If they would keep what they told when releasing Untamed all would be fine:
https://steemit.com/splinterlands/@steemmonsters/splinterlands-untamed-info-and-release-date
Unfornately Splinterlands has left this goal behind startung with submitting the legandary Untamed Summoner so that now nobody needs Alpha/Beta-Cards or only very few cards you can use in rare cases.
If you now take also away tournaments for Alpha (& BETA)- Cards means that you devalue the old cards completely.
The problem is (and this you see when you look how the general-sale run) that in this way you have very big problems to sell new sets as investors will always think that what happened with Alpha & BETA-Cards will in some yeare happen with Rebellion-cards latest at the point they will move out to wild (but clearly the price-drop will start much earlier), so what investor want buy expensive cards who he can sell only for a cheap price in some years.
Like at the stoke exchange - Nobody will buy a share for 100$ when he expect that in 3 years this share will have a worth from 10$.
Untamed? You're really reaching back there. Wild literally uses the 'widest array of cards' possible. Edition-specific tournaments are the exact opposite of that. Your highlighted text doesn't make your argument at all. The game has to grow, pointing back to the release notes for the first edition post-beta is pretty myopic. It also doesn't account for recent card sinks such as land.
I disagree, I think that my argument does make a lot of sense.
I just can repeat what I wrote in this comment (and you maybe don't read):
"Unfornately Splinterlands has left this goal behind startung with submitting the legandary Untamed Summoner"
Everything would be fine if the old cards were still competitive. But when you look at the fact that we now have 16 mana cards and Alphs cards have a maximum of 7 mana, how are you going to achieve anything with alpha cards? When alpha cards have been copied and upgraded, such as the Pelacor Bandit, the 1:1 of the Saber Shark is only with additional flying, or cards have simply become much better for 1 mana, such as Malric Inferno, which has been rendered worthless by Tarsa, which provides the same buff as Malric for 1 mana and an additional +1 Life (which is always useful)
Yep, fully agree. The inflation is worse than fiat currency here. They are addicted to fast money, and do not care for the value of assets purchased earlier.