Problem: Uh Oh, market's crashing... Everyone at the company wants to keep their job.

Current Company Reaction: "Indefiniitely print new cards, or else we have to fire everyone in the company until it's over..."

Solution: Future burning of SPS gets split by percentage, regularly, monitored, and voted to remain controlled. Splinterlands LLC or whoever's keeping the lights on and started this shabang(henceforth called Splinterlands LLC) gets a percentage portion to keep running the operation, and the rest gets burned.
The overall portions of burning and the percentage rate they get can be driven by what they need to keep the doors open. But, if the Splinterlands LLC, goes this route, they need to STOP printing new decks for a set amount of time, IMO indefinitely until previous peak prices are exceeded, but hey that's just me...

You're already burning it, just burn a tad more and keep a piece to keep the lights on. I'm not gonna recommend anything that'll cost you employees, I'm just a concerned American watching our government do the same thing with USD that your art department is doing with Cards. I know we're on an economic downswing, but I'm hoping some logical input can save both Splinterlands and the USA.

"Print Less, Sell for More."
-Misheard Arron Burr Lyric via Hamilton