# Battle Ruleset Updates ![](https://i.imgur.com/iS9WHOK.png) The Splinterlands team is planning to roll out some significant changes to the rulesets in battles in the upcoming release this Tuesday, January 24th, 2023. The primary change is that **up to three rulesets may be active at the same time** in Gold league and higher ranked battles, as well as all Tournament and Guild Brawl battles. Previously, only two rulesets could be active for a battle. By increasing that to three it opens up exponentially more new and interesting combinations that players will need to navigate in order to crush their opponent. The chances of getting 1, 2, or 3 rulesets, as well as chances of getting the "Standard" ruleset in each league is shown below: - **Bronze** - 75% chance of 1 ruleset / 25% chance of “Standard” ruleset - **Silver** - 75% chance of 2 rulesets / 20% chance of 1 ruleset / 5% chance of “Standard” ruleset - **Gold+ / Tournament / Brawl** - 75% chance of 3 rulesets / 15% chance of 2 rulesets / 8% chance of 1 ruleset / 2% chance of “Standard” ruleset Additionally, we have reworked the methodology by which the rulesets can be chosen. In the past, the rulesets were grouped into one of two categories - primary or secondary - as well as an "any" category. A maximum of one primary ruleset and one secondary ruleset could be chosen for any battle which significantly limited the possible ruleset combinations. With the change to 3 rulesets we have completely removed the categories and now any rulesets can be combined with any other rulesets except for specific exclusions to prevent certain incompatible combinations. This will open up a whole bunch of really interesting new ruleset combinations that were not possible before. For example you could have a Back to Basics, Equal Opportunity, Unprotected battle where all monsters lose their base abilities, gain the Opportunity ability, and don't have any armor. Or you could have a Broken Arrows, Even Stevens, Taking Sides battle where you can only choose monsters that do not have a Ranged attack, have even Mana cost, and are not Neutral. The full list of all of the current rulesets in the game are shown in the table at the bottom of this post including what "type" of ruleset it is and the list of incompatible rulesets and ruleset types for each. ## Two New Rulesets With this change we will also be releasing the following two new rulesets: - Going the Distance - Only Monsters with Ranged attack may be used. - Wands Out - Only Monsters with Magic attack may be used. These will round out the attack type rulesets so that now there will be rulesets which don't allow each type of attack as well as rulesets which *only* allow each type of attack. Please note that we will also be disabling these six "attack type" limiting rulesets in Alpha edition only tournaments since there are already so few cards to choose from in the Alpha edition that it doesn't make sense to limit it further. ## Show Us Your Battles! Having to adapt to constantly changing rules and knowing which cards are better or worse in different situations is the core component of the skill and fun of the Splinterlands game, and we look forward to this update taking that mechanic to an entirely new level. The mechanic also allows nearly every card in the game to have utility and value in certain situations, which requires players to have a very diverse selection of cards available in order to be competitive. We see this as another important feature of the game, as well as being a nice change from the typical collectible card game where many cards are worthless and hardly ever used in competitive play. We can't wait to see players posting some of the crazy new ruleset combinations they encounter in battles and seeing certain previously underutilized cards shine when that specific situation arises that calls for them! ## Updated Ruleset & Incompatibility List |Name|Type|Incompatible Types|Incompatible Rulesets| |--|--|--|--| |Aim True|Ability||| |Aimless|Ability |Briar Patch|Ability |Close Range|Ability |Counterspell|Ability |Equal Opportunity|Ability||Aimless, Melee Mayhem, Super Sneak, Target Practice| |Explosive Weaponry|Ability| |Ferocity|Ability| |Fire & Regret|Ability| |Heavy Hitters|Ability| |Holy Protection|Ability| |Melee Mayhem|Ability| |Stampede|Ability|| |Super Sneak|Ability||Melee Mayhem| |Target Practice|Ability||Aimless| |Tis but Scratches|Ability Up to Eleven|Ability Weak Magic|Ability What Doesn't Kill You|Ability Broken Arrows|Attack Type|Attack Type|Close Range, Fire & Regret Keep Your Distance|Attack Type|Attack Type|Briar Patch, Melee Mayhem, Stampede, Super Sneak Going the Distance|Attack Type|Attack Type|Briar Patch, Counterspell, Melee Mayhem, Stampede, Super Sneak, Weak Magic Lost Magic|Attack Type|Attack Type|Counterspell, Weak Magic Up Close & Personal|Attack Type|Attack Type|Aimless, Close Range, Counterspell, Fire & Regret, Target Practice, Weak Magic Wands Out|Attack Type|Attack Type|Briar Patch, Close Range, Fire & Regret, Melee Mayhem, Stampede, Super Sneak Even Stevens|Card Mana|Card Mana| Little League|Card Mana|Card Mana|Ferocity, Stampede Odd Ones Out|Card Mana|Card Mana Lost Legendaries|Card Rarity|Card Rarity Rise of the Commons|Card Rarity|Card Rarity Taking Sides|Card Type| Back to Basics|Ability Removal|Ability Removal|Ferocity, Heavy Hitters, Stampede Fog of War|Ability Removal| Healed Out|Ability Removal| Armored Up|Other| Earthquake|Other| Equalizer|Other| Noxious Fumes|Other| Reverse Speed|Other| Silenced Summoners|Other| Unprotected|Other||Armored Up, Weak Magic ![](https://i.imgur.com/IAAas02.png) <center> ## Stay tuned for more updates from the Splinterlands! **[Website](https://splinterlands.com) | [Blog](https://peakd.com/@splinterlands) | [Discord](https://discord.gg/CAFJRjY) | [Telegram](https://t.me/splinterlands) | [Shop](https://steemstyle.io/collections/splinterlands)** ![](https://i.imgur.com/xrZQl2D.gif) *NOTE: All rewards from this post will be burned.* </center>
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Season Rentals Spec

When listing a card for rent, players can choose whether it should be a season or daily rental If season rental is chosen, they specify a price per day (like normal) The market UI should be updated to allow renters to toggle between seeing season or daily rentals When renting a season rental card, the rental will be for the number of days to take it past the current season end, so for example if a player rents a card at 12:00 PM ET on Jan 1st and the season ends at 9:00 AM ET on Jan 15th, then the rental will end at 12:00 PM ET on Jan 15thAlternatively, all season rentals can be completed together right at the end of the season. We can go with whatever is easier to implement. If rentals end right at the end of the season then we need to take into account the partial payment for the last day when the card is first rented Season rentals can only be done for a single season (i.e. you can't specify that you want to rent a card for multiple seasons at one time) and cannot be cancelled If a season rental is started within 7 days from the end of the current season, then the rental will go until the end of the following season. This means that all season rentals will last a minimum of 7 days The full payment for a season rental should be sent to the card owner at the time the rental starts. There is no reason to hold funds in escrow and make daily payments since the rental cannot be cancelled

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Fifth Chaos Legion Legendary Summoner Airdrop Revealed!

There are now about 120k packs left until the next 1M Chaos Legion booster packs are sold so it's time to reveal the next airdrop! This next airdrop will be the fifth Legendary Summoner card designed by players who purchased the most Chaos Legion booster packs in the pre-sale last year. The fifth Chaos Legion Legendary Summoner airdrop card will be the Death element Summoner - Astral Entity! The character was designed by @cryptoreaper and will be the 13th Chaos Legion card to be airdropped to early pack purchasers! Please keep in mind that 25k Chaos Legion packs are burned every day as a result of the recent SPS governance proposal, so packs eligible for this airdrop are guaranteed to sell out within the next week! Astral Entity will be the 28th Legendary card to be available in Chaos Legion edition booster packs, and each pack purchased up until the 13M mark will have a 0.154% chance of receiving the card, which means that 1 in every 650 packs will receive the card on average. Additionally, players will be GUARANTEED to receive one Astral Entity card for every 650 Chaos Legion packs purchased. Finally, each airdropped card received will have a 4% (or 1 out of 25) chance of being a Gold Foil version of the card.

1/27/2023
SPS DAO Treasury Report

Publishing a DAO treasury report has been on the to-do list for some time now, but kept getting pushed back as other priorities came up. Now that a first version of community proposals is live and the SPS validators are getting closer to testnet release, it is of increasing importance that all of you - the community of staked SPS token holders - have clear information on the DAO treasury which is ultimately yours to use as you collectively wish.

1/26/2023
Announcing the New Chaos Legion Reward Cards

The Splinterlands team is excited to announce a set of 43 new Chaos Legion reward cards that are expected to be coming to loot chests near you before the month is out! As you probably already know from discussions on the town hall events, these new reward cards will be soulbound - meaning they will not be able to be transferred, rented/delegated, burned, or sold until the cards go out of print (more on that later). The shift to soulbound reward cards is a key piece of the overall goal of making the game more engaging for players and encouraging players to focus on growing their accounts over the long term rather than just farming rewards in the short term. We believe that it is extremely important to have certain things that are ONLY able to be obtained through gameplay, and not just purchased off of the market, which increases the value of playing ranked battles, moving up to higher leagues, and most importantly - combining cards. The fact that these reward cards will eventually become transferrable means that players will still be able to realize their value in the future, so this can also be viewed as a kind of long-term NFT staking. Loot Chests The new soulbound reward cards are currently planned to be release on Tuesday, January 31st, 2023, in the normal maintenance window which will be shortly after the end of the current ranked play season. As soon as the new reward cards are released they will replace the old reward cards in new loot chests. This means that the old reward cards will stop being minted, even though many of them are still well under their initially planned print limit.

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