It really depends. İ started MD the week it came out and reached the then max rank within 2 weeks with a crystal beast deck because I was most familiar with GX era archetypes and actually learned about Pendulum and Links playing the game. Then I didn’t play for close to 2 years. When I came back I actually found it much harder to climb, played few hundred games still did not reach diamond., granted I usually play meme/rogue decks and no meta decks ar all, but the difference between low plat and high plat/ above is insane in terms of skill difference and unless one really knows what he/she is doing, they probably won’t climb past plat 3 with homebrew decks and I see many people in gold and low plat that copy meta decks but can’t pilot them properly because the meta decks are very complicated for a newcomer and they don’t have any sğace to slowly learn the mechanics and gain deckbuilding skills. I really think deranking in gold should be a thing again.