#Splinterlands has been running for a few years now, and I just keep being blown away by their advances, [growth](https://peakd.com/splinterlands/@splinterlands/splinterlands-new-account-growth-is-through-the-roof), and just how many elements they're rolling into the game. Whether you want to [play-to-earn](https://peakd.com/splinterlands/@splinterlands/play2earn-splinterlands), join a top-ranked guild and climb to the top of the leaderboards, earning epic rewards along the way... **OR** you want to invest a bunch of money and just sit back & watch it grow without playing the game, through renting cards, the SPS airdrop, and the gradual value increase of deflationary tokens... **Splinterlands has got you covered.** As someone who has played **Magic: The Gathering** for decades, and enjoyed dozens of other card games (both digital & physical), Splinterlands is definitely one of, if not **the**, most exciting. It's so exciting to me because it's crypto-based, because it offers true e-sports like potential to any player, because it is so community-oriented, and much of the content community-sourced. It's exciting to me that things like pull rates are **hard-coded** in, and that with the launch of [SPS](https://sps.splinterlands.com/), the game is only heading in a more community, co-created direction! --- ## How to get started: 1. Go to [https://splinterlands.com?ref=kennysgaminglife](https://splinterlands.com?ref=kennysgaminglife) *(My referral link)* 2. Create an account - or link your already existing Hive account. 2a. At this point you can play the game, using a bunch of basic freebie cards. You cannot play ranked, earn DEC/win, join a guild, etc. You're basically playing the demo. 3. Buy the **Summoner's Spellbook** for $10 *(basically like buying the game)*, and you now have full access to what Splinterlands has to offer 4. Buy [packs](https://splinterlands.com/?p=shop&tab=dice) from the store, [rent cards](https://peakmonsters.com/rentals) on the market, or [buy the cards you want](https://splinterlands.com/?p=market&tab=cards). 5. Join a [guild](https://splinterlands.com/?p=guilds), enter [events](https://splinterlands.com/?p=tournaments), and revel in victory *(hopefully)* 6. Enjoy content from the [Splinterlands community](https://peakd.com/c/hive-13323/created), create your own, and [enter some contests](https://peakd.com/hive-13323/@splinterlands/splinterlands-art-contest-week-146-15-booster-pack-prize). ##### Basically, if you buy the "Summoner's Spellbook," then spend a few thousand DEC on renting some decent cards, you can be up in the Silver rankings within a couple days of starting the game - for now at least :-P --- --- ## Some Fun Facts When the game launched, their Alpha packs were $2 each - they currently trade for ~$55 The #Untamed packs (the most recent set to sell out) were also $2 each, until they sold out a month ago. They now trade for ~$6. The game generates upwards of 600,000 Hive Blockchain transactions PER DAY. **This is literally one of the most used dApps in existence!** --- --- ## Recent Big News for Splinterlands [Here is everything about Splintershards (SPS)](https://sps.splinterlands.com/), the Splinterlands governance token. [Here is the announcement of the **Land** expansion](https://peakd.com/splinterlands/@splinterlands/splinterlands-land-expansion-details) - Pre-sale is sold out, you can get plots on [Hive-Engine](https://hive-engine.com), or wait for the full release. *Put simply, plots of land are a DeFi Yield Farming tool, with each plot generating some form & amount of resource tokens, which will then be used to craft other cards & spells.* Daily new account creations have [already more than doubled](https://peakd.com/splinterlands/@splinterlands/splinterlands-new-account-growth-is-through-the-roof) since February of this year. *MarketSquare.io* named Splinterlands their [Game of the Month](https://marketsquare.io/projects/marketsquare/blog/splinterlands-is-our-game-of-the-month-july-2021) for July 2021 About 3 weeks ago, [Splinterlands was banned from Twitter](https://peakd.com/splinterlands/@splinterlands/permanent-twitter-suspension-what-does-that-even-mean). Though it was later reversed, it actually stirred up a good bit of attention :-) --- --- # Here's that referral link one more time: [https://splinterlands.com/?ref=kennysgaminglife](https://splinterlands.com/?ref=kennysgaminglife)

Hello beautiful humans! Today I'd like to start off by introducing you to someone that I feel honored to call a friend. Now, this guy has [128k fans on ReverbNation](https://www.reverbnation.com/illuminaticongo), [109k on Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/illuminaticongo/?hl=en), [107k followers on FB](https://www.facebook.com/ILLumiNatiCongo), [20.5k monthly listens on Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/artist/1lmNbeKCDXV9C86TwWmbdu), [27k followers on YT](https://www.youtube.com/user/illuminaticongo), and thousands on Twitter, Soundcloud, and others. On LBRY? 53. Come on people! I'm talking about @illuminaticongo! Please, stop here and go take a moment to [subscribe to his channel](https://odysee.com/@Illuminaticongo:c). He's an amazing Hip Hop / Reggae musician, Evolution & Ascension Specialist (my term), writer, Crypto-head, yogi, who happens to be quite bullish on Hive. Now, imagine if he was getting love here like he does other places? He's already been posting about blockchain social media back on the mainstream ones... maybe we can give him a lot more reason to talk about us :-) # Head over to the Hive blog post to see this full article (too much embedding for Odysee): https://peakd.com/hive-150329/@kennyskitchen/imghtcki