On the first day, I reached Gold league (around 1900 rating points) with only 84 DEC spent on rentals. I documented it [here](https://peakd.com/hive-13323/@jacekw/testing-splinterlands-new-rental-system-peakmonsters-interface-1-from-0-to-gold-league-with-only-84-dec-spent-on-rentals). Next step was to reach Diamond league on the second day and then Champion league on the last day, but I decided to try to reach Champion on the second day. So whole test took only 2 days (2 x 1-day rental contracts). As a reminder - I played account [@sm-skynet](https://beta.peakmonsters.com/@sm-skynet/battlechain).

On the first day, I rented very few cards, but I knew that this time I need a lot of POWER (500k) so I will need to rent a lot of cards, to meet POWER requirement. So decided a different approach this time and rent a lot of cheap cards instead of just a couple of powerful cards. Also I wanted to avoid renting just for POWER.

I wanted to rent at least 1 summoner for each splinter. I chose either the cheapest one (**Qid Yuff, Vera Selacia, Contess L'ament, Mother Khala, Wizard of Eastwood**) or strong summoner if it was rather cheap anyway (alpha **Selenia Sky** for 38 DEC daily and **Delwyn Dragonscale**). Selenia Sky was slightly more expensive than other dragon summoners like Daria Dragonscale / Camila Sungazer etc but it's a stronger summoner). Although Quid Yuff and Vera Selacia are the weakest summoners for Fire and Water splinter, they were so cheap (below 4 DEC daily) that I decided to rent them.

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Next step was to try to rent as many cheap cards as possible. Of course I rented only those that ... I thought won't be useless.

**Common** monsters:

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Some of them were really cheap...


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<sub>5 minutes later I realized I didn't really rent these 2 DEC cards because someone else was faster haha!</sub>

**Rare** monsters:

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As a reminder, to find the best deals just use **Low Price (Level)** sortable column. And set **Level** field to the level you want.

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**Epic and Legendary** monsters:

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**Grenadier** was a great deal. I rented only two legendaries because everything else was too expensive. And these 2 turned out to be really useful.


I started playing but after a couple of battles,, I realized that I don't have enough cards to win battles. And what is more important there was no strong splinter. I decided to focus on **Earth** splinter and rent more important cards. 

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**Failed Summoner, Khmer Princess, Child of Forest, Screeching Vulture, Brownie** are really, really strong Earth cards. And except Khmer Princess, there were rather cheap. **Sometimes renting Gold Foil is cheaper than renting Regular Foil** (Khmer Princess, Child of the Forest).

And of course I had to rent the most important cards too:
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**Tip of the day**
If you want to rent a lot of cards at once, you should be fast. Or rent in batches. Other people are renting too! Otherwise instead of cards you will get this error:
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Earth splinter was already quite strong, but I decided to make Fire splinter a bit stronger too. And I rented these Untamed cards:

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And these Reward cards:

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Sometimes you want to rent maxed level (or a specific level) to get all important abilities (Khmer Princess). But sometimes low level is enough anyway.


It took 147 battles total to reach 3700+ points. But I had not enough power to advance to champion league. Only 325k POWER, so I was short of 175k POWER. As I wasn't going to play more I decided to rent cards with the best POWER/cost ratio. (yeah, I tried to avoid it at first, but at this point, it didn't make sense to rent more useful but more expensive cards).

I rented 18 Gold Foil epic untamed cards (180k POWER).

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A lot of golds!
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I got 505k POWER, so enough to advance to Champion league.

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How much DEC have I earned?

**First day**
 - spent: 84.724 DEC
 - earned: 203.181 DEC
 - balance: 118.457

**Second day**
 - spent: 668.838 DEC
 - earned: 1269.279 DEC
 - balance: 600.441 DEC

It's 118.457 DEC + 600.441 DEC = 718.898 DEC, so not only rewards from ranked battles covered rental fees, but there is a small profit too. Let's not forget that there will be also season rewards and I got a lot of potions from quest loot boxes. 

And from the beginning, I just wanted to reach Champion and only break even! The main goal was to test the new rental system.

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## Usage / Win rate - Gold & Diamond

**SUMMONERS**
Usage% |     Summoner         |   W   |   L   | Win rate|
-------|----------------------|-------|-------|---------|
39.47% |   Wizard of Eastwood |    24 |     6 |  80.00% |
26.32% |          Selenia Sky |    18 |     2 |  90.00% |
15.79% |   Delwyn Dragonscale |    10 |     2 |  83.33% |
 6.58% |     Contessa L'ament |     3 |     2 |  60.00% |
 6.58% |             Qid Yuff |     3 |     2 |  60.00% |
 3.95% |         Mother Khala |     2 |     1 |  66.67% |
 1.32% |         Vera Salacia |     0 |     1 |   0.00% |

Wizard of Eastwood, Selenia Sky and Delwyn Dragonscale were the summoners that I tried to use whenever possible. And looks like it worked, because results are really good. If Earth and Dragon splinters were not available I had to use other sumomner (with weaker monsters). What is interesting, although Fire splinter was quite strong, I didn't play it too often because Earth was stronger anyway and Qid Yuff summoner is the worst Fire summoner in my opinion.

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**MONSTERS**
Usage% |     Monster         |   W   |   L   | Win rate|
-------|----------------------|-------|-------|---------|
47.37% | Screeching Vulture |    30 |     6 | 83.33% |
34.21% | Grenadier |    22 |     4 | 84.62% |
34.21% | Gelatinous Cube |    21 |     5 | 80.77% |
32.89% | Tower Griffin |    15 |    10 | 60.00% |
32.89% | Khmer Princess |    22 |     3 | 88.00% |
32.89% | Unicorn Mustang |    20 |     5 | 80.00% |
30.26% | Failed Summoner |    21 |     2 | 91.30% |
27.63% | Wood Nymph |    18 |     3 | 85.71% |
22.37% | Mushroom Seer |    16 |     1 | 94.12% |
21.05% | Stone Golem |    12 |     4 | 75.00% |
19.74% | Brownie |    12 |     3 | 80.00% |
18.42% | Nectar Queen |    10 |     4 | 71.43% |
17.11% | Furious Chicken |    13 |     0 | 100.00% |
15.79% | Gloridax Guardian |    10 |     2 | 83.33% |
15.79% | Javelin Thrower |    10 |     2 | 83.33% |
15.79% | Creeping Ooze |    12 |     0 | 100.00% |
14.47% | Goblin Thief |    10 |     1 | 90.91% |
13.16% | Darkest Mage |     7 |     3 | 70.00% |
13.16% | Death Elemental |     7 |     3 | 70.00% |
13.16% | Goblin Chariot |     5 |     5 | 50.00% |
11.84% | Scale Doctor |     8 |     1 | 88.89% |
 7.89% | Child of the Forest |     4 |     2 | 66.67% |
 6.58% | Bone Golem |     3 |     2 | 60.00% |
 5.26% | Frozen Soldier |     3 |     1 | 75.00% |
 5.26% | Cocatrice |     4 |     0 | 100.00% |
 5.26% | Living Lava |     2 |     2 | 50.00% |
 5.26% | Naga Windmaster |     2 |     2 | 50.00% |
 3.95% | Serpentine Spy |     2 |     1 | 66.67% |
 3.95% | Truthspeaker |     3 |     0 | 100.00% |
 2.63% | Flame Monkey |     2 |     0 | 100.00% |
 2.63% | Undead Priest |     2 |     0 | 100.00% |
 2.63% | Peacebringer |     1 |     1 | 50.00% |
 2.63% | Mantoid |     1 |     1 | 50.00% |
 2.63% | Centauri Mage |     1 |     1 | 50.00% |
 2.63% | Undead Badger |     1 |     1 | 50.00% |
 1.32% | Goblin Dartling |     1 |     0 | 100.00% |
 1.32% | Albatross |     1 |     0 | 100.00% |
 1.32% | Ice Pixie |     1 |     0 | 100.00% |
 1.32% | Kobold Bruiser |     1 |     0 | 100.00% |
 1.32% | Goblin Fireballer |     1 |     0 | 100.00% |
 1.32% | Crystal Werewolf |     1 |     0 | 100.00% |
 1.32% | Divine Healer |     1 |     0 | 100.00% |
 1.32% | Kobold Miner |     1 |     0 | 100.00% |
 1.32% | Pyromancer |     1 |     0 | 100.00% |
 1.32% | Ettin Spearman |     1 |     0 | 100.00% |
 1.32% | Naga Fire Wizard |     0 |     1 | 0.00% |
 1.32% | Beetle Queen |     0 |     1 | 0.00% |
 1.32% | Spark Pixies |     0 |     1 | 0.00% |
 1.32% | Elven Defender |     0 |     1 | 0.00% |
 1.32% | Silvershield Paladin |     0 |     1 | 0.00% |
 1.32% | Luminous Eagle |     0 |     1 | 0.00% |
 1.32% | Spineback Turtle |     0 |     1 | 0.00% |
 1.32% | Elven Mystic |     0 |     1 | 0.00% |
 1.32% | Crustacean King |     0 |     1 | 0.00% |
 1.32% | Skeleton Assassin |     0 |     1 | 0.00% |
 1.32% | Cursed Slimeball |     0 |     1 | 0.00% |

Screeching Vulture, Grenadier, Gelatinous Cube, Khmer Princess, Unicorn Mustang, Failed Summoner are really strong and useful. That's why I tried to rent them, even if I had to pay a quite high rental fee (Khmer Princess).

**What is interesting, I didn't really need half of the cards (used only once or never). So actually I could have reduced rental costs.** I think a more effective strategy would be to not rent all these cheap cards at the beginning, but focus on really useful ones for 1-2 splinters (Khmer Princess, Failed Summoner, Screeching Vulture etc) and then to rent cards with the best POWER/cost ratio.

But wait, remember when I said that Furious Chicken and Creeping Ooze are the most important monsters? I was not joking!

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## Usage / Win rate - Bronze & Silver

(I didn't included these stats in previous posts so let's look at them now)

**SUMMONERS**
Usage% |     Summoner         |   W   |   L   | Win rate|
-------|----------------------|-------|-------|---------|
48.48% |   Scarred Llama Mage |    30 |     2 |  93.75% |
22.73% |           Yodin Zaku |    13 |     2 |  86.67% |
 7.58% |      Zintar Mortalis |     3 |     2 |  60.00% |
 7.58% |        Lyanna Natura |     4 |     1 |  80.00% |
 3.03% |       Malric Inferno |     1 |     1 |  50.00% |
 3.03% |                 Pyre |     1 |     1 |  50.00% |
 3.03% |       Drake of Arnak |     0 |     2 |   0.00% |
 1.52% |      Kretch Tallevor |     1 |     0 | 100.00% |
 1.52% |   Alric Stormbringer |     1 |     0 | 100.00% |
 1.52% |         Mother Khala |     0 |     1 |   0.00% |

**MONSTERS**
Usage% |     Monster         |   W   |   L   | Win rate|
-------|----------------------|-------|-------|---------|
51.52% | Kron the Undying |    33 |     1 | 97.06% |
50.00% | Furious Chicken |    29 |     4 | 87.88% |
39.39% | Creeping Ooze |    23 |     3 | 88.46% |
36.36% | Failed Summoner |    21 |     3 | 87.50% |
24.24% | Khmer Princess |    15 |     1 | 93.75% |
19.70% | Serpentine Spy |     9 |     4 | 69.23% |
15.15% | Living Lava |     8 |     2 | 80.00% |
15.15% | Unicorn Mustang |     8 |     2 | 80.00% |
13.64% | Ferexia General |     9 |     0 | 100.00% |
13.64% | Centaur |     4 |     5 | 44.44% |
12.12% | Cerberus |     6 |     2 | 75.00% |
10.61% | Spark Pixies |     6 |     1 | 85.71% |
10.61% | Fire Beetle |     7 |     0 | 100.00% |
10.61% | Mantoid |     5 |     2 | 71.43% |
 7.58% | Goblin Fireballer |     4 |     1 | 80.00% |
 7.58% | Haunted Spirit |     2 |     3 | 40.00% |
 6.06% | Undead Priest |     2 |     2 | 50.00% |
 4.55% | Magnor |     2 |     1 | 66.67% |
 4.55% | Kobold Miner |     2 |     1 | 66.67% |
 4.55% | Cocatrice |     2 |     1 | 66.67% |
 4.55% | Peaceful Giant |     2 |     1 | 66.67% |
 4.55% | Sand Worm |     1 |     2 | 33.33% |
 4.55% | Child of the Forest |     2 |     1 | 66.67% |
 4.55% | Goblin Thief |     2 |     1 | 66.67% |
 4.55% | Goblin Sorcerer |     3 |     0 | 100.00% |
 4.55% | Undead Badger |     2 |     1 | 66.67% |
 3.03% | Serpentine Soldier |     2 |     0 | 100.00% |
 3.03% | Tower Griffin |     2 |     0 | 100.00% |
 3.03% | Tortisian Chief |     2 |     0 | 100.00% |
 3.03% | Goblin Chariot |     2 |     0 | 100.00% |
 3.03% | Fire Elemental |     2 |     0 | 100.00% |
 3.03% | Sniping Narwhal |     1 |     1 | 50.00% |
 3.03% | Giant Squid |     1 |     1 | 50.00% |
 3.03% | Cursed Slimeball |     2 |     0 | 100.00% |
 3.03% | Earth Elemental |     1 |     1 | 50.00% |
 3.03% | Twisted Jester |     1 |     1 | 50.00% |
 3.03% | Parasitic Growth |     0 |     2 | 0.00% |
 3.03% | Elven Cutthroat |     0 |     2 | 0.00% |
 1.52% | Silvershield Paladin |     1 |     0 | 100.00% |
 1.52% | Pyromaniac |     1 |     0 | 100.00% |
 1.52% | Rexxie |     1 |     0 | 100.00% |
 1.52% | Sea Monster |     1 |     0 | 100.00% |
 1.52% | Ruler of the Seas |     1 |     0 | 100.00% |
 1.52% | Goblin Shaman |     1 |     0 | 100.00% |
 1.52% | Mitica Headhunter |     1 |     0 | 100.00% |
 1.52% | Skeleton Assassin |     1 |     0 | 100.00% |
 1.52% | Death Elemental |     1 |     0 | 100.00% |
 1.52% | Flesh Golem |     0 |     1 | 0.00% |
 1.52% | Maggots |     0 |     1 | 0.00% |
 1.52% | Spineback Wolf |     0 |     1 | 0.00% |
 1.52% | Elven Defender |     0 |     1 | 0.00% |
 1.52% | Serpent of Eld |     0 |     1 | 0.00% |
 1.52% | Water Elemental |     0 |     1 | 0.00% |
 1.52% | Shieldbearer |     0 |     1 | 0.00% |
 1.52% | Magma Troll |     0 |     1 | 0.00% |
 1.52% | Bone Golem |     0 |     1 | 0.00% |
 1.52% | Cyclops |     0 |     1 | 0.00% |


Yeah... Llama and Kron all day. Or Zaku. That worked great in Bronze and Silver league.

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It looks like renting is a really great strategy but remember:
- There are not enough cards on the rental market for everyone, so better hurry up
- I am an outlier