Analysis --> 14th full season in Splinterlands

The end of the 6th season of the new rewards system has come. I am still enjoying the way it works and I think it is actually pretty well-balanced overall. Here's what I got from my 53 Gold chests:

49 Legendary Potions;
78 Alchemy Potions;
41.138 SPS;
a total of 16 cards - no legedaries, 1 epic, 1 GF common
238 merits

This my first complete season in Gold league and I am pleased with the amount of chests I earned. Moreover I have not rented any cards so I have pushed through solely relying on my level 5 CL Summoners and the respective level of CL and Reward cards. However, in the last few days I have made huge progress towards upgrading my Gold deck. I've gotten Rathe and Quix to level 3, and Tarsa, Sloan, Thaddius and Obsidian to level 6. I have also maxed out for Gold all the CL reward cards apart from Kinjo, Sinesh and Jared. They will have to wait a bit. So I am hoping to start feeling more comfortable when playing in Gold league.

And here's the summary for the whole month - 399 mostly Gold Chests (total value: $29.14):

7 packs;
14,600 DEC;
67.00 SPS;
111 cards - 1 legendary, 5 epics, 3 GF commons
1,900 Merits;
339 Alchemy Potions;
251 Legendary Potions;

I think that's not bad at all, in fact the 7 packs I pulled have definitely broken the previous monthly record. As a whole playing in Gold feels more stable in terms of earnings and a lot more rewarding than Silver. Yeah it's not Diamond or Champion but that is not expected either.

All the data in the sections below has been obtained from HERE

As I have already mentioned my Gold deck is still work in progress. So as you can see relying solely on your entry level Gold CL deck for Modern is not exactly optimal as far as the Win/Loss Ratio goes. It's been quite a while since I ended a season with a negative win/loss ratio but it is not such a big deal really. Yeah I waste a bit more ECR but at least I am using my own cards so I feel good about that. Having said that I am expecting to substantially improve my Win/Loss ratio with the addition of the newly upgraded cards and summoners. We'll see how that goes.

I did sign up for as many tourneys as possible, however, when I switched to Gold most of the silver tourneys and all of the bronze ones became unplayable for me due to the restrictive pricing for Gold level players. That was kind of underwhelming but I guess I might try signing up to as many tourneys as possible in the beginning of the season while I am still in Silver.

Decent earnings for the amount of tourneys I have entered.

As I mentioned in the first section, I've received a total of 36 cards. That is a bit less than the amount of cards I got last season (41).

The 7 packs I've received definitely make a difference. I hope I will keep getting at least a few packs per season in Gold.

I don't think the SPS number for the captured SPS from ranked play is correct right now. I definitely think I've earned a bit more than that since the DEC to SPS change.

The SPS report just does not look sexy when the airdrop is no longer on it but oh well.. it is what it is. I did earn some SPS from staking but that's nothing compared to the 1000 SPS airdrop I had in my last report before the airdrop ended.

My rental report looks pretty good thanks to the service provided by Splex.gg. I'm renting out all my duplicate cards. Not touching anything from my main deck though so about 13.5K DEC from duplicates is pretty nice. I expect a drastic reduction in this amount for the upcoming season as I am hard at work combing cards (as I have already mentioned).

Let's see how the new system treats the poor ol' Bronze players or in this case my poor Bronze alt account.😁 Here's the breakdown of the screenshot containing 94 Bronze Chests:

21 Legendary Potions;
11 Alchemy Potions;
1.324 SPS;
a total of 26 cards - 2 epics
66 Merits;

So again the rewards are in line with the % distribution provided by the team.

Let's have a look at my total earnings for the month on this account for 642 chests (most of them Broze a few dozens - Silver).

2,200 DEC;
10 SPS;
167 cards - 4 epics; 1 GF common
706 Merits;
109 Legendary potions;
97 Alchemy potions;

I am actually very pleased with what I have gotten so far for the month. Compared to what Bronze players used to get there is just no comparison actually.

I played only Modern this season and I am planning to just sticking to Modern going forward. I am pleased that I am maintaining a decent win rate on this alt as I am not really deeply involved when playing my daily battles on it. There is more it though. For the first time I decided to advance to Silver about 4-5 days before the end of the season. I jumped straight into Silver I cause I had enough rating coming from high Bronze for it. I was surprised by the amount of level 1 and level 2 Summoners in low-rating Silver I. I had a few days with pretty good amount of SIlver chests cause of that. This also help me boost my season chests to 94. I am planning to keep doing the same. However, I will be obviously earning Silver season chests and not Bronze.

I have participated in 6 Novice/Bronze tourneys this season. I actually feel I did well having in mind the fact that my collection is very far away from competitive in Bronze as I am missing key tournament cards.