Background
- Read my lore, JKJK 😂
- For real, have played Splinterlands for about 1 year+
- Previous account mostly played between Silver, Gold and Diamond 3
Motivation
- Want to challenge myself
- Want to see how well Chaos Legion and Reward (CL) able to reach in Modern Ranked
- Want to test is it viable to reach Diamond and beyond with low budget
Proof
- Season Chest still Bronze while rating already in Diamond 3
- Daily Chest still Bronze while rating already in Diamond 3
- Daily Focus still have 1 hour and 10 minutes before next reset (Meaning got 1 hour+ left before hit 24 hours)
Prerequisite
- Modern Ranked
- Max Chaos Legion
- Max Reward (Chaos Legion)
- Don't care about ECR, “ECR is for the weak” - Patrick Star
Cost
- Rented all Max Chaos Legion collection (2 days) = ~$7 (exclude Possibilus)
- Bought all Max Reward (CL) = ~$140 (price at the time of writing)
- Total around ~$147
Advantage
Advantage of running this strategy:
- IMO is cheap
- Why I avoid Riftwatchers for now is because don't have much experience with this edition
- With renting, motivation to climb ASAP is very high
Disadvantage
- Fight opponent with large collection and more options to choose from (Untamed + Dice + Chaos Legion + Riftwatchers)
- Not owning any card which have a lot of use case in the future eg. wild ranked, wild tournament, land, etc.
I recorded most of my battles, below are my learnings and observations for each League:
Novice
- Mostly will be Standard ruleset
- Recommend to just spam magic with Obsidian as there are less monsters to reduce/reflect magic here
- Bots here love to use Drake of Arnak
Bronze
- Obsidian and Kelya is strong here
- Other than Standard ruleset will start to appear in Bronze 2 and Bronze 1
- Got a lot of bots in this league with under leveled card
- Battle highlights:
- Obsidian vs Kelya + Oshannus - Battle Link
- Kelya vs Thaddius (Odd Ones Out) - Battle Link
Silver
- Start seeing more than 1 ruleset
- No 1 summoner can be spam here, is all depend on the ruleset
- Still versus players/bots with under leveled card
- Battle highlights:
- Quix vs Tarsa (Silenced Summoner and Holy Protection) - Battle Link
- Thaddius vs Obsidian (Back To Basic and Stampede 🤣) - Battle Link
Gold
- Hello, human! Finally, glad to see you guys here hahaha
- Battle start to be really interesting as monsters have unlocked more abilities and able to fight more players and high end bots here
- Battle highlights:
- Clutch - Battle Link
- Sloan vs Quix - Battle Link
- Jacek vs Thaddius - Battle Link
- Quix vs Jacek - Battle Link
Conclusion
- My current status according to splintercards at the time of writing
- How my last 50 battles looks like at splex.gg at the time of writing
The challenge is still not done yet, I still got less than 15 hours of rented cards at the time of writing, so be sure to follow me at PeakD and Twitter to see where I able to reach by the end of rental period 😏
Thank you for reading, hope you enjoy the post!