so master duel start to lock gold rank?

[M1a0Ming123]

I surrender many times and can't lower the rank now. Konami really want to force us and meet more high rank toxic meta deck players

[Pastor Shotty McBangJump]

Yeah, they added a new rank, so everything got moved up one tier.

Plat is the new Gold.

[Papa Shekels]

Yeah, you can't stomp on children who are learning the game anymore by constantly surrendering. Tragic

[Merilirem]

Originally posted by Papa Shekels:

Yeah, you can't stomp on children who are learning the game anymore by constantly surrendering. Tragic

You absolutely can, those children are now in plat because they can't avoid it either. Konami didn't really do anything with this update. Just made it take longer to reach the actual ranks.

[TormentedSalad]

Originally posted by Papa Shekels:

Yeah, you can't stomp on children who are learning the game anymore by constantly surrendering. Tragic

I mean you can you'll just be doing it with a blue medal instead of a gold one

[Taweret]

idk i only played tearlaments through gold

[Zaebore]

Just pace yourself. I only do ranked games every 3 days since I only do it for the daily. When I finish most or all of my daily gems I go and play full casual. I even derank on purpose to find and play games that I find enjoyable or want to play against. This is how I stay and float in the same rank within the month while finding a handful of people playing and using different decks a lot of the time.

[Astrallight]

Originally posted by Merilirem:

Originally posted by Papa Shekels:

Yeah, you can't stomp on children who are learning the game anymore by constantly surrendering. Tragic

You absolutely can, those children are now in plat because they can't avoid it either. Konami didn't really do anything with this update. Just made it take longer to reach the actual ranks.

And with less gems as reward. More grind less rewards.

[Merilirem]

Originally posted by Astrallight:

Originally posted by Merilirem:

You absolutely can, those children are now in plat because they can't avoid it either. Konami didn't really do anything with this update. Just made it take longer to reach the actual ranks.

And with less gems as reward. More grind less rewards.

How is there less rewards? More grind sure but its offset by being unable to go down with losses. So for most its about the same since a loss would increase grind anyway. Now everyone is in plat when they start needing to win. Did I miss a gem decrease because if not it should be more gems for those actually playing the game. Plat is still higher gems right?

[M1a0Ming123]

well, i want to stay at gold just because want to test new decks, new series, new combo, and etc. Just want to avoid more toxic meta players

[Raven]

Originally posted by M1a0Ming123:

well, i want to stay at gold just because want to test new decks, new series, new combo, and etc. Just want to avoid more toxic meta players

Erm...honestly, its hard to be toxic (not impossible) when your opponent can't communicate with you, so that's a weird hangup. But what is the point of "testing" a deck if you avoid meta? Just say you want to play a game that's more even casually then trying to justify it with testing if you want to rule out the most common decks people play.

[Merilirem]

Originally posted by Raven:

Originally posted by M1a0Ming123:

well, i want to stay at gold just because want to test new decks, new series, new combo, and etc. Just want to avoid more toxic meta players

Erm...honestly, its hard to be toxic (not impossible) when your opponent can't communicate with you, so that's a weird hangup. But what is the point of "testing" a deck if you avoid meta? Just say you want to play a game that's more even casually then trying to justify it with testing if you want to rule out the most common decks people play.

Testing without the Meta in mind is a thing, its just more about your decks general functions as opposed to the specific ability to face a certain meta. Lots of decks lose hard to certain Meta's but are still functional decks. That said avoiding the Meta entirely isn't a terribly good idea since understanding how a Meta works is helpful in understanding how the game and your own deck works.

This person does likely prefer a lower level of play. I don't imagine they like facing the non-meta power decks either. People who use the word toxic to describe faceless players using certain decks usually apply that word to anything they just don't like personally.

[Kaulu]

Originally posted by M1a0Ming123:

well, i want to stay at gold just because want to test new decks, new series, new combo, and etc. Just want to avoid more toxic meta players

Everyone else in your position is also being pushed into plat, so you'll still be seeing a lot of the same people. You'll just miss those who play less frequently and haven't gotten enough wins yet to move into plat.

[Prokaizer]

Gold if full of copy paste Branded / Shadoll / Tearlaments anyways.
People don't play meta in Bronze / Silver, but guess what, after 10 wins you are Gold.
Most joke ranking mechanics ever "you cannot downgrade your rank".
Even in League of Legends you can drop your rank if you are willing to.
Here "you have to go away from the game for 5 months, in order to rank up after 5 games lol".

Fking joke.