How are you being "punished", if you can't spend at least some money to play? The game is not "free", and it has a cost attached to it to play. We all knew this would happen, and there was plenty of notice given both on discord and in previous posts. I also warned people that their will be an outcry based on a misunderstanding of how it's really supposed to work. Players with level 1 decks have been used to earning rewards way above their card levels for quite a while now because of the level 1 bots that have helped them rank higher as a consequence . It was never meant to be this way. The players who have been in the game from the beginning understand this, as many of us started from the bottom too, and then either worked our way up slowly, or payed a lot of money for our cards collections. Most silver decks a year ago or so, started in bronze/silver league at the beginning of the season and progressed to gold league by the end of the season, on average.

Players need to understand that there are many way to get better rewards. There are many many players with good card collections that want to help new players. Nobody wants to shaft them lol. You will be able to get deck delegations and find groups with sharing services based on splitting rewards that will offer you a way of getting a better ranking and rewards, without having to make a significant investment. The new rewards structure will also offer a way for players in the lower leagues to compete for prizes at their own league level. We never had these opportunities when we first started playing. The reality is, that new players will actually be much better off this way. With a bit of patience and understanding, things will improve for everyone as a result of these changes in the long run:)