Sometimes in life, balance is the most important thing. I could think of a few balance changes that I would implement into the game right away. By that, I don't mean disturbing the flow and the investment ideas, but making balance a real thing and creating a fair play experience.
- drastically lower the costs for the creation of smaller tournaments
- add starter boosts (more dec and special events) for real newbies
- restrict card levels in ladder games intelligent from game to game
- ban all none default summoner below diamond league
- implement training mode with matchmaking
- offer a second starterpack that is actually competitive
- offer incentives for daily activities
- give players the ability to decline ladder progression
- maybe make boosters 100€ each and put only 2 cards in, that would be great!
These things would already erase so many hurdles!