Steem Monsters And Shiny Object Syndrome

Some might say I'm not one to stick with much long term without getting a bit bored. And I would have to agree.

I tend to suffer from Shiny Object syndrome and recently I've been looking around for something new to get my teeth into. Today I'm wondering if Steem Monsters might be it.

I have no idea how to play a game such as Steem Monsters. I'm told it's a cross between Hearth Stone and Magic The Gathering. Hmmm. What? No idea what they are either. 😂

But I bought a starter pack in the early days when Hive account@exyle started getting excited about them. And then something weird happened with the SBD price and the bonus packs were extra cheap for a couple of hours so I bought 10 of them.

I opened a couple of the packs but then got a bit bored as they didn't mean anything to me.

Fast forward a couple of months and Hive account@davemccoy took a look at my cards for me (I can't remember why now 😂) and said he thought I'd be very happy with what I had so I opened them and found a legendary gold card which I think is part of what he was referring to.

Anyway, Steem Monsters recently started a Kick Starter campaign and Dave McCoy wrote another post which led to me poking around my account and the discord channel.

The actual game play hasn't started yet so there's still time to collect more of the alpha cards before they end on October 1st so I'm wondering if I should buy a few more.

However, since I have no idea what's going on I think I'd be wise to read up a bit and see if I can get a better understanding.

These are two links that seem like a good place to start

Steem Monsters Game Play
Steem Monsters Cheat Sheet

I also created a spreadsheet to record the cards I have and their value. If my calculations are correct I'm $10.64 down at the moment.

So . . . I'm wondering . . . are any of my regular Steemit friends involved/planning to get involved in Steem Monsters?

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