Since player images are temporarily removed and the update on player images are still ongoing, which should happen sometime between end of April and 2nd week of May. I know that the FUD for the players value are still in very poor condition. This is the reason why player market right now is so cheap and that you should take advantage of this.
At a few cents only, you can form a single decent team. The prices could reach for as low as $0.01 (1 cent) and yes, I have noticed some of the cards that are listed as $0.01 are decent enough for a good team.
I believe we should take advantage of these discounts. My only hope is that they could speed up the player images update, Prediction market for GLS utility, and more announcements from the team regarding the token utilization. I'm not sure what's currently in the pipeline from the team regarding the token, but seeing how Splinterlands was carefully managed, I thought of this should become a huge thing too in the future.
What are you waiting for, spend some of your Hive/HBD to purchase these!