Hey guys! I've come up with an idea what could help solve a lot of problems associated with the devaluation of cards! Before we go any further, this post assumes you understand how Steem Monsters works so far.

The Grand Idea Overview

As stated in the title, single card story missions! Basically, each card will have a story arc that you can complete! Each story arc will contain 4 acts, which increase in difficulty but when you beat an act, you gain a permanent boost to the monster's stats. When you complete the final act, you'll gain the monster's special ability. Each attempt will cost cards to enter, so make sure you're ready for what's waiting ahead!

Story Arcs

These will be short stories that the community can come up with! There are already many contests that are in the works, and I'm sure that many of the elements from those stories can be adapted into 4 acts, and used as the final story arc for the card. Each arc must contain fighting of course, and should feature OTHER cards as the enemies or allies! These cards will be the cards you fight against or the allies you'll have!

Each Act

Act I will be the easiest, and require the minimum amount of cards to enter, and each act will increase in both entry fee and difficulty!

Your Team

Your team each fight will consist of the summoner of that specific card, the card and the allies mentioned in the story. If the story doesn't specify, you may choose!

Entry Fee

• Unlock: you must own at least one max level copy of that card, this card will be SOULBOUND* upon unlock
• Act I: 5 of the card + 1 summoner card for the card's respective element
• Act II: 10 of the card + 2 summoner cards for the card's respective element
• Act III: 25 of the card + 3 summoner cards for the card's respective element
• Act IV: 50 of the card + 5 summoner cards for the card's respective element
• *Soulbound == cannot be traded

Stat Gain

• Act I: 10%
• Act II: 25%
• Act III: 50%
• Act IV: 100% + unlock special ability
• Each additional time you complete act IV, you'll be granted 1% stat boost to the card AND summoner card (additive)!
  Remember, the stat gain is ONLY unlocked for that specific card, and applies only to you.

Impacts

This will be for the very late game of course, where people have combined heaps of max level cards, their cards won't simply be useless, they'll have an endless hole to throw cards into to make themselves stronger!

This means as the game goes on, cards won't simply become more and more devalued, as there will ALWAYS be a purpose for cards. Max level common? NICE! 10 of the same max level commons??? NICER! But you can still upgrade them more by completing their story missions!

This will help solve the unlimited supply issue, as the circulating supply won't be constantly going up, it'll reach an equilibrium and begin to go down/stabilise at some point!