Please let's all talk about obvious situation. Let's not say that 500.000 of Collection Power is same as USD value of 500.000 DEC. Because we all can see that you need to pay much more than USD value of a DEC for every 1 of Collection Power. You must by on markets or pay for opening packs.
@Gringo211985 is really honest saying how illogical this situation is. Apparently same goals of Collection Power could have been worked out in different acceptable way, as suggested by many even here in these comments.
1000 dec should be 1 usd, 500.000 dec should be 500 usd. Atm the dec rate is way lower, almost half, so if you buy 500.000 dec off the market and buy cards with them, you would officially be able to play in the champions league, not something I would recommend, but hey it is possible, a lot of goldfoil sell near dec value.
Sorry dude but 500k doesn't = anywhere close to 500k power, for example my max level summoner dec value is 4850 dec burn rate, the value of the card is $32 lol... Absolutely wrong and I am 100% correct saying you need to invest approx $800 to $1000 to get into champions league... Also renting decks isn't free and is pointless as it will cost you more in 6 months than the cost of buying the cards. I've played for years, pretty clued up on it and yeah I'm done, can't see where the new players will come from, which will lead to lower card values and eventually people unable to sell cards because there's no new players... They've killed the game unless they change things from this method, for example peakmonsters.com collection value should be used instead...
That is so obvious, not worth to comment on his statement.