"Let's Play Some Ranked"

It's wrong to make playing ranked games an essential mission. In the past, the reward for such mission was rather small, some amount of XP or such. In the current set, this mission is essential to completing all of the missions for the Chest. Also, no substitute (such as playing twice as many normal matches) was offerred.

New players don't need encouragement to enter ranked play before they are ready. Searching through the forum history throughout the ages, we have always advised them to wait some time (like 200 normal matches post-lvl 30, for example) to enter the ranked environment. With the creation of an even lower caste than Bronze, this advice should be reinforced, not relegated.

Missions like these, are the devil in this game, and contribute to misery and frustration.