[Article] What are your thoughts on the Snap Packs system?

So it's been around a week since Snap Packs were introduced to the game.

I wrote an article here about some thoughts on Snap Packs, in a bid to introduce Marvel Snap to the general card gaming community, and also as a way to give visibility to the game through news coverage: https://cardgamer.com/games/digital-card-games/marvel-snap/marvel-snap-do-snap-packs-fix-card-acquisition-woes/

On one hand, we have newer players who will now only get one new Series 5 card every two weeks (since the cl ladder gives 3k tokens), where in the past, a new key would mean a new card, most times.

On the other hand, more tenured players who were sitting on a bunch of keys since spending four keys for three dupes and a new Series 5 card, means that they can now be collection complete, and will continue to do so just by spending currency wisely.

There's also a consideration of giving player agency: that with more tokens instead of just keys, players can now target purchase the cards they want more consistently, instead of leaving the pinned card there for months, until they obtain enough tokens from a gold bundle (or worse, from dupes).

We also have to consider: a lot more Series 4 cards are entering the ecosystem, so there's going to be more cards per month, more than ever.

Some cals have been ran by LaurenWhatevs (of Snap On This! fame), which states that at around 15k tokens as a buffer (correct me if i'm wrong!), it's pretty easy to catch up on the collection now, or at least gives more options for players.

For instance, some players can just opt to never buy the Seasonal Packs and instead go for Collector's Packs. Other players just want to be collection complete ASAP and will go for Seasonal Packs. Another subset of players will only purchase specific cards for full price to finish their decks. Which player type do you think you'll be?

It might still be too early to say if this system is better than the old one. We might just be in the honeymoon phase. What do you think about Snap Packs?