I believe step 4 is: donât be a dick to your new friendsâŚ
Casual Mode Needed
I doubt that a casual mode will achieve what you want.
If it gives out rewards, then there will be plenty of S and D playing it, to do quests with weaker factions and stomping new players.
If it doesnât, there will be complains about the lack of rewards. Also a similar mode already exists with Challenge a friend.
Maybe casual mode should not be accessible to S or Diamond rank players. Furthermore what if certain cards were used and there was a limit to how many copies of the same card you could have?
Or simply have an mmr used for pairing in casual mode as well, just like other games. That way people can make their quests in casual mode with factions they arenât comfortable with and donât have to worry about their ladderrank while at the same time prevent abuse from highranked players.
That being said, I donât think a casual mode would help op at all. If he canât leave rank 20 anyway then casual mode wouldnât change much. He isnât losing rank at rank 20. His problem is the ladderreset.
In my opinion Rift is intended as the casual mode people want and I expect it to come back before mobile release.
I think ancient bonds could have been this if you exclude what faie & co got. I see few problems with other factions, and they all seem to be in a fairly decent spot.
Also the Magmar tools are quite busted, which explains why Vaath and Faie have been dominating the ladder for the last 3 months. I expect a couple of nerfs coming and I hope the expansion will give good tools to reshape the meta again.
What are friends for? 
Duelyst log: 16th of June. I can now safely venture up to Rank 15. It has been tough going. One Vaath I played used 3 plasma storms in a row and beat me. I shuddered at the power of his topdecking. I will report further if I survive. Hold me.
Related note and question - I myself am only around rank 13/12 right now, yet am consistently pitted with people who have ribbons and experience that are multiples higher than I ever did during my gold climbing in the past.
Where I used to see people with around 3 or so ribbons, in the last ten matches or so, at least half of them had more than 7 or so (2 recent was a 12 ribbon songhai and 7 ribbon magmar player - both playing their main factions, and by 12, i mean 12 of JUST songhai alone, not including the other faction ribbons they had).
This isnât a complaint at all, but more of trying to understand whatâs going on.
Were they also from silver? or were they in gold or diamond?
I was dueling them in silver, I have no idea if they are gold or diamond.
Doesnât it show you under their name?
Youâre right. Gold, 7 ribbons on magmar with 17 ribbons total (i have 3: 2 song, 1 vanar)
it could be older players testing âdifferentâ decks. Or they could be returning after a long haitus
Yeah, most likely people coming back after leaving the game. Iâve seen a lot of people doing that recently.
You can only pick one
FineâŚ

Balanced
If I can only pick one then I will go for having the expansion 
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