One of the things that I considered soon after the season rating reset change was whether or not there was a strategy to stay in Silver but also fight in Gold for the last few days plus for the season chests. I looked into this option and I don't think it is something that is worth the effort or to cripple my own deck to make that happen.
What is required?
In order to do this, I need the following point to have this work. In this case, I would need to be at Gold II at the highest for it to work out as it would reset me into Silver I at the start of the next season.
- Collection Power less than 100k at the end of the season.
This means that I need to lower my collection power in order to get this to work and when I look at my cards, I just don't think it is possible to stay competitive while doing so. To do so, I need to either sell or rent out my cards at the end of the season. It will cause the following:
- 1 DEC fee per card for putting up the rental card
- fewer cards for me to use in battles and thus decreasing my options in fights
With the disadvantages above, I don't think it is worth it because there are cards that can't be rented out either and this contributes towards the 100k collection power that I need to stay under. So as time passes and I collect more cards, the amount of cards that I can use will also drop.
My collection power
The first thing to consider is my collection power and the first one that I consider is Gladius. The collection power that I have here is 12.5k collection power from this alone. I obviously can't rent these cards out so that already decreases the cap by 12.5k and I don't want to burn any of these cards.
Next up is the soulbound cards that are out right now. I have 9,355 collection power from this and with the Gladius cards, it's almost 22k collection power that I lost from my cap. With this, it means that there are around 78k available for the rest and this number will only go down as I collect more rewards.
I decided to check out my summoners and I fight in gold foil brawls so my options don't look that great. If I include all my summoners, I have over 40k collection power but if I were to limit it down to what I need to use, I would require 20k DEC. I wouldn't want to drop down my collection power further than that or I would suffer in terms of brawls and ranked battles.
This would leave 60k for the rest of my cards and I just don't think it would work out for the cards. If I have to add in the level 5 common, level 4 rare, epic, and legendary cards. In that case, 60k is not enough because I need gold foil cards for brawls. A legendary card is worth 500/1000 collection points. This is the same for a level 4 rare card and the gold foil cards are worth 5 times as much as a normal variant. Managing the collection power when I am getting more gladius and soulbound cards just doesn't seem that appealing to me.
Conclusion
It's not possible for me to do this strategy and considering the number of cards I would have to put up each time, it's a huge time sink. However, if this works out for you, then feel free to use it but it requires calculating the collection power each season for it to work out.
Feel free to leave a comment if you read my post. If you have any questions, feel free to ask and I will do my best to answer.