Increasing Card Levels by Combining Cards Guide
Combining cards to increase their levels is a key strategy in Splinterlands, in this way you are maximizing their effectiveness in battle as the cards increases stats or gain abilities in each level, if you want to do well in battle you will need this cards level up as much as possible as any level will give you an advantage.
Each rarity cards have a different amount of levels and cards required to combine to get to their next level:
Common have 10 levels and required a total of 400 cards to reach the maximum level:
Rares have 8 levels and requiered 115 cards to reach their maximum.
Epic have 6 levels and required a total of 46 cards to level up to reach this level.
Legendary have 4 levels and required a total of 11 cards to reach it.
How to Combine them
Go to Splinterlands and click on items:
you will see all your cards there , click on the one you want to combine and have several copies of it.
Select the cards you want to combine:
Them press the combine cards button
It will show you this confirmation screen where it show at what level will reach your combined cards:
Click combine and you have accomplish combining and level up your cards. Make sure you have combined exactly the amount needed for the level you wanted, most of the times your don´t want to combine extra cards.
If you have a lot of cards you can click the ALL button to select all the cards, click on combine, check if you are combined more than the necessary ones to level up the card, if is the case unselect the extra ones:
In this case I have one extra card so I should unselect one, as that extra card could have some others uses.
Benefits of Leveling Up Cards
Higher stats and new abilities: Level up cards are stronger than their previous level, they increases stats or gain a new ability on each level, you will need to level up them if you want to fight on a higher league.
Increases their Rental price: If you want to rent your card and earn DEC daily you will have to level up to a certain level, most level 1 cards are not possible to rent as there are hundreds of them going for the minimum price, Obviously they also increases their sell price.
Increases their Power and Production: they will produce more if you are using for land, have more power and have higher burn value(you can burn cards to obtain DEC, is always better to sell them but is slower)
Which Cards you Should Prioritize.
That will complete depend of what is your objective by level up the card, if is just owning the card and play with it, them the first card you should chose to level up is a Summoner you can´t play level up cards if your summoner is not level up, chose a cheap and good one.
Them you can chose some cards that can be used with the summoner(same color), definitely a good tank and some attackers, you can go and buy the rewards cards first as they are the cheapest cards.
After you have some cards of one color you can go to the next summoner.
Acquiring Extra Cards to Combine.
Getting them for Free: You can get cards for free , by spending the Glint you get in the battles on the Glint Shop.
Buying them: you can check the market and buy the cards going for the cheapest ones that are not necessary worse mostly the rewards cards or the ones that have more copies are the cheapest, you can also buy a maxed out card.
Getting on Packs: this will be a slow way to reach the maximum level but you can get cards on packs and combined them, you can go for a Cheap Chaos Legion pack or for A Rebellion one that is a lot expensive but it will remain more time to be able to play in the Modern format.
Getting them on Giveaways: participate on giveaways and get free cards, I currently making a giveaway weekly with around 10 winners per giveaway https://peakd.com/splinterlands/@caimanx/save-splinterlands-giveaway-28-10
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