If you're a low-budget Splinterlands player who doesn't own a plethora of cards, maybe playing in Modern League isn't the right choice for you. Even if you own only Chaos Legion, Riftwatchers and current Reward cards only, Wild League can still be of more benefit to you than Modern League. As long as you're willing to rent a few cards, you can get farther in Wild than you would in Modern.
Since maxing cards for a given rank is a lot more affordable in Modern than in Wild, you'll constantly face against strong opponents. Lots of humans who have spent their money in current packs use Modern League as practice for Modern tournaments. Meanwhile, you might not even have enough cards to compete in Modern tournaments, let alone own the SPS stake they require.
If you look at Wild League, there are a lot less human players outside leaderboard competitors. Despite being very useful, not that many people use PeakMonsters to rent extra cards specifically for a gameplay advantage. Those you aren't willing to learn to use PeakMonsters hardly ever rent any cards because it's tedious and stressing to use Splinterlands' official rentals interface. Start renting to get a major advantage.
Modern League doesn't offer a better SPS pool or chests than Wild League does, so you actually have no reason to play in Wild if you're not thinking of tournaments at any time soon. Wild League requires more collection power to advance your rank, but if you're following the same collection strategy as me, you'll end up owning enough CP very quickly.
Just so you can really grasp what kind of teams you'll be up against in silver 1 at the 12th day into the season, look at the image below. Note that all cards are only 1 BCX.
Also note that every card used by my opponents are from Modern, or rather, Chaos Legion. Anything powerful you'd rent would rake in plenty of wins. So give it a shot, because it just might be that much easier for you like it is for me.
