🐉 Steem Monsters Collectibles 💰 α (Alpha) Cards 💰 The 1. Edition on the Steem Blockchain

in #steemmonsters6 years ago (edited)

Dear Steemit friends,

Steem Monsters is a phenomenon which occurs not every day on the Steem blockchain. The project gone live 3-4 months ago as α (Alpha) version and sold 300,000 Booster Packs from a collection of 59 unique Steem Monsters cards with USD value of $600,000! Currently there are over 2,000 players. Some do every day trading cards, other hodling them and some preparing for battle in October. This post is about Steem Monsters Collectibles and explain the term α-cards a bit more in detail.

What means α?

α stands for the first letter in the greek alphabet and simply indicates the beginning of Steem Monsters. The team (@yabapmatt and @aggroed) released 59 unique characters as regular and gold foil card version within 5 splinters or elements at start. To be more precise, the gold foil editition of α-cards were introduced at a later point. All people who had already bought booster packs benefited from a airdrop like event were gold foil cards were dropped at a very low rate (see also table below) depending on the number of cards someone had bought. Both the regular and golden cards are called α-cards now if they were contained in the first 300,000 booster packs which sold out on September 11th with staggering speed in the last minutes. It was like New Years Eve event for the team and community! β-cards will arrive soon but they are different as i point out later.

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How can i get α-cards now?

  1. Steem Monsters provides a secondary market for trading α-cards which now are the only available cards in the Steem Monsters universe. Another well known frontend for the same market is Peakmonsters which provides bulk buying and selling for example and you can also analyze transactions via the Explorer. If you look for high security without any hassle dealing person to person this is for you because transaction of STEEM and SBD with buying and selling is automated via SteemConnect which makes it very convenient and secure to trade.

  2. steembay auction - this works like a escrow service via Steemit posts which contain special tag *
    steembay* and some commands the auctioner and the bidders can use in comments. It works, i did my own auction and also put my bid on some auctions. You can look here for current auctions. The good thing about everyone can see who made the highest bid and have to pay for the auction purchase which makes this quite save especially for more valuable Steem Monsters.

  3. OTC - over the counter with other Steemians who offer their Monsters via Discord or Steemit chat.

Discord - Steem Monsters channel look for category MT MOX MONSTER MARKET there

Discord - TSMG channel look for #trading-room

The difference is, everything is manually and there is no guarantee that a deal will be completed. You must trust the other party. You simply negotiate a deal via direct message and each party is sending the monsters or funds to finish the deal. I traded several times with people and had no issues. But i recommend to look for reputation, chat history, ask friends before trading this way with high amounts of STEEM. Also some users offer escrow service as third party to provide more security.

How many α-cards are available on the market

If you look in the market you'll see for each rarity class different numbers. To be more precise check the following table:

rarity levelavg available cards marketavg low price
per common800$0.06
per rare/summoner300$0.09/$0.30
per epic150$0.40
per legendary/selenia sky100$5/$10
per gold common70$4
per gold rare/summoner25$11/$30
per gold epic15$50
per gold legendary/selenia sky5$1,000/$2,000

You'll see there are plenty of cards available for ONE PLAYER but not for 10 if you wanna level up to maximum XP (see table below). But there is another fact. Each time the supply shrinks trading bots kickin' in and flooding the market with new cards. Sure, that's limited until the sources are empty and some trading bots might have a few thousands of cards at hand bot not many. If many players wanna max out their decks it would immediately shorting the supply and increase the prices of α-cards. This already happened after the sell-out of booster packs.

What is the value of α-cards?

Basically value lies always in the eye of the beholder but there are some facts and facts don't lie. People bought the cards with booster packs $2 each. In each booster pack there were 5 random cards. The cards dropped out in different rates, check the following table:

rarity classdrop rate %every n cards
common68%1.5
rare26%3.5
epic5%20
legendary1%100
gold common1%100
gold rare0.35%286
gold epic0.08%1,250
gold legendary0.01%10,000

If you wanted a special golden legendary card like the Lord of Darkness your odds were like in the picture below. That means every about 44,000 cards a Lord of Darkness dropped in your account, or in other words every 8,800 booster packs (which are a USD value of $17,600!). You can imagine how rare such cards are and especially the α-cards which will never be issued again in the future!

If you want one golden LoD, i have one for you and also a golden Angel of Light. Golden legendaries are traded from about $700 up to $5,000 currently. Just dm me on discord via onetin84#1236 if you are interested.

If you look in the market there is a clear relationship between rarity and value but also some inefficiency if you look for value per maxed out card. The most value for your STEEM or SBD is currently in rare and epic cards. It is about half the costs compared to a common card and about 1/10 compared to legendary.

What comes after α?

The next phase is β (Beta). The β-phase includes β-cards. They consist also of the 59 unique character + new characters already presented with the start of the kickstarter and fundition campaign. Both are still running and you get a chance to get the new β-characters as collectibles. These special cards are just issued while kickstarter and fundition is running. But there are more new cool cards in the pipeline, you see below:

Jarlax The Undead
Cyclops

All these cards will be β (Beta) and will also have their value in the Steem Monsters market but the Genesis or α-cards are one of a kind like in any other collectible trading card game and always in great demand by collectors.

Leveling α cards up to make them stronger, why?

If you have at least two single cards of the same character you can combine them to a single card with more XP. This is important for the upcoming tournaments in October. Cards with more XP have a higher chance to win against other cards. Mana is another key number. Some monsters need more mana than others. The latter will be also a entrance ticket to special tournaments with a deck with high mana cost for example. If you wanna make your cards stronger you can combine them up to a certain level to maximum. For regular cards you can see a short table below:

rarity class (regular)no. α cards neededno. β cards neededmax level
common379474⭐10
rare/summoner86108⭐8
epic3240⭐6
legendary810⭐4

The numbers for gold foil cards are much smaller, for example you need just 31 cards for gold foil common to max XP. But they are sold with a average price of $4 currently which means you need at least $124 to max out one single card for special gold foil tournaments which are planned for October.

If you are looking for a maxed-out deck for all splinters you can buy mine. i posted about here

A in depth tutorial for all the levels you'll find in an excellent post by @oliverschmid here.

I hope you understand now why these α-cards are unique and valuable!


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Cards with more XP have a higher chance to win against other cards but also need more mana.

I've seen nothing to suggest you'll need more mana to play a leveled up monster. As far as I'm aware the mana cost will stay the same.

Otherwise great info :-D

Checked a common lvl1 and 10, yes seems so, no difference. That was misleading. Thank you for correction, i'll change that. Basically legendaries need much more mana than common on average. But there are exceptions like the Rexxie or the Selenia Sky too.

schöner guide, zur zeit ist aber noch keine a bezeichnung zu sehen,richtig?

Ja, korrekt, wenn Du Ideen hast wie das aussehen sollte dann mal im Steem Monsters channel auf discord vorbeischauen. Kann sein das die Entwickler noch offen für neue Ideen sind. Letzte Info war das auf den Karten mit Einführung der Beta kenntlich zu machen. Vielen Dank!

Nice write up.

This is a really good intro to the SteemMonsters world and why the alpha cards will keep great value.
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Thanks! Please spread the message if your heart belongs to the α-cards!

Wow, this is an amazing overview. That was super helpful, thank you. I am running a Steem Monster bounty contest for ten weeks where you can earn Up tokens for giving away cards and by drawing new monsters. Check it out.

Thank you, i'll have a look in your bounty contest, sounds intriguing to me. Everything which support this great project helps!

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