Predictions of the economic shift with Crimsonwood?

i doubt they'd make itcg equips dropable, or a reward from a quest.
if we were able to get itcg stuff ingame, there wouldn't be much reason to buy itcg. i don't think many people buy the cards to have a card battle with friends, although im pretty sure there will be some fangblade cards floating around on ebay xd.
but in all seriousness, it's a loss for nexon to do this.

But, you see, the issue here is that the TCG items have become a part of the common equipment set. The cards which give the items in question are no longer being printed. So, by making them drop from monsters at Crimsonwood, they would be pumping the supply of these items up on the "in-game" front but not taking away from the sales of TCG, what with set 1 being near impossible to find and set 2 quickly fading away. Once Set 4 is out it won't be long before all the set 1 and 2 cards are gone, and then the items they supply (all the good TCG items everyone enjoys, such as Stormcasters, Facestompers, Crystal Ilbi, Bosshunter gear, and so on) are gone from the economy as well. The prices will sky rocket, and with things like Chaos Scrolls they're being destroyed at a much faster rate than they were before. Eventually there won't be any left. That's not a good thing to have and these items, of all items in the game, are the ones most in need of deflation.

Redistributing the ingredients through another TCG re-release might help, but the biggest factor of TCG was that no one knew what it took to make the godly items and it took a while for that news to disseminate. A re-release would mean that everyone already knew what it takes to make things and it while the supply would go up it it wouldn't really make the prices go down. In my opinion the best way to add these items back into the economy would be to make them into boss drops. It's not entirely unprecedented that items which had a low supply dropped from new monsters; Headless Horseman drops Pineapple chews, which are only available from APQ otherwise. Seems like a comparable situation.

At the very Least I think we might see the TCG Use items crop up.