The big thing that made cards so expensive was you literally needed about 12 stacks of herbs per darkmoon card craft, and you had a 1 in 4 chance of it being a noble, the most desirable of the 4 different decks. What this new development means is that the hardest component to get, the snowfall ink, is going to be much easier to get. I have over 500 ink of the sea sitting in my bank from making cards. The immediate market trend? Scribes are going to make a bunch of cards the day the patch comes out, the price is going to plummet, but the price is not going to stay low. This will raise the price of eternal life considerably, to the point where cards will again go back up. As the demand for cards slowly goes down, the price of cards will again go down, eventually to the point where they will be cheaper than right after the patch. So the time to buy will either be right after patch or much later on down the road - months down the road.Jessica Sellers, a new vendor in the Dalaran inscription shop, will sell most inscription inks for the cost of one Ink of the Sea. She also sells Snowfall Ink for multiple Inks of the Sea.
As a side note, I will probably be more than willing to provide the inks for crafting cards for anyone so long as they provide parchment and 3 eternal life required.
