炉石传说段位详解

Where every account restarts on the first of the month. Bronze is designed to be crossed rather than played: a returning player with any Star Bonus at all will clear all ten ranks in a handful of games, because each win is worth several stars instead of one.

The first league where opponents have a full deck rather than a pile of cards. Mulligans are still random and removal gets spent on the wrong target, so an aggressive deck with a clear curve wins here almost regardless of the meta.

A large share of the monthly playerbase finishes in and around Gold. Decks are recognisable netdecks and the play patterns are mostly right, but board trades get taken when the face was lethal two turns later. Gold 10 is the first floor most players deliberately aim for.

Opponents play around your removal and hold cards for the turn they matter. Platinum is where knowing the meta decks by their first three plays starts winning games on its own, because you can play around a card before it is drawn.

The last league before Legend, and the point where the ladder slows sharply: the win-streak bonus stops applying at Diamond 5, so every win from there is a single star and the final five ranks take longer than the previous forty-five.

The highest rank in Hearthstone, and the only one with no stars: on reaching it you are given a numbered position on your region leaderboard instead, and it moves every game you play. Legend is also permanent for the month — you cannot fall out of it once you arrive.