You could be right.  Just viewing some of the cards and current market prices we are beginning to reach arbitrage points sooner than people think in just buying the packs.  The token packs on steem-engine are slowly working their way down, then you add on top of that retail discounts buying direct that is very possible.  Getting beta packs at 10+ steem today was pretty sweet and being able to move some of the cards I felt being a little more highly priced than the others to continue chasing a Rennyn was a lot of fun.  Betas are now far more entrenched as having the true utilitarian value of playing the cards every day versus what the slowly extinct alpha cards are becoming in overwhelming price per BCX, let alone per card that is playable at any kind of decent level.