the claim drop will be in Ragnarok Claim Tokens. Not sure will it be on hive engine, dlux (Dan worked with them) or maybe something else. Ragnarok Claim Tokens will be like unopened chests (something like that). When the NFT cards go live, you can claim one NFT per token.
So there will be some trading before anyone knows what card they get. Could be interesting, we will see.
Splinterlands created a lot of accounts. It kinda all depends on the Hive price. 10$ to get it going is not that bad if it has to happen. And everyone active will get to 30 hive from the distribution. Now what will happen in some years ahead when inflation goes down 🤷♂ who knows, we will see :D