
Originally Posted by
Wolfwere
Absolutely correct.
Decorations do matter, especially at low to mid level play, but by the time you can hit 15K in tournament the multiplier will dwarf your deco bonuses.
That's why I beat the "use gems to increase your multiplier" drum so hard. If you want to hit the top tier in tournaments for rewards, almost every gem should be used on the multiplier until you achieve your goal.
The Gains Week event is the only option I've seen where spending gems on something besides directly on multiplier increases can make sense, from the perspective of trying to maximize the performance gained from them. That's only because it's a potential path to larger multiplier increases per gem spent. If you can usually follow the shuffle, you can make a lot more progress investing 700 gems in tickets than spending them directly on the multiplier.