seki108

I'm not sure about that, since a lot of the time it's: Turn on the game, hope autoduel doesn't act like a drunk toddler against the NPC duelist, and maybe do event stuff.  Most of my PVP stuff is in Gold, so only mid-way skilled if that, with some occasional progress in Platinum (even making Plat 4 once during the Sylvan infestation).

Really the gems are more occasional grinding than high tier rewards or anything.   Plus, Konami is deceptively generous with gems around the World Championship time to make people forget how stingy they can be the rest of the year.

Recently I've been using a halfway functioning Nephthys ritual deck, though it can really brick.  I spent a lot of gems on a six sam deck, though I usually only use it for end of the month pushes (or getting past the DLV 20s in the WCQ a week or so back).  Until Ancient Gears came, I was using U.A. but that field spell just have them free Reactor Dragon setup.

...! Too many info at once(), but I got you. You're using mostly meta decks, and you're really all about that grind. BTW, If I'm really trying I get to gold 3 and currently I'm basically running some decks I've created (an archfiend deck, and a plant related deck).

That's where a lot of gems have gone in the past, though some of the EX structure decks that come out can equal or topple those with some creativity and outside support.  I never fully commit to buying enough of the SR and URs of an archetype, so the decks turn out to be half-assed more than effective......and sadly Nephytis without Yubel probably isn't too meta.

Probably my favorite deck has been Aliens, which falls in and out of relevance but is still cheap in gems.  There have been some decks I were pretty fun though not currently meta (Aquactress, Toon DMG, Gladiators), and Aromage is the go-to FTP/non-grind deck.  Usually it's some skrewing around in PVP most of the month, then a rush at the end of the month to collect some rewards with a meta deck.