One of my best Twitter accounts is Splinterlands. It keeps me informed about all the important news in the ecosystem and #Hive posting events like a media challenge. In my opinion, those challenges are an incredible way of increasing the pride of being part of this community, as every player shares his/her game experience with others, allowing others to learn about everyone's successes and mistakes. For this one, there has been a huge change in the game that affects all Runis: 3 rulesets per battle. I will share how I've decided to manage my budget to build a top Diamond deck thanks to the new Deck functionality via peak-monsters and I will also share an Epic battle where my Runi performed an astonishing performance. Hope you like it!
Budget Management Update
When I told that Lux brought me to Champion, that was true, but also with a 3k DEC rental daily. This situation causes me a lot of uncertainty about prices and frustration if the cards I am searching for are not available. Thanks to the new 
Overall was a 550$ investment. This amount which can be huge is saving me around 600-800 DEC per day. So only rentals will have a return of 2 years. But... Land expansion 1.5 is coming, with the foreseen scarcity. So I am very happy with the first step.
My next steps
Once my rental deck is updated in Peakmonsters, took a look at my next incorporations. There a 12 interesting cards (Disintegrator -36$, Silent Sha-Vi -28$, Soul Strangler - 16$, Windeku 46$, Flying Squid 29$, Nerissa 86$, Chaos Knight 20$, Time Mage 22$, Dax Paragon 38$, Supply Runner 52$, Angelic Mandarin 25$ and Chaos Agent 65$. All for 443$ approx.
With all these creatures I hope to decrease significantly my Daily rental spending to around 1,2k - 1,5k DEC. Another important aspect is that I will have all creatures available to play and not expect a third-party market.
Runi Epic performance in Champion tier
As I usually say, I prefer the tactical part of the game. And related to this aspect I bring an Epic performance of my Runi (another one!). This one was a 27-Mana Melee Only-Thorns ruleset (One of Runis' favorite ones). The board looked as follows
- Uriel is such a great option if you are looking for a reliable tank that will absorb tons of damage before he falls. That was my Angel performance in this battle. When you face Melee only, some annoying abilities like Afflictions or Ignoring Armor through Magic are discarded. So his reliability is increased. Also, his recharge allows him to save thorns and retaliate damage.
- For my second position, brought Wolverine. This creature has not stopped surprising me on the battlefield. When he took Uriel's position he loaded up tons of health and was ready to rock.
- Fiend and Reflecting made a great job taunting Opportunities and Sneaks. Giving my team a +1 Speed and a +15% absolute increase in dodging attacks (take note of the second attack from Serpentine with 8 speed to Fiend 5 Evading - those evades annoy!).
- Finally, I bring you the best performance of my Runi ever! He relentlessly made damage and took some time taking down those annoying monkeys with repair (ignoring speed thanks to True Strike and not taking damage thanks to his reflecting shield). Then came Tenyi, and Serpentine with spectacular combinations of attacks and thorns. My Uriel was slayed by a forgotten one and then came how Runi slayed him. Best take a look. Antoid Platoon could deal with Vulguine and him but they were close.
I leave you the entire battle here
With 3 rulesets in 75% of top competitive leagues, the Splinterlands walks to a kind of game where every single card wins in importance. It has been shown in this post that conditions will be more restrictive and battles will be decided even by closer details. This was a very epic close one, that I enjoyed playing and even more analyzing for you!
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