Just like most of you I have seen a lot of post about Steem Monsters. I have even joined the discord once before check out the site and just didn't ever buy that first pack cause I wasn't sure. I have been a long time card game player. From Magic the Gathering, VS, WOW card game, and others but never Yu-Gi-Oh. I have played in big tournaments in all the other games even qualifying for the state championships but never did well there. Why didn't I play Yu-Gi-Oh you might wonder. Simple I tried it once saw that there where a lot of over powered cards and knew it wasn't game for me. I played on a budget. I loved magic cause I could make a deck from the throw away bin at my local card store and beat your deck with it if you didn't know how to build one right and just played what you thought where fancy cards. I wasn't sure about steem monsters cause I felt that it might be one of those games where cards got over powered. So just the people buying tons of packs would win.
So how do I now find myself getting into this game? Simple I won a free card in the pay it forward contest and found out that 
I bought my cards with litecoin was glad to see so many payment options. It took a few minutes and I have my collection. I tell the discord that I am in now and very happy to see a lot of welcomes and people offering to help. Next thing I know I have a free epic card sent to me and people checking out my blog. I might have just found another good discord to spend some time in. This is what is going to be giving this game a shot for sure. A good supportive group of people on discord is key to having new players join the game. So a special thanks to 
The rules for the game are not really out yet and so far it does look like getting lots of cards is important but at the same time I can't be sure of that. I know you need a lot of copies of the cards to level them up so that does mean you need to get more cards. But also it is clear that people will be supporting this with giveaways. Also it was clear that if you play in tournaments even if you don't go far that you will win something. Also they fact that cards have a max level does mean you can always catch up. A quick note, I am not aware of what leveling up the cards will do so the power up they get if any might be small or it might be big time will tell. I do know that I will stick around and keep interacting with these groups and have a feeling I will buy a few more packs soon.
I would also like to point out that there are a lot of people really helping to push this project. That is very promising. I just got on the site today and look how fast I got access to banners and artwork. Thank you 
