RE: Scholarships for Splinterlands? All you need to know

Thanks for your point! You're right saying rentals and scholarships fulfill the same function: implementating a shared ownership of NFT, thus increasing their use.

The main difference between the two comes in my opinion from the fact that rentals only give you DEC, while a scholar grinding higher leagues also give you chests and merits. The expected value of a chest is currently around 50 DEC, making scholars somehow viable around Silver leagues.

I really love renting cards, but let not forget it requires some micromanagement, prices between seasons change a lot and not everything is easy to rent.

Another option I described is to use a bot, Axie is fighting them, not Splinterlands. Another huge difference.