The price to unlock will be at least 10x the DEC burn value and it will become more expensive as time moves on until a point where they no longer can be unlocked.
That's what they're planning? Pretty crazy if true.
What they should do is make it so that a new rule is that players can NOT use more than 3 Reward cards in ANY Splinterlands battle. This would force battles to be used with half reward cards and half bought for owned cards. This would finally bring some value to bought for owned cards. Right now bots with nothing but MAX souldbound cards and perfect line-ups can still make Diamond and Champions League in Wild league.
Yeah, everything points toward the unlock of soulbound card to become the next major fuck up.
I 100% agree that the soulbound cards helped crush the prices of real cards as bots can just use those exclusively since they included summoners. Bringing back value to owned cards should be priority one way or another as more and more players are leaving because of their decline while nobody new is coming in. Still feels like there are very rough times ahead.