There is definitely a difference between the ranks.
Bronze is pretty much just new players, or ones who have missed a few seasons, because you can literally throw a potato at your computer a bunch of times and you’ll eventually climb out.
Silver is for pretty casual players who don’t really care about getting better, or don’t know how I guess.(or just love to meme way too hard)
Gold has some hybrid casual/competitive players in it, they normally do want to climb out of gold, but they sometimes have mental blocks that prevent them doing well. Such as playing very nich archtypes and refusing to use certain “Op” cards.(his is by no means a bad thing if thats how they like to play)
Diamond has players who are good at the game and like to play to win (mostly). They’re often pretty grindy and all want to be in S because its so damn close.
S-ranker are in three categories pretty much, either Diamond players who grind and grind and grind to get from rank 1 into S (most Srankers start out like this), they normally get in towards the end of the season and chill in +100 S rank. And then there’s the really good players, who get in before half way through and are normally top 100 or more. And also there’s the memers, they usually play serious decks into S rank, then just meme for the rest of the season because S rank is a magical place where loosing doesn’t matter.
The difference between rank is significant at all parts of the ladder, even the difference between high and low S rank is pretty big.
Card collection is somewhat a factor, but not a defining one in the ladder; however higher ranked players often have fuller collections as they’ve played more (and won more) than the lower ranked ones on average.(plus higher season end rewards)
Who’d have known…
