TOP 8 GOLD LEAGUE LEADERBOARD (Meta cards at Gold League and Giveaway # 69)

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Welcome back to my blog, @queen-silvia. The End of Season has just finished yesterday, How was your EOS chests guys? I hope you got great rewards, whether they are GFL, Packs, Bunch of Merits, Thousands of SPS or the New Summoners. Well, Beside of EOS, There's one thing that you should consider to participate. Yeah, It's a Leaderboard for sure. There are great rewards of DEC in each league started from Bronze to Diamond league, so feel free to fight for the leaderboard in the league that you are convenient the most. In this article, I would like to share my experience to finish at the top 8 of Modern Gold league Leaderboard last season and I'll also share to all of you guys about Meta Cards at Gold league which you definitely should have in order to get leaderboard prize.

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Here are some of the topis that we'll cover in this article :

  1. Comparison between fighting for Silver Leaderboard and Gold Leaderboard
  2. Meta Cards for Gold League
  3. Great Battle strategy using those Meta cards
  4. The announcement of Giveaway #67 Winner
  5. Giveaway #69

Alright guys, Let's start to look at the the first topic 😊

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- COMPARISON BETWEEN FIGHTING FOR SILVER AND GOLD LEADERBOARD -

Well, In the previous 2 seasons, I have finished as the top #1 Silver Modern Leaderboard, The complete article can be read HERE. In that article, I have explained some leaderboard tips and tricks for Silver league. I felt more confidence climbing for silver league rather than gold league because I have played soo many silver league battles either at weekly tournaments or in the past. The experience of competing at the silver leaderboard for several seasons is also the reason why Silver league feels easier than gold league. So last season, I have decided to leave the Silver Leaderboard and try to fight for Gold Leaderboard.

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Last season was literally the first time for me fighting for gold leaderboard so I aimed for the top 10 first at least to secure the 20,000 DEC. I found lots of difficulties climbing for gold leaderboard. It's like we got the average of +7 to +10 points from winning the matches but when we lose the battle, our rating down around -35 points. I need 373 battles to get the #8 rank, the second highest battles among the top #10 leader boarders, the highest battles was the top leader boarders with 376 battles. It's all about win rate actually, No matter how many battles we have, If our win rate is higher than our opponents, we'll definitely finish at the higher rating.

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Another reason why gold league is harder is because RNG or luck plays important roles in all of the matches. One of many example is the *poison* ability by Deeplurker, Uraeus, Dr. Blight, Horny Toad, The Vigilator, Serpent of the Flame, Goblin Chef, Mushroom Sheer, Venari Seedsmith, Silvershield Assassin, Skeleton Assassin, Haunted Spider, Venari Bonesmith, and Royal Dragon Archer. The chance to activate this ability is 50%, so even if we have very high chance to win the match based on splintertools.io, as long as the poison is not activated, we won't win the battle. So the best thing that we can do is to arrange better lineup monsters according to the mana, rulesets, and splinters available. At Silver league, it's more fair to say that the RNG has lower roles than gold league.

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- META CARDS FOR GOLD LEAGUE -

Well, Now let's discuss about the Meta cards (which I interpret as the most used cards at Gold league). So I would suggest that you really have to own or rent this card to increase the win rate and get more daily chests, I'll put the meta cards of every splinters in the below table :

Keep in mind that these cards are belong to modern cards since I play modern format more often than wild :)

Fire Splinter

NumberNameSpecial Ability
1Antoid PlatoonThis card is very useful in low - mid mana with his shield and scavennger ability. It's always a good choice for many rulesets like equalizer and lost magic.
2Serpentine SpyGreat choice for attacking purpose with his opportunity, high melee damage and high speed. Good for low until high mana.
3Ash MirageHis headwinds ability could reduce the opponent ranged damage by 1. His Reflection Shield is also used very often since many cards at gold have blast ability.
4TinderlockUsed mostly to reduce the opponent's magic damage by -1
5Countesh SinashHer swiftness ability is a perfect combo with other cards. Pretty aggressive card with her 4 ranged damage and opportunity.

Water Splinter

NumberNameSpecial Ability
1DeeplurkerHis posion and opportunity ability makes him very dangerous for the opponent's backline team and could kill them very fast
2BaakjiraPerfect card for the defense purposes with his 13 Health Points, Void, Slow, and Strengthen abilities. Every turn his HP restored 4 points unless being afflicted
3AxemasterVery dangerous card at the backline with his total 6 ranged damage in each round and his mana is only 7. Very effective card and save mana cost a lot.
4Tide BiterMostly being placed at second position as he has reflection shield ability. Great card to be used at little league with his 3 melee damage
5River hellondaleUsed very often in high mana especially with her inspire and resurrect ability which could increase melee damage by +1 and bring back friendly monster to life.

Earth Splinter

NumberNameSpecial Ability
1Failed SummonersVery useful card to counter magic and melee monsters with his Demoralize and Magic reflect ability. The most precious and used Common cards in Splinterlands.
2Goblin PsychicThe healing, Silence and affliction abilities are always great to reduce the opponent magic damage as well as keep the friendly tank alive.
3Queen MyceliaBaakjira
4EponaHer protect, triage and amplify abilities make a great ultimate defense especially against the melee monsters. always being combined with Failed Summoner to increase the magic reflect damage.
5Acid ShooterWith his 2 mana, 2 damage and scattershot, This card is always a good choice to be put in the backline either fifth or sixth position.

Life Splinter

NumberNameSpecial Ability
1Lone BoatmanThe repair ability make him special. We could make an ultimate defense with life splinter by putting him in the backline.
2Venari CrystalsmithHer tank heal ability is always used in many rulesets. I often combine him with cleanse monster in order to be able to restore HP each round
3Corsair BosunIn high mana battle, this card are often being used and put in the second place due to his reflection shield ability, cleanse and high melee damage.
4Adelade BrightwingHer 2 special abilities are resurrect and repair. Both will help us to create great defense and attack at the same time. This is what makes life special.
5Jared ScarWhen the rulesets allows melee monsters to attack in any position like super sneak, equal opportunity, melee mayhem, etc, This is a must used cards due to his bloodlust and piercing ability.

Death Splinter

NumberNameSpecial Ability
1Death ElementalThe ability to reduce the opponent magic damage by -1 is very important. This is what makes death splinter special.
2Queen of CrowsNot only magic, we can also reduce the ranged damage using headwinds by Queen of Crows. Reducing opponent damage is always give huge advantage at battle.
3Soul StormSame reason as Queen of Crows. His headwinds reduce the opponent's ranged damage.
4CabalistHis amplify makes him special. With the ability, we can increase the reflected ranged or magic or Thorn damage to the opponent.
5HarklawShield ability helped him to receive less damage from ranged and melee monster. The demoralize help us to counter opponent's melee and the immunity will never allow poison to be activated to him.

Dragon Splinter

NumberNameSpecial Ability
1Runic SkyclawThe snipe ability could destroy the opponent's backline very fast. She also has reflection shield to stop the blast damage spreading
2Agor LongtailWe can make a good defense as well as attack as this monster has heal, void armor, Thorn and Flying ability. Most of the time, paired up with Oshuur.
3Canila SungazerThis card is must card to use when the ruleset is silenced summoner because we can use some other splinters alongside the dragon.
4Carnage TitanAlways being put at the second position with his range ability. He has 6 damage in total and shield ability to make him pretty cool as the second tank monster.
5Chaos DragonThe most used card at high mana too with his scattershot, Blast and Blind ability. Once the attack hit the middle of backline, the attack is devastating.

Neutral Splinter

NumberNameSpecial Ability
1Chain GolemA super card with shield and void ability. Makes as a great tank monster towards any kind of attack, The shield will reduce the melee and ranged by -1. The void will reduce magic damage by -1.
2Venari MarksratThe martyr ability is special. the effect is the same as Bloodlust which could increase all the stats by +1
3Dr. BlightThe poison, Affliction, Scavenger and Camouflage abilities are the reason why he often being put at the last position (sometimes fifth with ranged monster at the last position).
4UraeusSneak and Posion abilities could destroy the opponent's backline .
5Venari SpellsmithHis amplify could increase the reflected magic, ranged and thorn ability. He is a neutral so we can use him almost for all battles.

Alright guys, Let's start to look at the the first topic 😊

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- GREAT BATTLES USING META CARDS -

Alright guys, I'll provide 3 great battles using Meta cards, Check these out :

Earth Splinter (Failed Summoner & Goblin Psychic)

RulesetManaElement
Rise of the Commons, Briar Patch, Broken Arrows28Dragon, Water, Earth, Life

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BATTLE LINK

Earth Splinter (Failed Summoner & Goblin Psychic)

RulesetManaElement
Rise of the Commons, Briar Patch, Broken Arrows28Dragon, Water, Earth, Life
The first great battle is between I and my friend, @russia-btc. I saw his last 5 matches were using some Alric then I went for magic counter. Putting 2 tank monsters with magic reflect ability (Prismatic energy and Failed Summoner), 2 monsters with silence ability to reduce the opponent magic damage and affliction to prevent the opponent from healing their tank. I should have put amplify monster to increase the damage of reflected magic but the mana was not sufficient. Immortalis has a big role to protect my team from reflected magic with his void ability given to all friendly monsters.

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Life Splinter (Venari Crystalsmith & Lone Boatman)

RulesetManaElement
Rise of the Commons, Lost Magic, Fog of War24Dragon, Water, Death, Life, Fire

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BATTLE LINK

Well. the ruleset was lost magic, so only melee and ranged attack who can be played. Another ruleset is fog of war, That means no sneak nor opportunity monster so the battle will most likely will be flooded with ranged monster. That's the reason why I used Ilthain to counter ranged attack and It was right. The opponent set General Sloan to increase the ranged damage unit. Both of us set Tank who have shield ability to reduce the ranged damage but as I have return fire, all of the ranged damage my team received, will be reflected back and thus make the opponent lose the battle.

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Death Splinter (Death Elemental)

RulesetManaElement
Wands Out, Little League, Taking Sides23Fire, Dragon, Water, Earth, Death

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BATTLE LINK

The last battle is about the meta cards from Death Splinter, Death elemental. As we can see in the above battle, The card is so great that he can reduce all of the opponent magic damage by one. Unfortunately the ruleset was taking sides so I could not put amplify to increase the damage of the reflected magic. In the Wands Out rule set, Some summoners that are often used are Owster Rotwell since he can reflect the magic damage, Immortalis since he can give all friendly monster void ability and Grand Master Rathe since he can give all friendly monsters void armor.

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- ANNOUNCEMENT OF GIVEAWAY #67 WINNER -

Alright guys, now it's time for the giveaway. We have 50 participants for the Giveaway #64. I'd like to say Thank you very much for visiting my blog and joined the giveaway. Here are the list of participants :

@henruc, @pulubengdugs, @outwars, @akiraymd, @danideuder, @tinyputerboy, @engilhramn, @ianballantine, @jats-0, @olaf.gui, @poplar-22, @mario89, @seeweed, @syel25, @maxmaka, @bechibenner, @arveno, @mxm0unite, @willendorfia, @saydie, @candnpg, @flummi97, @ijat, @dk1trade, @noctury, @jhuleader, @jdike, @kqaosphreak, @ladymisa, @thebighigg, @vaynard86, @pero82, @gregory-f, @circlebubble, @rayius, @javeson, @cpol, @cribbio, @gasaeightyfive, @ianballantine, @jhuleader, @kqaosphreak, @ladymisa, @marcocasario, @maxmaka, @mxm0unite, @oadissin, @pero82, @pulubengdugs, @russia-btc

(Cpol, Cribbio, Gasaeightyfive, Ianballantine, Jhuleader, Kqaosphreak, Ladymisa, Marcocasario, Maxmaka, Mxm0unite, Oadissin, Pero82, Pulubengdugs, Russia-btc got additional 1 ticket as they re-blogged the post)
I hope I don't miss out any names there. Regardless you win or not, I hope you guys keep supporting me by participating in my upcoming giveaways because sharing to the community is fun. Here is the snapshot of the winner :

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Congratulations to @kqaosphreak for winning Disintegrator. This card has Demoralize, Trample, Knock Out and Retaliate at maximum level which are very powerful in the battle.

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1 BCX of Disintegrator has been sent to IGN : @kqaos (as he mentioned in the comment section), enjoy that Disintegrator 👍. For other participants who didn't win, you can try your luck taking a part in the next giveaway below (Giveaway #69).

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- GIVEAWAY #69 -

Alright, in the previous post we had a chaos card for the giveaway. In this giveaway post, there will be 1 Untamed (Reward) card that you could possibly win, Here is the card :
Nectar Queen

I will use Wheel of Names for the drawing and the name picked out will be given the card prize.

How to participate :
  1. Please put your IGN (In-Game Name) in the comment section.
  2. If you feel like the post is useful feel free to follow me for more battle tips and tricks and 2 weekly giveaways continuously. I'll make sure we will be good friends :)
  3. Upvote is not a requirement but it will be greatly appreciated to increase the quality and the quantity of the next giveaway.
  4. Re-blogging this post will give you 2 tickets, higher tickets, higher chance to win the rewards 😉

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Notes :
  1. The cut off time is the pay-out of this post (7 days). I will put a comment "TIME'S UP" when the time is up.
  2. The winner will be announced in the next giveaways.
  3. If you want to give feedback or critics, feel free to leave any comments. As long they are constructive and not offensive, they will be appreciated.
  4. Started from now, I will tag all of the participants who have joined (in the previous giveaway) in case you want to join the giveaway again, if you want me to stop tagging your IGN, feel free to comment STOP in the comment section.
  5. Every time I posted blogs whether Battle Challenge or Social Media Challenge, there will be 1 card be rewarded for the giveaway winner.

Notification List :

@olaf.gui, @engilhramn, @stonemountain69, @pero82, @candnpg, @danideuder, @pulubengdugs, @jdike, @zonadigital21, @syel25,
@cryptoace33, @amaari, @treefrognada, @willendorfia, @jhuleader, @pirulito.zoado, @rayius, @ladymisa, @henruc, @noctury, @blitzzzz, @flummi97, @vaynard86, @ianballantine, @cpol, @poplar-22, @arveno, @luizeba, @amaari, @gregory-f, @iamgem005, @onthemountain, @dk1trade, @pansoup, @mizukii, @candnpg, @thebighigg, @mxm0unite, @vaynard86, @tinyputerboy, @circlebubble, @bechibenner, @cribbio, @gasaeightyfive, @marcocasario, @mxm0unite, @oadissin, @russia-btc, @mario89, @jats-0, @seewed, @maxmaka, @javeson

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Alright, that's the end of this article guys, Thank you for visiting my blog. See you in the next article and giveaway. Take care~

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Thank you Outwars for the kind words

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Okay Olaf

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Count me in again, please. Many thanks - Ian :)< @ianballantine

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Sure Ianballantine,

Thank you so much for reblogging the post, You got additional ticket as usual

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Congratulations for your amazing results and good analysis of the most important cards. Some of them are very expensive but others are quite cheap and necessary.

Count me in for the Giveaway.

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Thank you yeah, I think we can join some tournaments to get the rental cost back :)

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ty @jhuleader
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Okay jhuleader

Thank you very much for reblogging the post, You got additional ticket as usual

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ty for the tips
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Your Welcome Syel

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Thanks for the tip and have a pizza too

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I wish I had a Owster Rotwell now that we have the ruleset Wands Out. I'm considering just biting the bullet and getting one now.
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Yeah, Owster is reallly useful in Wands Out Ruleset

Thanks for your support my friend

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Nice summary of meta cards
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Thank you for the kind words and all the tips

Have a pizza too, Noctury

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Thank you pero, my friend

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Thank you as always for the tips! I'm nowhere close to gold league yet, but at least now I know which of my cards to focus on leveling up.

Congrats to @kqaosphreak!

Thank you also for the giveaway! Please count me in. @willendorfia

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Thank You for your kind words, Willendorfia

Playing at gold is so much fun, You have to try it :)

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Thank you very much rick for all the tips

Have a pizza too

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Thank you for the card, I appreciate it!
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