Hello everyone! I would like to tell you the story of my first month in Splinterlands.
I registered and bought the spellbook immediately, so i was able to pick my summoner name... after that shortly i bought 6k coin and get some common cards, thats was my first move after tried the game within few battles.
Since the first pick of cards was kinda not the best choices of my life, at night i listed them on the market and sold them all till morning. On the second day bought some earth cards; wood nymph, centauri mage etc... and kept the remaining DEC unspent.
After some ranked matches i went to browse the market and rented out some water card. Phantom of the abyss was the first legendary i played with, and the water deck seemed like a quick way out of the bronze league. After an hour of ranked games i found the events tab and found a bronze capped tournament. I joined and honestly i was rly lucky mostly was able to play Phantom of the abyss and that card made the games mostly for me. I finished as 2nd on the event and earned 500DEC! That was quit a lot for me on my 2nd day.
And now back to ladder; i reached silver 2 rating, but was far away from the power cap, that was the point when i felt "i will be in bronze forever" until realized the rented cards also give you the power so rented out some golden cards to have the power needed.
The rest of the season was not so exciting since it was rly hard in the silver league, but i wanted as much reward chests in the end as possible. Finally the season ended, and i received my chests where i found 2K DEC within one of them, i got luck once again (didn't happened since any kind of lucky chest opening...)
That 2K DEC gave me the boost i needed and bought a Mushroom Seer. hesitated what to buy and sadly i did not chose Mylor Crowling which more than doubled in the last two weeks.
The 2nd season i participated is going to end tomorrow and i reached Gold III this season for the chests. However i tried myself out in the Bronze league and after it was clear to me i got no relevant chance to get in to the top 20 decided to go for the chests and rented out 100k power for 1k DEC. Tomorrow i will see if its worth it or not :D
About the Bronze league it seems like to me if you are renting cards out its cost around 500 daily to have one faction with some lv3 dudes and a non legendary summoner for them to be able to ramp up in the ranks. For me earth / water / and light was the choices and was able to reach rank 70th in a one day rush from around 1200th... I think you need some legendary summoners and monsters also to be in the bronze top 20, but thats increase the rental cost daily a lot.
I plan to write my experience about the next season aswell, and my personal goal is to be in the top 20 in the Bronze league next season.
p.s.: LF Guild!