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Lot's of thing happened between this days. The most interesting thing is recent steemmonsters update about new reward cards, Daily Update Popup , Archmage Arius Balance Update, Paid Starter Sets Will No Longer Give Cards & Million Monster Madness Tournament compensation payment. I want to add my comment's on those changes. First of all comes to Million Monster Madness Tournament compensation payment, We all know few day's ago steem blockchain crushed. During that time Million Monster Madness Tournament was running and all suddenly stopped. So now they(sm team) decided to rearrange that tournament later and send 1087 DEC to all active players who was checked in on that tournament. Now comes to Daily Update Popup, this is such a great way to show all update in a short way. I missed tournament several time also many time forgot to check how many day's left for season end. So when i will login on sm the update will popup.
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Archmage Arius Balance Update, well this is really good change for me. Because this change have fair reason, Archmage Arius is the most rarest

and hardest to get cards in the game. Luckily i got one from Mystery Potion Rewards, It's can be found via Mystery potions. Also they flushed that how many cards will be given out. Total 90 cards will be distributed, already 53 cards given out. Each card coming out as 10xBCX, which means maxed card. But people rarely use that cards on battlefield, the reason is high mana. It was 6 mana monster before they change it to 5 mana, to make it more valuable and more useful. So i am gonna hold my card untill someone offer me crazy amount for that card. Though the market price swing up after this change, right now the lowest price of this card 1000$.

So we all familiar with reward cards, there are 30 different reward cards available now in game. From those 4 cards going to hit their max supply and those are ( Lord Arianthus , Flame Imp , Hobgoblin , Mushroom Seer ). So sm team decide to release 4 more cards when those cards will hit the max supply. The new cards are 3 rare and 1 legendary & 3 splinter and 1 neutral card. Though all of those coming as low life, but with some effictive ability. Let's see how those card's effect on battle field. The new monsters name is ( Furious Chicken, Beetle Queen, Naga Windmaster, Unholy Spirit).

Furious Chicken - the first ever 0 mana monster. On low mana game when all mana used and you still have spot left, then it will be best option to use. Though from start to max it's have only 1 life, but from other monster ability the life can be increased. Also you don't need to add this monster on your team, it will be auto included on your line-up. It's a neutral monster so it can be used on all splinter line-up.

Beetle Queen - This is fire splinter rare monster. From Level 1 to Level 2 only 1 magic attack, 1 sheild and 2 life. From level 3 to level 4 magic +1(2 magic attack) & From level 5 to level 7 tank heal ability . Which will be the first tank healer for fire splinter. Now people no need to cry when they will get fire splinter quest. On max level another ability will add with tank heal which is inspire ability, which will boost +1 melee attack to all friendly melee monsters.

Naga Windmaster - Naga Windmaster Water splinter rare card. This monster come up with new ability Headwinds, Along with that have two other ability shatter and poison. So how this new ability Headwinds works ? - Headwinds reduces the Ranged attack damage of all enemy Monsters by 1 point. So you can say it's anti-prince ability. What do you think, after this monster release the prince fomo will be gone ? let me know on comment section. This monster will make water splinter more strong. Just imagine this card and Ruler of the Seas card on same battle, this two can decrease the magic and ranged attack of opponent monsters. This combination will be beast combination.

Fallen Specter - Fallen Specter is legendary death splinter monster. This monster come up with lot's of speed and ability, but less life and attack power. The mana cost of this monster only 2. This is going to be 2nd lowest mana legendary after shin-lo. Demoralize & Headwinds ability going to affect on opponent monster's, which will reduce 1 melee and 1 ranged attack power of all opponent monster and new ability added Blind, which reduces the hit chance of all enemy Melee and Ranged attacks by 15%. This is really badass monster for low mana game, but the problem is health. It's magic attack monster so if opponent use Lord arianthus then after this monster magic attack, the attack going to reflect and which will cause -1 health. That means the monster will be gone after that. Also harpy can easily go to attack that. So you need to handle it with care.

Paid Starter Sets Will No Longer Give Cards : This update caught my eyes and i am completely against this update. Because many of us have starter pack code, which we got from seed promo campaign. I got one from seed campaign and i am holding that to gift someone who interested to join the game and invest into it. But after this change it will be very unwelcome thing by give that code to newbie gamer. I hope that sm team will think about it again and will come up with better change.

Update : So sm team made new update on this post, So the Seed campaing starter pack will get real, tradeable/combinable version of the 30 starter set cards. That's really great approach and i am thankful to sm team for this quick change.

Quest Potion Price and Reduced Quest Rewards : Well this is going to be very bad update for those who are on lower than gold 1 league . All bronze league tiers, Silver league tiers and first two gold league tiers reward cards amount is now decreased. And also the price of quest potion 50% increased. I don't know how reasonable the change is because untill new reward cards release all those reward card price still low , except : Ruler of the sea and Lord arianthus. So i am not going to invest on quest potions at this moment at all. Because i don't want to waste my DEC for rusty and vampire reward cards.

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