I love your series, I agree with you on 99% things, but...
" as long as you’re constantly doing ok in Mythic on the weekends"
I started in last October, I am not F2P, but I almost never make it to Mythic. How can you do it, consistently? Are you grinding several hours every day? I play ~1h on weekdays and that's barely enough to keep me in the Gold ranks.
Thank you! But yea, I've fallen down to Solar Gold before with some of the bad WelCore decks, and grinding back to Mythic takes time. This week actually took me maybe 3-5 hours to grind back to Mythic, things are getting tough! Previously I was using a Wild Nature deck for my climbing but with the Deception meta, I switched to a very similar version of my Divine Order Deception deck to do so. If you don't have that much time for grinding, just play on the weekends and slowly work your way up. Weekends don't get too intense until around Diamond usually. Things will probably get tougher during the week when Daily Rewards happen too...