Hi Steemit friends,
now i finding me making a daily report on the booster packs left on the Steem Monsters site. The numbers falling unbelievable fast now. Every day there are not just a thousand but tens of thousands of them sold. Each pack contains 5 Alpha Edition cards with the chance to pick very rare golden versions. Currently we have just 28,000 left and i guess they could be out of store tomorrow.
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Where can i get Alpha cards if they sold out?
I think of three options:
1. In the secondary market of Steem Monsters or peakmonsters they will be traded for a certain price
2. user2user on discord in the following channels
Steem Monsters MT MOX MONSTER MARKET groups
TSMG trading-room
3. reseller who hold unopened packs now and create their own market
What is the value proposition for Alpha cards?
They are simply capped with 300k booster packs which theoretically means there are just 300k X 5 cards = 1.5 million cards available. To get a better understanding for high value cards like regular legendaries and gold epics and legendaries a short table how many should have dropped out of all Alpha Edition cards:
| class | rarity | existence (theory) | drop rate | more rare | avg market price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| regular | Legendary | 15,000 | 1% | - | $5 |
| golden | Legendary | 300 | 0.02% | 50x | $1,000 |
| golden | Epic | 1,350 | 0.09% | 11x | $50 |
Please take this with a grain of salt because drop rates changed over time and there is randomness so that is just an estimate. Market prices are fluctuating and there are some exceptions for special cards like the Selenia Sky. For example if you look at the golden Lightning Dragon. This is currently the most rare and valuable gold legendary because they dropped about 50% less than the other 3 dragons, which is very rare event among these cards. Prices ranging over $4,000 currently for this card where are just 16 in existence today! That means a drop rate of about 0,001% or in other words each 93,750 cards you'll see a golden Lightning Dragon, crazy, isn't it?!
Alpha is the leader!
You know the term alpha leader in society? These cards may could have also special abilities in the upcoming tournament. With this said they could be more valuable than the following Beta edition. There are rumors around that but no clear information what this will be until October.
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