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.