Burning @steemmonsters Cards!🔥
Mixed opinion on this so far, but potentially a solid method of reducing card supply and thus increasing value?
Earlier today, I read a post by @jrvacation suggesting to burn unused and potentially 'worthless' cards. I was unsure at first if this would come across and good or bad promotion for @steemmonsters, but after speaking to the SM boss (who by the way is working his backside off to boost the value of SM cards) and checking he was game for this idea to be pushed, here I am to set some cards alight 🔥
When I read the post linked above, I immediately thought 'Rusty Android'. As far as I can remember, I've not used this card once and believe the Mana rating to be at least a point too high. And well, it just looks a bit turd too.
'Sadly', I didn't have 100 of these to send to @null, and so I went and bought a load from https://peakmonsters.com. It seems you can both buy and sell the Rusty Android for a cent - he's not very popular at all!
Proof of Burn
Any card can be burnt by gifting it to @null.
https://steemd.com/tx/64af28ae3b4bcb4ba1954611a4ca412e567ec698
https://steemd.com/tx/036378aa93f6d2e712aa2e9ee6408047f4f62a66
https://steemd.com/tx/42a7940aab816a6411a9e3782b5d1e4b352f6eef
https://steemd.com/tx/d9314eb02f302cbaed08928f3d818e2f851f99d
Anything else?
Well yes, you could well get an up-vote from @jrvacation (and potentially @yabapmatt) for carrying out this task of reducing supply of a particular card - you'll need to burn $1 worth, and prove it as above.
In a weird twist, also bought and leveled up a bunch of Rusty Androids, just in case they all catch fire and become a bit of a collectors piece. Something I hope all the cards will become in time.
Today's quest - Haunted by the Droid!
I've just finished today's daily quest, and I was hoping to have something amusing to share - e.g. A chuffing Rusty Android, let's see...
No surprise, but he is gold today and I'm not brave enough to set this one on fire just yet!
Happy burning all!
Cheers
Asher
I have actually used him, he does have magic reflect, and 3 for attack then 4 when he gets to level 8, one of only 2 neutrals with magic reflect. I am building a neutral team to be used with Daria, and only one of the other splinter cards. I have no chance of ever leveling any of the colored splinters up, but neutral, that one still has a chance.
I have seen that rusty Android one too many times in the rewards. Good idea to burn that one!
And I am glad you actually showed how to do it by the gifting bit!
Useless pile of rust!
I do still hold a leveled up Rusty though, just in case :D
Wasn't 100% sure how to do it myself to start with, but I guess it makes sense. I wonder what else will be sent to @null in the coming months and years. Oh hi mother-in-law!
Coincidentally I got a gold Rusty Android as well today! Never sold a gold before :D Burning is potentially a great idea, although I now decided to get all cards from the market and maybe level them up to max - I don't have any maxed out cards yet, so that could be a great way to get some excitement back when I get a Rusty in my daily rewards :')
How strange! Did you check the value? A meager 10 cents, for a gold!
I only have a few maxed out cards, I decided early to max Selenia Sky (cause I lucked out with a gold Chromatic Dragon), but as she's no good for the daily splinter quests, I've not been using this summoner so much.
A few of my water cards are maxed out, and some of the gold fire splinters are getting there. I was hoping orignally that golds would do something more than normals, and so spent a fair bit on them. I can't see any benefit to leveling golds up over normals as yet - hopefully they will be worth a nice sum in future though.
I can't imagine ever being excited about receiving a Rusty Android in my daily rewards, unless he's gold and there's 10 of them :D
10 cents! It's sad indeed :')
Yeah, I could max out some cards, but I upgraded my summoners all to level 4 and am leveling up accordingly. Not prepared to go higher since I've invested all the FIAT I was willing to spend on it :-) This has gotten me to a Diamond League in past seasons, so not bad :D It's getting harder though :') (And I might just lose a bit of excitement, so waiting for new gameplays to come up and see what smart moves to make then.)
Anyway, it's keeping us busy, that's a good thing :D I'm hoping this burning thing gets big and I'll be the only one stubbornly leveling up my Rusty which then will be super rare :') #nohope
Damn, nice summoner leveling! I'm way off the diamond league, my summoners are pretty crap apart from Selenia.
I'm hodling one too, and may have to keep an eye on what's being burned!
I think it is also an interesting approach but can risk that the developers change aspects and abilities to make it more valuable over time as they have done in the past. I am sure they are actively watching the market and have a list of changes they may need to make. One thought would be to provide SM tokens (which I believe already exist on Steem Engine) for burnings cards like this.
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Yes indeed, and why I've doubled my hold on this particular card as well :)
SM tokens for card burning, interesting! I wonder what @yabapmatt thinks of that idea!
😂😂😂 you bought cards just to burn it and get a $1+ votes😂😂😂 that's funny @abh12345 😂 when I've been burning hundreds of it to level 8 rusty and level 9 highland archers.. never wrote a screenshot and single line word posts... i dunno what to do with my post.. but I got only 10% uopvote from SM-voters and never a maverick except my friends😂.. i just can't stand laughing😂😂😂
This is a record for number of 😂 emoji's in a comment! haha
Yes, buy and burn and get a vote worth more - makes sense to me! Plus, the Rusty's I do own have just gotten that little bit rarer!
Well.. I still have one on level 4 to be burn😂😂😂 plus 5 golden rusty to keep as collection
5! Well done :)
Soon I'm going to start buying more cards again, I think they are very cheap at present and so selling (unless absolutely necessary) could be unwise!
Buy it from me then 😂 or you can just trade it with one of your dragon😂😂😂 goosshhh.. Im trying to be a pro-trader now
If you are selling what I want at the cheapest price, I will certainly be buying from you :P
You are the member of team possible guild 😉 don't you know that we will trade among others first before we bought somethinh from the market later? Tell me how much you want for 100 genies😉
I leveled some of them up! 😉
When I last played a game like this, burning multiples would be done for power up, but singles never. The idea was to collect everything. Also developers would balance the game amd u never know wlespecially with rares.
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you think I get 2 votes for burning a foil legendary?
haha! NOOOOOOOO! You don't do that, you do this with them cards:
is this a dare?
Errr... I'm not sure!
Wonder what colour flame a gold burn creates? :D
It is simple supply and demand there are not enough people playing the game and collecting as their are cards. More players more people collecting higher value
And if we don't have the players yet, we just get rid of some cards :) I'm hopeful that the next bull run will bring people along.
In my opinion before reducing the cards supply maybe changing the mana, attack, speed and life would be better, making the card more playable, maybe some people would actually use them... but oh well, I'm still starting out on steemmonsters, I need a better summoner or I won't increase in leagues...
Yeah that is an option, I don't really mind which approach is taken but I do like the idea of reducing supply to increase demand. Someone burning a bunch of SBD right now would go down a treat :)
And yeah, summoner level-ups are pretty key - you are knackered without at least one decent caller!
I also like the burning idea, but we need to think of long-term, what will happen in the next bubble when we get thousands of new users? if we reduce the supply too much the game might become too expensive for them, don't really know how they will implement a new card system, will they continue to create booster? These are all the thing that can influence the economy of the game in the future and are of concern, because imo Stemmonsters is my number one dapp game, right alongside with EOSknights (don't enjoy drugwars very much because of the pay2win system and pyramid system, but let's see where it goes, i play it for fun)
@abh12345, Let's see how this will going to affect this Economy. But whatever it is we have to see the expansion in value because value and extended use case will going to help the Steem Economy. Stay blessed.
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