i think having both minimum level and minimum card rental to be at 1 dec is actually the better idea.
new player experience would improve as new players would not be versus bot farms accounts playing in novice as bronze accounts tends to reset close to novice or creation of bot farm accounts throughout entire systems running scripted teams.
new players will actually get to experience what victory feels like and fall in love with the game.
as ghost cards do not earn anything, new players may decide to invest instead of losing 5-20 battles in novice and then rage quitting. people who do not want to combine 1 bcx may also create 1 bcx starter accounts to scholar out either privately or through NFTY to earn some sort of split income on their assets. this will ease the transition of rental market having minimum level and minimum card rental at 1 dec. this will also act as a better gateway to introduce new players to splinterland than playing with ghost cards and not being able to earn
new players may come across a card they use often to win and fall in love with it and its a card they MUST own.
for instance can be Allie when she first started testing out SPL and fell in love with curse windeku.