I agree with you, but I'm personally buying less packs now than I'd planned - I'm now buying 1000, I was going to get 5-6000, but the funds for the later I'm redeploying elsewhere for now, it's still all ring fences for Splinterlands but I just think buying in more gradually - cards on the market, SPS is a better strategy for accumulation.
I'm also waiting to get more DEC - I figure it can't go lower than $1 PER 1000, and given that there is a decent guaranteed return with SPS for 6 months yet, that means $2 is the floor price until at least April?
Might try and time purchasing a lot of that - in abuot a month it might be good.
It's a game within a game!
For sure, grabbing asstons of sps and cards is a great strategy right now (just got more sps myself after i finished up organizing my end of the Chaos madness). I would think the card market will go down a little more first though... aside from some of the legendary summoners we have yet to see and Blight. I dont' think there is a whole lot of ways to do Splinterlands wrong haha - just our best guess at the most-optimal path. I also agree with your assessment.