Resources aren’t an excuse for execution. To make cards first and then build around the cards was a poor game design. Mind you, I’ve seen steem monsters growth from the beginning. You were expected to buy cards and packs with no real understanding of what the card was or what it would do. Literally the cards were blank pictures of monsters with no indication as to how the card would play. That’s not an investment worth making cause you were just buying pics of cards with the faith they knew what they were doing.

You can’t use resources of money as an excuse because MTG didn’t have that financial support and still had a plan and made the most successful card game in history.

Mind you I admire and respect the initiative taken by the community to build steem monsters but blank cards were not a good enough faith investment for me.