All that glitters is not gold - The Wealthy Gambit Performance

I hope you all are doing well in your life and also enjoying the Splinterlands game. Lots of things have been going/happening in splinterlands over the past few days. Zyriel sell has been started, No-bot on the Modern Ranked game and today's market fees revamp proposal. If you follow my blog, then you will notice I shared my tournament-winning and top battles of those tournaments, usually, I shared about those tournaments where I become champion or runner-up but today it's different. Today I am going to share how I performed in Diamond/Champion wild league gold foil tournament with my modern gold league gold foil deck. This time I switched my main deck with my alt account (ts-warrior).

It's not the first time I participated in this tournament with a gold league cap modern deck. All the other times either I lost in round 1 or was rarely promoted into the final round but got placed at 30th or high position.

But still, it was profitable because as you can see on the reward structure from 25-30th will get 1512 SPS & 33-40th placeholders will get 1008 SPS. So by spending 210 SPS to participate in this tournament if I manage to win a few battles, I can get more SPS than I spend as an entry fee. But this time it was kind of a miracle to me, because this time I was not even promoted to the final round, I got a place in the top 12 and snatched a large amount of SPS.

There was no fled this time. In the first round, 10 battles were successfully played and out of those 10 battles, I won 7 battles and lost 3 battles. Those 3 losses were against Imperfect-one, Byzantinist & Jaki01. Imperfect-one & Jaki01 both had max gold foil deck, but the other 7 battles I won also had max deck but I was able to defeat them. Byzantinist had wild gold league gold foil deck. As I said above it was a wild tournament, so having wild gold foils has an extra benefit over the modern deck. If you guys noticed my card collection then you guys will see I only have gold foil Modern league set and the others are regular foil cards, Thats mean my Alpha, Beta, their subset (ORB) and Reward cards of those editions are regular foil cards. But, I have gold foil collection of Untamed & Chaos and their subset (Dice, Riftwatchers). So because of that, I had less chance to do well in the wild gold foil tournament, but this time luck was on my side. In the final round, Out of 8 battles, I lost only 3 battles and those are against Hornman, Wolf-sl & Vugtis. I managed to defeat Wolf-sl in round 1 but lost against him in the final round. Other than those 3 battles all other battle was amazing and I am quite impressed with the result. I enjoyed those battles and even watched some battles a couple of times. So let's check out some of my top battles.

⚔️ THE BATTLE ⚔️

Ruleset	Mana	Active Elements

This was my second battle of round 1 and my opponent was Wolf-sl. So, as you guys know it was a Champion League wild match, all edition cards will be available for the battle. Starting with the ruleset, there were 2 rulesets active and those are (Counterspell) - All monsters receive the Magic Reflect ability at the start of the battle & (Earthquake) - All non-flying monsters take 2 physical damage at the end of every turn. It was a 25 low mana match. As you guys can see above Wolf used level 4 SCARRED LLAMA MAGE as a summoner and as a tank he used Pelacor Mercenary maxed card, then on the second position he used Epona which is a very useful support monster on low mana match and then the game changer suicide monster Venari Marksrat and at the end gold foil level 2 legendary beta card Spirit of the Forest. So his plan was actually to enable the last stand ability on either Pelacor Mercenary or Spirit of the Forest , both have flying ability so there won't be any damage from the earthquake ruleset. But Pelacor Mercenary will have more advantages than Spirit of the Forest , because it is a (melee) attack monster, so it can attack from the front position but Spirit of the Forest (Range) attack monster, so it can't attack from front position (without special ruleset/ability). Pelacor Mercenary also has (heal) ability which restores 1/3 of the max health, So having last-stand on this monster will recover huge amount of health. Pelacor Mercenary also has (retaliate) monsters with retaliate ability has 50% chance of attacking their (melee) attacker.

Now from my side, I used the same summoner but gold league cap level 3 SCARRED LLAMA MAGE, It was a low mana game that's why my main target was to use Pelacor Mercenary with his maximum potential power. As I can't use max level Pelacor Mercenary that's why I have no (retaliate) ability on my card, but I maximized the attack by using 2 suicidal monsters on both sides of Pelacor Mercenary. It was an earthquake ruleset match, I only had 1 monster with a flying ability and all other monsters was non-fly monsters. So those will die at first and for that reason, I used 2 (martyr) ability monsters Fungus Flinger & Venari Marksrat. Pelacor Mercenary become a beast with double (martyr) and (Last Stand) boosts. These boosts not only helped Pelacor Mercenary with a large attack number it also increase attack speed and health and for that reason opponent missed many attacks. It was a pretty long match, the battle goes till round 26 and at the end my Pelacor Mercenary last to live on the battleground.