Splinterlands weekly release brings three new rulesets and a Visions of Verico Alterations renewal pre-sale
The game’s official release notes, dated Nov. 10, list three new battle rulesets for Splinterlands along with a renewal pre-sale for Visions of Verico alteration drops.
“Three brand-new battle rulesets are joining the game this week!” the @splinterlands account wrote on X. “We also have an important Alterations Renewal Pre-sale for Visions of Verico collectors, Modern gameplay adjustments, and several improvements to the Non-Card Market.”
The three new rulesets
Chain Reaction hurts teams that bunch their units together. The release notes put it this way: “When a unit dies, the adjacent units each take 2 physical damage.”
Live and Let Die shuts down revival effects. Per the notes, “When this rule is in play, Rebirth, Resurgence, Resurrect, and Soul Siphon do not work.”
Plague Rot turns abilities that heal on a kill into a drawback. With this rule active, “Life Leech and Scavenger reduce permanent Health instead of gain it,” according to the notes.
The Alterations renewal pre-sale
Owners of Visions of Verico can use the pre-sale to add five years to their alteration drops. It costs 10,000 Credits or DEC, or 10 USDC.
The offer ends with the year. Once it closes, “the price to extend Alteration claims past August 2027 will increase,” the release notes said, without naming the higher price.
Alteration is a land ability that arrived with Visions of Verico. The team says it grants a monthly skin airdrop plus a chance at rare premium skins, beginning Aug. 18, 2026.
The Visions of Verico set holds 54 cards covering every bloodline, linked to Toil and Kin land production bonuses. It was sold as 250,000 packs priced at $2 each, with 5% off for buyers paying in DEC.
Modern and matchmaking adjustments
Extra edition cards are no longer counted against Modern bracket minimum level caps.
The odds of each mana range also changed. Low-mana matches went from a 20% chance to 25%, while high-mana matches dropped from 20% to 15%.
A bug was fixed in which Visions of Verico cards “could incorrectly be chosen for Survival cooldowns on a surrender.” Mistwing also picks up Snare at max level. Until this release, the card got no update at that level.
Non-Card Market fixes
Skins account for most of the market changes. From the Non-Card Market display, players can now turn several skins on or off in one go, and the display shows all sets by default where it used to show Modern sets only.
The notification after a skin purchase now links to the card details page, where the skin can be activated. Removing a skin listing from the market now refreshes the owned-skins list without the player reloading the browser.
Community-made stickers were added in the Artisan Quarter. A display bug was fixed too: the Exemplar card had not shown its mana in red when its cost was higher than the mana still available.
Background
This update comes after the Nov. 3 launch of the Starlight Foundation Set, which has 36 Frontier cards sold in Sky, Stellar and Cosmic packs. Each pack purchase requires a drop earned through daily missions as well as Credits.
The team hotfixed one problem from that launch before this week’s release went live. Buying a spellbook and choosing a name had stopped players from using Starlight drops they earned on a lite account.
