Increasing the level of your cards should always allow you to increase your rewards,
I think that this is a flawed argument to base choices on. I agree that increasing your level of cards should give you a better chance of increasing your rewards but it should not guarantee it.
If that's the case it's not a game anymore. It's just an investment system where skill is taken out of the equation.
Collection power doesn't add anything to the game and could be removed. It would make much more sense to get rid of the old league system and bring in something better. It's so hard to get up to diamond now and the reward every time is to drop back to gold every time and start the fight again. You can win so many matches and lose one to drop all the way back again. We would need a better way to determine league points going forward but i'm sure that the team can come up with something better than we have right now.
I would rather a better league system based on numbers or percentages. Top 500 play in champion leagues. Next 5000 play in Diamond. Next 10000 play in gold. Next 20000 play in silver, next 50000 play in bronze and the rest play in a starter league. Have promotion and relegation at the end of every season. Split reward pools accordingly. More people to match against at the top levels.
Use ECR to bring in a fair points system for these leagues to determine position as the old one isn't fit for purpose and watch the fun unfold as people scramble to gain promotion or avoid relegation at the end of every season.
Or something to this effect. The only way to get to the higher tiers will be through playing well for multiple seasons. Make it fun to play again and don't nerf the lower leagues yet again. They can only take it so many times before the player base falls away.
It would also give more people a shot at better rewards in the higher leagues and a better distribution of prizes which is a better motivation to combine cards IMO. More people in the top leagues and less in the middle leagues.
Not a fully though out idea but something to be looked at.
We appreciate the hard work that is going into the game. Hopefully it remains fun to play and doesn't turn into apay to play game with a small userbase.
ON the plus side, ghost tournaments should be a great success and encourage a lot more people to take part. Looking forward to those and maybe a pokerstars feel to the tournament section soon where we can host sit and goes by ourselves with all of the cards for skill based battles.