RE: Are Soulbound Reward Cards a Good Idea?

I think they messed up with Lux Vega. They tried to make it the sister card to archmage arius which is 5 mana. They should have looked at it like they did with these new soulbound summoners where they said conscript is worth three mana and they also all have another ability that other 3 mana summoners have so its 6 mana. Kelya plus 1 life is already 7. Making it neutral should have easily added another 3. Should have been a 10 mana card for sure. But hopefully in time the 1000 copies of the card will be so small compared to the player base that it won't matter.

What I've been thinking for a little while now is the team are looking at cards more as tools than as investments. And it makes sense if you consider that there are probably going to be about 150 cards added to the game each year and they are going to keep having to do things to make them more interesting and more "must have" to the player base. New abilities stronger cards, modern cards that replace the older editions, poor mans versions, etc.

Coming off the 2021 run I think we all have that idea that cards are meant to matter. But what I'm coming to believe now is that every aspect of this game, the Splinterlands company, the platform they're building around it, etc are all a means to drive value to SPS. SPS is all that matters and the rest can be sacrificed.