Thanks for the recap.
About the new rewards and the need to lvl up cards, I always struggle between leveling cards and getting more diverse cards to cover more rulesets. There's a clash between format. In tournament, you wanna have maxed out cards. But in rank, you can usualy rank up by always playing your main/best deck. As SL seems to shift its focus to tournament lately, that'll have an impact on the market. I'm, currently working on maxing out silver lvl CL cards before working on my gold/diamond ladder team for instance