Adapting to Modern: Embracing A New Season with Mixed Feelings

Prelude
I am back again on my series on Adapting to Modern where I look at how I crossed over from playing in Wild Battles till today on Modern Battles, sharing with the community the struggles, the strategies and things I do to move towards playing in Modern. While I am trying my best to clock up more Glint, all I had was losses. Did I deteriorate in my skill sets or I had some memory lapse? None of the 2 I mentioned earlier happened but something else did happen.

What Is It?
Somehow in the past few days when I tried battling in Silver, I am effectively battling a tonne of max level lineups. And this is really very de-moralizing. With the removal of the league restrictions, it has become a very tough battle every season now trying to even have proper matches. I understand it is the company's direction to push for players to own more and higher level assets. While it is achievable, it is not exactly easy to gather so many cards and challenge all the whales whom probably all have max out cards. It might be enjoyable for those whom have max level cards to terrorize lower levelled players, the unfair advantage just makes matches not very playable. In a series of 10 matches where most of your opponents are playing with almost fully levelled collection, it is certainly an uphill battle.

This might be due to 2 possible reasons, the first being that everybody upgraded all their cards while I am still slowly catching up or probably the players with smaller collection just exit the game totally. I am not exactly sure what's the true reason of this. But I do like the game and will continue building up my collection. Need to find a way to overcome this battling of max levelled collection somehow and the associated demoralization.

Chaos Legion Soul Bound
Right now, I don't think the amount of Glint I gathered the past few days will see me being able to build up my collection sufficiently and thus with what I have, the plan will be to attempt 3-4 Legendary card draws in hope of getting the Legendary cards that I am missing in my collection have a better spread of utility cards which I can deploy them because thankfully Legendary cards at level are already good. I will do the chest draw tomorrow and hopefully something good will come out of it to help me become stronger and more viable in the silver league that I am playing right now.

All Doom and Gloom?
Maybe not. There is definitely still the Rebellion Soul Bound cards to look forward to. I did not gather sufficiently for the Chaos Legion ones, so hopefully I can be more successful in the Rebellion ones. While I settle my lack of win bit by bit, I do hope things will turn around and get better for Splinterlands. One thing that we really need is to bring visibility to the game and have more new players onboard. Through that, there will be a bigger diversity for players and more movement in the market. And we are stagnant about it, it will spell trouble for us as it will be end a small circle competing with one another. Hopefully various efforts during campaigns or rallies can help bring a new wave of newcomers to the game and bring back the vibrancy to the game.

Wrap Up
There is always ups and down in life and also in game. I hope I can overcome my gloom and charge forth into the new season and who knows things will turn for the better. I am looking to continue growing my collection especially specific colours to be more viable in the league I am playing and also for the love of the game.

Let's continue to grow and find path in modern as we journey on playing Splinterlands.

See you next time!

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