I climbed from Novice to Diamond in less than 24 hours

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.

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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:

1. Obsidian vs Kelya + Oshannus - Battle Link
2. 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:

1. Quix vs Tarsa (Silenced Summoner and Holy Protection) - Battle Link
2. 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:

1. Clutch - Battle Link
2. Sloan vs Quix - Battle Link
3. Jacek vs Thaddius - Battle Link
4. Quix vs Jacek - Battle Link

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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

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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!