My thoughts exactly. The problem with the hole "scarcity" policy that splinterlands seems so fond of now is that no packs are gonna be sold for a while, and when they are sold they are gonna be sold to people who already have assets. The card prize increse for the cards is not something that happened cause of "free market" is something that was made deliveratelly by the splinterlands team to benefit old players.
New players have no way to advance in the game unless they paid extraordinary fees (either buying or renting) to the old players.