Steem Monster Sundays!: New Investment on Steem Monsters Summoners steemCreated with Sketch.

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It is no surprise that I have continued to fall down the Steem rabbit hole and its multiple layers. Since I started one of the most engaging experiences has been playing @steemmonsters. While it took me some time to really get into it, once I did I never looked back. After over a thousand packs, I am even more engaged given the experience it has provided me and the roadmap that is yet to come.

As I have been able to take advantage of the low Steem prices, I have been able to achieve a good Steem Power amount that has me considering the next steps in my journey. Given the recent deployment of some interesting cards for the game and the fact that I have been struggling to climb the leaderboards, I have decided to buy a lrage amount of cards this week. This was a big step for me as I am overzealous of spending any Steem for any reason as I treasure it as one of my most valuable assets. However, I have recently noticed how the digital assets of the Steem Monster cards have held up in value relative to the Steem price itself. I have noticed a pocket of cards that have increased in value!

Like many assets, the card value are driven by supply and demand. I have recentlt been noticing that the value of Summoners have held up pretty well. I think it is due to their scarcity as me myself have very little and have been unable to have enough to level up and use with my higher level Monster cards. In addition, the newly distributed and available Legendary Summoners were not as available as many would have wanted, hence their scarcity and higher values. I have seen these come down from an average of $9 per card to $6 and thought it would be a good opportunity.

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I started with buying enough of the Beta Epic Summoners to level my others up to use with my collection. These were averaging slightly below $1 each but I needed to buy about 8-9 of each to get to level 4 on most of them. I have been unable to leverage these cards in battle as the use of higher level cards were limited to the level of those I had. These Summoners are great choices to use when faced with the challenge that disables the buffs of Summoners. I have gotten that often and have been unable to compete well given the limitation of my cards.

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One of the main reasons I decided to make this purchase was my OCD of having a complete collection. With the somewhat unlucky (not ungrateful) airdrop I got from the Legendary Summoners, I was left without most of the new cards. However, I knew that leaving it to randomness in buying more packs would not be the solution given the scarcity of these cards. In addition, I did not want to want have the same issues with not being able to use the cards given them being more low level than the rest. Lastly, I also wanted to have some cards to use while the increases in mana cap remain in the game. Having mana caps now up to 32, require the use of more Legendaries to be compete. So, I went to the @peakmonsters market place and bought a couple of each! Afterwards, I noticed I forgot about the new Life Splinter Legendary!

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There you have it! Almost 500 Steem used to buy Steem Monster cards! That is over $130 worth of Steem there! However, I quickly realized that I spend more than that when buying Beta Booster packs to open ($200) and I have chosen the cards I want to power my collection and teams. The only problem is that this to may become addictive! My first battle with the new cards actually gave me a chance to try out one of the new Legendary Summoners:

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I was actually put against another Legendary Summoner but the additional buffs worked really well for my team with the ruleset in place. I am looking forward to continuing to put these cards in play as we approach the end of the season! Next step will be to add some more Monsters to level up as well! I hope this will get me one step closer to competing well for some tournaments in the future.

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I just love your sunday monsters posts so much! Thank you!!!!! Acquiring more here also...and hodling! :) great purchases!!! lol...i have the same OCD about completing the collection! just finished beta full ..and working on the rewards. i love this blockchain..and this game! cheers my friend...see ya on the battlefield. the new....tournaments...will be amazing! :)) https://steemit.com/steemmonsters/@mattclarke/how-to-sponsor-your-own-steemmonsters-tournament-in-only-a-few-minutes

Great to see your buddy! I am missing your greenhouse videos! But I saw you were quite busy destroying is all on Steem Monsters as you placed top 10, right? Congrats!

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thanks so much bro! i'll be back soon ..with the greenhouse and garden videos. winter break..but it's warming up!!! top 10 ...yessss! :) lol....i have really enjoyed putting my attention of SM's this winter. soooo many custom jsons a day!!!! each win and loss teaches me so much. this genre of gaming was and is completely new to me...but i'm loving it. i see the HUGE HUGE potential to pull in some of these gamers from other areas of the genre. this doc blew me AWAY! cheers! see you on the battlefield! :)

I am fairly doubtful of the value of the new legendary summoners as the 2 extra buffs for 2 extra mana is not that good a deal. Some other cards give these buffs for less mana and less cost to purchase. Only a +1 ranged attack is unobtainable by other means. There are plenty of high mana monster cards to use up a 32 mana cap.

While I mostly did it to get the collection completed. I feel that the combination of additional buffs have helped during battles with higher mana, especially when limited to not being able to use legendary monsters which I have often gotten. However, it may be somewhat overpriced for sure. Thanks for the feedback!

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Ah good, I'm not the only one buying cards then!

I have sold the odd one or two, but trying to hold ground in the tables each season is tough, and it's persuaded me to buy also :)

Yes! I never thought I would get rid of 500 Steem that easy but I still may need more as I still am struggling to move up. Now with tournaments around the corner, thinks are about to get heated up!

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That's an impressive investment into the game. I would hate to come up against you in battles from now on as those summoners will destroy people. I would be the same as you in the fact that I don't want to spend any of my steem especially at the current price but with all the new features coming into steemmonsters it might be time to invest a bit more.

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It was tough to dive in and spend Steem but it felt better to buy the cards instead of leaving it to luck in buying more packs!

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I didn't want to spend any existing steem as I'm trying to build my way up to 10k sp this year so bought a few hundred to strengthen my deck a little bit. Might get the new summoners and a couple of splinters.

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Can't fault your reasoning here. There's no way you're losing money on them. The only way you'll regret the decision is if Steem spikes all of a sudden. Hard to see that happening without dragging up the value of the cards too, though.

Not worried about Steem spiking as I continue to buy more every month. I think the scarcity factor will kick in as we approach the end of the inventory of Beta packs.

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Yeah, the last 25,000 alpha packs vanished in a matter of hours. That FOMO is savage.

That's one hell of an investment! Good luck with it.
I will slow down this season and just focus on the daily quests and that's about it! I will see where it will bring me!
Cheers,
Peter

Same here as I want to see how the tournament system comes out for the player base! Looking forward to the continued development of the game!

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The publications of your monsters are spectacular, your collection is very good

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Thanks! It is a great way to do something different while engaging with the community. I am often able to battle with some great content creators which otherwise would never know who I am!

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It's really a good idea, I'm just starting and it's hard to find the way, luck

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