I have been playing Splinterlands for years now but I haven’t really looked at the new Rebellion cards and the way Modern Ranked play has changed as a result. I keep hearing that the Rewards are better in Modern but my own playing deck that I use for Brawls is stacked with Beta and Untamed cards so I’ve left Modern alone until now because I can’t use them there. However, I am curious and I like to tinker so I’ve decided to conduct a bit of an experiment and rent some cards specifically to try out Modern Ranked.
I have a dormant account that I have used on and off for a while to support my Guild and it DOES have a few Soulbound Chaos and Gladius cards on it that will no doubt help, but otherwise I am renting everything that I need. First order of business was to rent some SPS and I went for 25K over 7 days at 0.005 DEC per SPS per day. With the nominal listing fee that’s a cost of 876 DEC off the bat and my Glint Boost has started off the experiment at x20.
Once I secured some SPS I’ve then budgeted 2,000 DEC for 2 rental stints of 2 days each. Each rental stint will give me a fully charged 50 Energy plus 48 recharging over the 2 days, so I’m expecting to get about 196 games in over the course of this week at a total cost of just (2000 x 2) + 876 = 4876 DEC. That’s Under $5 USD for a good test of Modern Ranked which makes this an experiment that anyone could try out themselves cheaply.
The first thing that I noticed when renting cards for Modern is that the Chaos cards are super cheap compared to the new Rebellion ones. When renting I normally choose MAX card level on PeakMonsters and then sort the options by Best Price to pick up all the cheapest cards first. As it’s turned out on my first rental stint I haven’t rented a single Rebellion card because the price jump between the editions is so severe. The rough amounts I’ve spent on each splinter in DEC is Fire 130, Water 145, Earth 130, Life 155, Death 195, Dragon 125 and Neutral 120. My Life and Death splinters are a bit higher because I use Grandmaster Rathe and Astral Entity so it’s worth spending a bit more on those splinters to support the stronger Summoners as they will be my preferred choices in matches when the Mana Limit is higher.
So far I’ve played about 24 games and have blasted my way up through the Novice and Bronze tiers to hit Silver. My rented deck is way overpowered for these low tiers so this is no great achievement, but I am hoping to get comfortably up into Gold tier on this first rental stint. It’ll be the 2nd rental stint where I’ll max out my rank somewhere and be able to make a reasonable assessment of what the rewards are really like. Wish me luck and I’ll see you on the battlefield!
