The Four Horsemen
With collecting of The Horsemen in full flow, and people hurrying to finish sets, I thought it would be the ideal opportunity to talk a little more about The Horsemen.
Sets are built of 8 cards. 4 x A and 4 x B. Your A cards are War, Plague, Death and Conquest. And your B cards are The Steel King, Pestilence, The Reaper and The Angel. A sets have coloured borders (aside from classic and Black Glass) and B sets have white borders. For every A set you complete, you’ll be rewarded The Four Horsemen card. For every B set, you’ll get The Apocalypse card.
Versions of each card will be awarded for corresponding rarities. So if you complete the A side of Midnight, you’ll get The Four Horsemen card in Midnight rarity. Obviously if you collect the A and B side, you’ll get both rewards. And you’ll get rewards for every set completed, so if you have 10 base-sets, that’s 10 base-set rewards.
Rewarding for collecting both A or B sides as well as individual rarities is something we’ve been doing for a while now. Dare I say we were the first to reward like this. And we still set the standard in terms of reward card quality and amount. No other project even comes close. But we’re always looking to give more, reward collectors as much as we can. This is why we’re introducing Rainbow Glass — cards that we’ll award to people who collect every rarity of any specific character. So if you have Death from Base through Ultra Rare (including both epics and all four legendaries), you’ll get Death in Rainbow Glass. We recognise our community consists of lots of different types of collectors and when we saw collectors completing “rainbow” sets from Series 1 and Alien Horrors for the fun of it, we loved the idea and it was something we had to incorporate into our rewards system.
The snapshot for The Horsemen collector rewards will be taken June 9th 1 PM— 2 PM UTC, and the cards will be dropped June 10th. As always, we’ll let rewards open for those people who’re late to the party. But the low mints go to the people who finish on time. Only right and fair.
When we came into the space, we had in mind to do huge collectible sets — that was our thing. And that’s what we did with The Horrors Series 1 and Alien Horrors. But it was after our release of Horrors of the Splinterlands collab — a limited 6 card set — we realised everything we did didn’t have to be huge. There was an appetite for smaller sets too.
The idea for The Horsemen came pretty quickly thereafter. I’ve always loved The Horsemen characters ever since I was a kid, and I saw Venkmen and Stanz tackle spectral versions of the Horsemen in Marvel’s Ghostbusters comic. That iconic image of them riding into the apocalypse — bringing the end of all things with them — has been seared into my psyche. They had to be our first Premiere collection.
But as we developed the set, the characters began to take on a life of their own. I won’t go into spoilers, but let’s just say, behind the scenes, The Horrors is constantly evolving. It’s much more than a simple collectible card set. With comics on the horizon, I don’t think anyone will have to do too much brainwork to know who our protagonists are.
Happy collecting.
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