I've always played with gold cards. After a long break, I didn't have my gold cards. After the Splinterlands update, I bought about 40 of the cheapest max level gold cards, I rented inexpensive max level summoners. Now I play every day for profit in gold league 1, I rent some gold cards for $0.30 per day. And I wanted to increase my SPS stack 4 times from 25k to 100k.
It’s difficult for beginners to play without significant investments, and if you want to invest, you need to know which cards are profitable to buy. But personally, I have now become more interested in playing and investing. I have hope for a continuation of the bull market and the SPS price above $0.10 :)