before yes you had to pay 2 bucks to start but besides that with skill alone you could get good cards and go up the ranks, which was the case for me, now i cant get past silver 2 as i refuse to spend hundreds of dollars, guess what ? all the bots are stuck down here with me too so now i get the privilege of dealing with the garbage they refused to deal with, the new rank system fixes nothing and instead passed the bot problem to low level players.