Ranked Seasons has long been the premier place to play competitively within Diamond Dynasty. With the lack of other competitive modes utilizing your built squad, it's really the only place to play in a structured environment. Ranked Solo and Co-Op has featured fresh rewards every month, and now that the game is being sunset, we're getting a chance to re-earn previous rewards.
Ranked Rewind
Playing through Ranked will look and feel identical to how it always does. The change comes from the rewards once reaching World Series at 800 rating.
Instead of a Choice Pack of new cards, there is a Ranked Rewind pack available that allows players who make it that far to choose from any previous Ranked reward from the entire year. Additionally, anyone reaching 1000+ rating will get a Rewind pack of the gold art versions exclusively available to those reaching 1000+ rating. I'll never reach that rating in Ranked, and I felt like this was one of the coolest additions to Diamond Dynasty this year.
Notably, this should also significantly lower the cost of these rewards and make it easier for the big collections to finally get completed for many players.
Multiplayer Forever Program
Finally, the multiplayer program mirrors the main XP Path with the Multiplayer Forever Program bringing back all previous Multiplayer Program rewards in one giant, grindable program.
Every single card previously available in the multiplayer grind can be earned again, in 5-star increments, just by playing multiplayer modes in Diamond Dynasty.
There's no Rewind packs here - just each individual card earned along the path.
There are, however, 10-total each of the Ranked and Battle Royale Flawless Choice packs. Again, this is a huge deal as it not only allows players an organic way to earn some of the more expensive cards in the game - the overall cost of these cards should drop sharply.
Earn progress in the program by completing the following missions:
Repeatable Missions
(Any multiplayer mode unless specified)
Ranked
- Get On Base 15 times — 5 stars
Battle Royale
- 4,000 PXP in one BR entry — 5 stars
Events
- 1 Win — 5 stars
Hits (any multiplayer mode)
- Tally 25 Hits — 5 starsTally 50 Hits — 10 starsTally 75 Hits — 10 starsTally 100 Hits — 15 starsTally 200 Hits — 20 starsTally 300 Hits — 25 stars
Home Runs (any multiplayer mode)
- Tally 5 HRs — 5 starsTally 10 HRs — 5 starsTally 25 HRs — 10 starsTally 50 HRs — 15 starsTally 100 HRs — 20 stars
Total Bases (any)
- Tally 50 Total Bases — 5 starsTally 100 Total Bases — 10 starsTally 200 Total Bases — 15 starsTally 300 Total Bases — 20 starsTally 400 Total Bases — 25 stars
Stolen Bases (any)
- Tally 5 Stolen Bases — 5 starsTally 10 Stolen Bases — 5 starsTally 20 Stolen Bases — 10 starsTally 30 Stolen Bases — 15 starsTally 40 Stolen Bases — 20 stars
Runs (any)
- Tally 10 Runs — 5 starsTally 25 Runs — 10 starsTally 50 Runs — 10 starsTally 100 Runs — 20 starsTally 150 Runs — 20 starsTally 200 Runs — 20 stars
Strikeouts (any)
- Tally 25 Strikeouts — 5 starsTally 50 Strikeouts — 5 starsTally 75 Strikeouts — 10 starsTally 100 Strikeouts — 10 starsTally 200 Strikeouts — 20 stars
PXP (any)
- Tally 8,000 PXP — 5 starsTally 16,000 PXP — 5 starsTally 24,000 PXP — 10 starsTally 32,000 PXP — 15 starsTally 40,000 PXP — 20 stars
This is an expansive program just like the Forever Program in the main path. Anyone continuing to play MLB The Show 25 over the winter months will have plenty of content to unlock, and finally completing the big collections is now attainable for the lot of us that simply didn't have the time or resources to complete them as they launched.
Do big rewind programs like this entice you to play more?
Cory Wayne Dell
Cory has been writing about all things baseball and gaming since 2022 and has been featured at Operation Sports as well as cited by Forbes. Cory is also a multi-instrumentalist and founder of the band Cargocastle. Cargocastle's latest single, "Truth and Reconciliation," is available on Spotify and all major streaming platforms. Cory is also the author of Shadow of a Monster, a personal memoir currently seeking publication.
