off-tank. Her Protect ability could turn out to be pretty useful in combination with other abilities which take advantage of the extra Armor she provides.

Bren Paleswron is a 6-mana Legendary Neutral card with a dual-attack - Ranged and Melee. Don't let the stick figure placeholder fool you - he's a human (as seen in his actual artwork above). At level 1 he starts off with 1 Melee Attack, 2 Ranged Attack, 3 Speed, 0 Armor and 4 HP as well as 2 abilities - Sneak and Shapeshift

As you can see even though he's a human, he's actually counted as all possible bloodlines due to this newly introduced ability. That's pretty big for obvious reasons. At level 2 he gains an additional ability - Weapons Training. This is the first Weapons Trainer with a dual-attack which means... yeah.. he grants a Melee and a Ranged attack to adjacent units with no attack. At level 3 he gains an additional point of Melee Attack for a total of 2 and 1 more HP for a total of 5. Finally at level 4 he has 3 Melee Attack, 2 Ranged Attack, 3 Speed, 0 Armor and 5 HP. He also gains one more ability- True Strike. He's a very interesting card for more than one reason. We'll see how he'll fit in the upcoming CA meta.

The Forked-Tongue Sage is a Rare card from the new set. He (?) is of the Saurian bloodline (no interaction in the game yet? for it). He's a 2-mana Magic Attacker. At level 1 he has 1 Magic Attack, 2 Speed, 0 Armor and 2 HP. He also has the Snipe ability. Being 2 mana, there's not much happening until the last level so I'll just skip ahead to level 8. At level 8 he has 2 Magic Attack, 4 Speed, 2 Armor and 6 HP. He also gains his 2nd ability - Magic Reflect. This is actually a pretty good unit for 2 mana, specifically for Little League and Magic Only rulesets as well as low-mana battles in general.

The Water Diviner is a Rare card from the new set. He is of the Gnome bloodline and there is a Gnome specific Archon to boost all Gnomes in the game. He's a 2-mana Magic Attacker. At level 1 he has 2 Magic Attack, 2 Speed, 0 Armor and 4 HP. He also has 1 Debilitation and 1 Ability - Electrified and Taunt. Being 2 mana, there's not much happening until the last level so I'll just skip ahead to level 8. At level 8 he has 4 Magic Attack, 3 Speed, 0 Armor and 7 HP. He also gains his 2nd ability - Stun. This is actually a very good unit for 2 mana, specifically for Little League and Magic Only rulesets as well as low-mana battles in general.