What about a Mini-Starter Pack? 1,250 DEC for 5 Cards (80% chance common, 20% chance Rare only and no GF)? If people want to save a bit they will go with the standard starter pack for 5,000 DEC and 25 cards (80% chance common, 20% chance Rare).

I didn't really see a need for that. When I think about giving players cheaper options, to me that means cheaper on a per card basis, which is what the Starter pack accomplishes, and having another pack type that is very similar would just cause some confusion for little real benefit - in my opinion.

I don't really think the problem is that players want to only spend $1 and don't have an option for that (in fact, they do have the option to buy quite a number of cards on the market for that), it's that they might only want to spend $20 but getting 5 booster packs (25 cards in total) seems like it's not worth it. So now they have the option to spend the $20 on 4 Starter packs, and get 100 cards in total.

What about allowing us to prepay to upgrade our wagons at a discount? Say it costs 2k DEC per wagon to upgrade them to Conclave, maybe we can pay 1500 DEC now? I think getting DEC off the market is critical right now.

That's definitely a possibility but I wouldn't want to do it now. Things can change a lot between now and when the new set is released so I prefer to wait until it's closer to make any pricing decisions. As for DEC demand, we have three more promo card sales plus the 100 day auction sale coming up, and I don't want to rush future decisions just for a temporary increase in demand now as that tends to cause more problems for us down the road.