Playing Bronze or Silver when you are new player can be a bit of a boring grind as Splinterlands is rigged for wealth. It doesn't matter how much skill you have you will always lose out to wealthy players/bots with Lorcus or Tofu. You've just wasted $10, right?
The Escalation packs have 1 card that can help you out if you are willing to lay out another 59c for a gold or around 52c for a regular PHLEGMOST. You need him at level 3 as he will slap taunt onto anyone that has killed you with a lot of power. This means that all your cards now target the threat.
Here is an example battle with me using a Foundations water Archon
https://splinterlands.com/battle/sl_70d62d46f85af061e34815957c17cb11?ref=sugar-fix
Obviously I've got some pretty powerful cards myself but these are mostly rented. There is no way in hell that I can afford to rent or buy a Lorcus or those high damage cards.
Yep another short post but I believe I shouldn't waste your time with garbage posts that are mostly filler. Any questions just ask