Ah, I managed to get a status match to Alitalia's Ulisse with my Iberia Silver card before the match deadline ended, but a couple months after that I was upgraded to Iberia Gold.

Now I've realized that Iberia Gold is only Sapphire on Oneworld and I cannot get the Turkish match I wanted without Emerald, which I'd have to start all over as it's a new "year" for me with Iberia. I'm kind of desperate for a Star Alliance match because I will fly with Swiss or Singapore Airlines a lot, maybe once a month but economy on my own dime... so my Iberian Gold is going to do nothing for that.

Any bright tips I could finagle a real Gold from somewhere?