If this is a trial, what are the matrix for success? Here is a prophecy.
If 'success' is not defined, then the test has already failed.
Here is a potential scenario: 1 month after the change is implemented, card prices have reduced by 40%, along with the rental market. However, there is a 10% increase in new players doubling the average spend in game after 1 month.
Was this a success?
Good angle of thought. Ultimately a trial for 1 month wouldn't produce enough data. But it could be used to guage the existing playerbase's thoughts on success. If everyone is like yay, I'm playing humans again and bot only are like yay I still get to bot with a solution that will ensure my botting survival long term and players in Wild go yay I didn't suffer too much reward loss for the merger or vice versa, then we could get a general consensus on how to improve the from those voices or ultimately if a full re-working of a solution is needed. Card prices may drop in the modern realm but I would hope they will be balanced out by staking on land and new and returning players back to the game to battle players once they hear there is a space they can play away from bots.