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It'd be nice if Zanz released stats about how much each league is played. My guess is silver/gold is played the most, while platinum is played the least.- I thought rewards for winning were inversely proportional to number of plays (or deck wins?) league gets.
- What do you do when their opening is SUPERNOVA SUPERNOVA SUPERNOVA and suddenly your one devourer needs to do quite a bit of work to drain that resulting 72 quanta your opponent is going to have? Then they play whatever lava destroyers they have and you're patiently waiting to draw one of those 2 vampires and fractal them for healing. 3/5 games go just like this one, so I don't know what makes this pretty good response to gold league.
Modded Jen-i's "Better way to pestal" does pretty well in gold.
I made an animate druidic staff deck which won half its games with EM, giving me stacks of electrum every game i won, very profitable, though it needed two nymphs- I tried it without nymphs and with bunch of upped towers and pendulums I had from USEM. The problem was that it's quite slow to win and has no counters to either permanents or creatures. If opponent steals your Thorn Carapace, it's the end of your adrenaline'd Druidic Staves.
That's not how it works. Otherwise, winning with 1 HP gives you ~0-1- You only pay the cost of battle if you lose. The reward scales with health left when you won the match. I'm not sure where the lower bar is., meaning there's a net loss (you paid to fight silver/gold/whatever)
I'm pretty sure that Arena is more profitable than AI3. In addition, I don't see how "unpredictability of decks" can cause games to be "much slower".- Arena decks have usually more than 100 hp, which takes more time to burn down. AI3 decks are all predictable and easy to learn. In arena, however, there's more variance. You can't know how much creature control any deck is going to have, so you'll have to trick the AI into wasting their CC on useless creatures. Some decks that are "sure winners" with cards like quintessences and shields packed into them tend to be slower. Unpredictability is the reason for making those slow decks.
If you have enough upgrades, Arena is WAY more profitable than AI3 farming. Unupped or mostly unupped, though, you aren't likely to be able to beat gold/platinum, which is where the money is. (bronze/silver just don't pay off, and AI3 probably is more profitable than those levels in terms of score/electrum)- Do you have idea what decks would be consistent winners in gold league?
Arena is definitely more profitable than AI3 not only because of the electrum won in the higher leagues (Gold and Platinum) but also the higher chances of getting rares. Also, a win in Silver league gives around 50 electrum, which is more than an EM in AI3, not 26 electrum.- Win with 100 health gives 52 electrum currently, which is then doubled if it's also elemental mastery. Reward scales with health. I'm assuming average non-EM win happens with 50 health left, which would reduce the reward by 50% to 26.
