Here is different CL card burning idea instead of an event that the DAO could pay for. If it won't work that's fine but I just want to get it off my chest. Change the numbers, modify it, pick holes in it, whatever - it's for discussion purposes.

This is the simplified version/non crafting version:

Create a rare and epic wagon that requires burning CL cards and it drops a number of BCX of a permanently soulbound epic or rare card.

It costs & works the same way & is on the same schedule as the current wagon except it drops BCX instead of chances (capped at 1 max level card) & it requires that you burn a number of CL cards of the same element as the wagons are dropping.

So for the rare wagon let's say it would require burning 20 common CL cards or 10 rare CL cards.
And you set it so the burning slots "meet a minimum requirement or better" meaning that if someone has a 26 BCX common CL card & he wants to use it for this it still works or if he bunches together 23 BCX in 4 slots it still works.

For the epic wagon likewise you could require burning 20 rare CL cards of the same element or 10 epic CL cards of the same element.

You can keep this up for as long as needed until you burn the amount of CL cards you want out of the system and stop it if the player base grows and needs CL cards and/or if land accelerates in use and gold CL cards are needed for land.
 
I feel this leaves a lot of options open to play with to increase the amount of CL cards getting burned. You can change the numbers around. You can make it so that if you want a guaranteed GF all the cards you burn have to be GF. You can make a special ability just for these cards that requires legendaries to get burned to craft it onto the card. There are so many options to play with and you don't have to call it a wagon.

My 2 cents.

I would rather use all these assets being given away for future Splinterfests prizes and prizes for any events for the various games coming to arcade colony in order to promote/get more people into the game. 

You need a lot more Westerners to join the game because that is where your $ comes from not human calculators from the developing world in Asia that scholar and then use their profits to multi account camp in lower leagues ruining the game for all the new players coming in from the western world. Right now ranked is a math contest with Asia versus "pay to win."

You've somewhat addressed this with all the new changes coming up but that's not enough in my opinion. There needs to be factions, emotional investment, PVE, human factors, etc.. that divides players based on something in the PVE story line. Not West with the money versus the East human calculators.

If we are trying to burn vouchers then bring more utility to vouchers and give those who always have too many (SPS whales) a way to easily sell them to players that do not have enough by putting them on the SPL secondary market instead of the convoluted HIVE engine.

If we are trying to burn all the old masses of reward cards that are in bot farm accounts 
what if you just continue on and ignore those? Didn't a past change we made trigger some bot farms to do a mass card burn? I remember there was a mass burn of those from a bot farm account in the past after a change we made. What if when the grain LP's come online these farm accounts decide to mass burn those and buy grain while it is still super cheap and put both sides of that into the LP's?

If we are trying to burn the CL packs/cards I've suggested an alternative but maybe that is not needed.

Posting the inspiration for "the Burninator" just in case since kids these days:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90X5NJleYJQ

I'm not sure I'm seeing the benefit here? 

100,000+ in prizes of cards, land etc are going to be given out but what if we only burn 50,000 worth of assets. That means we just inflated everything again.

Personally I liked the burning of vouchers to get a card and thought that was going to be a thing at least once a year. If there's too much inflation well then simply reduce the inflation by a small amount like a bank does during slow times and then pick it up again when needed.

I'm failing to see the benefit here and maybe I'm missing something so I'd love to hear it better explained as to why this would be a good idea with how it's currently structured. 

Not a fan of it. Honestly feels like Splinterlands trying to get liquid funds from assets that are already in the dumps. Plus there's no guarantee that we will burn $100,000 in assets simply to replace it with $100,000+ in assets being given away so it honestly makes no sense to me. Plus as others have stated the things being given away a vast majority of people already have maxed out since they are crazy over inflated already. Need to go back to the drawing board on this one and come up with unique assets even if it's just a new card. The goal is to remove more value then put back in which is going to be tricky with a burn event. What made the last one such a big hit? Model the success and slowly build on it.

I don't like this proposal, I feel like it's very circular. We are burning cards and burning assets to give away a bunch of packs which will wind up just making a bunch more cards. It will also likely lead to devaluing the rarer sets as we release packs from the rarer sets by burning the cheapest assets that players can.

why the hell is voucher and dec included

What measures will be taken to protect players with fewer resources?

If you have 100,000 worth of assets, why not just simply sell the assets. Fund yourself with the assets you have.   How many people outside of the top 200 will receive anything? How many new people will this event attract to the game?  I don't see any new players running into this game buying up cheep cards, dec and vouchers, to burn them just to get these prizes that only the top givers with get.   No thanks

I'd suggest removing vouchers and making cards more profitable to burn than DEC. As of now doing the math, I think this would basically burn a lot of reward card over supply and vouchers. I also think some sort of promo card would really increase the desire to participate, something like a vruz where pretty much anyone at any level could reasonably qualify to get a copy.

This makes no sense to me, not only will it drain 100k from the DAO funds but it will fight inflation with more inflation. A solution to burn cards and make sure the supply at least doesn't go up is to incorporate a card burn mechanic for unlocking Soulbound cards. Give them a status as a starter card which doesn't earn (preventing all the bots to milk rewards) with one of the requirements to unlock is to burn a similar type card. Also bringing back Collection Power at least in Wild is something that could help at least the demand for cards.

this is simply a terrible terrible use of a large portion of DAO funds. Good lord i hope people read this before hearting or voting it in.

Everyone need to look at that the philip-do account. [spoiler it's got 9 million BCX in reward cards] Just let that settle in. That is the sword hanging over this event. That is what the farms have done. Is everyone ready for this monster to eat all the rewards? Again??

There is the potential to lose even more to the extractors here if not careful. Maybe the ship has sailed on CL rewards and we just focus the burn on core sets. We need to think hard about what gets rewarded for this event. 

**EDIT:  I've changed my mind on the burning event and made a new comment on the post if anyone cares to see my updated thoughts.**

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I would like to support the burning event and in fact I was excited to participate.

I thought we were going to be burning our cards/DEC/vouchers for a promo card and I was excited to have that dynamic.

I'm much less thrilled with this as a player and would only participate if I can arbitrage the assets based on my likely winnings (which I personally don't like to do as that's not fun).

I feel if this passes without a promotional card or two to buy with our points, then this will be counterproductive.  

After the post comments (particularly @azircon's point about team revenue being priority) and the TH yesterday, **I think SPL should focus on selling the Promo and keeping all the revenue for the team.**  

While the burning event could or could not be good, I think its more important right now for Splinterlands Inc to get the money from the promo sale, and thus do the halving promo directly without the DAO involved.  Here are factors in my decision:

1 - SPL gets 100% of the Promo sales and that is something I think is important

2 - the card burning event has some negative pushback from players for 3 reasons: 

     a) cost of 100k to the DAO 
     b) lottery method and no guaranteed or direct card purchase option
     c) some don't want vouchers to be included

3 - I think Splinterlands team can restructure the card burning event easily into the future when there's not a conflict with selling a promo card

4 - I believe many of the other changes with the New Player Experience are very positive and powerful, thus the card overhang problem is miniscule in comparison 

5 - I think Splinterlands can make the card burning event much better with more input from players as well as the team (I personally have many thoughts to help improve it)

So while I think having a promo card is good in terms of making the card burning event fun, I also believe that smart thing to do is let the Splinterlands Team run their business first and get their own revenues, and focus on reducing an oversupply later on a restructured burning event (which will give the added benefit of making it even better and more exciting).

I've shared my thoughts with @yabapmatt and no matter how this works out I'm still very excited for the future!!!  I've been here 6 years and plan on being here quite a bit longer! :)