The SPL League advancement rewards are pretty nice. Not only does it encourage moving up in leagues, but it can also help newer players get cards earlier.

I agree. That seems like a decent incentive at every playing level (except for investors), and it doesn't come with the expected drawback on the economy of reward cards immediately being dumped on the market.

The cryptomancer thing is interesting to say the least. There have been a lot of discussion even here on Hive posts.

Yeah, I know. I read a bit in discord too, in the channel clayboyn created for that. But didn't have time to read "the latest".