Steemmonsters: the chase for Gold 1! Can I make it?

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This season has been great for me so far, but just like any season I do want to reach Gold I before the season is over.
Just like the last season, I only focussed on the daily quest. Didn't play a lot outside the daily quest!
And yes just like last season I did miss some quests!
At the moment I do have a rating of 2329, which ranks me on place 517. So I should be able to make some more progress!
Last season I did end on place 403 with 2527 ranking points. So I do think that it is possible with 1 day and 11 hours more to go. Only 171 more points are needed!

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So we all earn DECs now, so what to do with it! I have bought some orbs but mostly my DEC are spent on the Enhanced Quest Potion. This does give me 2 extra cards per completed daily quest!
This does increase my chances on a better reward card!
I am also intriged by the mystery potion. I haven't tried that one before. I believe I did read somewhere that you also can got an orb or beta pack as mistery reward. Guess I will have to try that one also at least once!

The best quest reward!

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Well my best quest reward was a golden foil Manticore. That was just an amazing pull. But the question was what I am going to do with it! I never play the dragon cards. My dragon boss is just to weak and just because I am mainly focussing on the daily quest!
So I decided to sell it. I did get 37 steem for it! Which did bring up another question. What am I going to do with the 37 extra steem in my pocket? Shall I invest in steemmonster cards or just power it up!
The problem with increasing the level of the 2 summoners I still have at L4 it that it doesn't stop there. If I do upgrade one of the 2 summoners I will also feel obliged to increase the monsters accordingly.
I could also have choisen to try to level up one of the summoners already at level 5, but that it would have become even worse because upgrading the monsters to the level suited for a L6 summoner is quite costly!
So I decided to decrease my losses at steemmonsters and power it up!

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I also won a beta pack with the minnow power up league organised by the @steemcommunity!
And for once there was a great card in the beta booster pack. A beautiful legendary.
I am now the proud owner of:

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And again a question which has to be answered! What am I going to do with it! It's market value is $9.60, so a little bit more than 20 steem! Time will tell!
Thx @abh12345 and @paulag!

Cheers,
Peter

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Congrats on the GF manticore! I pulled one a while ago too, and sold it instantly - not a doubt in my mind. :0) Got 17 USD for it, if I remember correctly, ... I don't remember how much Steem that was at the time.

Personally I think the mystery potion is only worth it if you get the 100% one. At least you get something every day. It has given me beta packs, Orbs, but also worthless reward cards, like a Rusty or an archer... like I don't have enough of those, lol. I get all hyped up when I receive the daily reward, and then it's a disappointment to get a reward card only.

Every ? couple of days, a valuable maxed summoner is given out to someone who has the mystery potion. So yesterday, I bought it for 2 of my accounts. This morning I received an Exploding Dwarf in one account, but an Orb in the other. So it depends a bit on luck whether it is worth it or not.

So jealous... you got a Hydra.... It has been ages since I pulled one.
I definitely need to check the market. last time I was drooling over one, they were like $15 or so... too expensive imo.

Maybe other people will disagree (although I think it will only be a few), but personally I think it's an awesome card once it has been leveled up to level 3.
Even though it has self-heal, 6 lives at level 1 is not enough to be a strong card. I never use it in the lower leagues, but can't go without it in the leagues that allow you to play a level 3 or 4.

Good luck on ranking up. I think I'm going to spend some time trying to rank up too. Once again, I'm dreaming of that top 50. It's going to be a close call again, but I'm afraid I still lack the skills to get there. I ended in 34th place 2 seasons ago, but that was more of a lucky shot than anything else :0)

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Mmh, I was thinking about the 50% potion thingy. 6000 DEC is out of my ball park. Way out of it!
I could sell Hydra for 1500 DEC and burn a card which some players do want :)
That would bring my total DEC holding on just above 4K.
With my luck I will get a Vampire on day 1, a Rusty androind on day 3 and that would be it :)
Maybe I could sell the Hydra, bring the steem to steem-engine and buy some Decs with it! Let's try that out! I do think that this would give me more DEC than converting it directly!

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Good luck in your quest for gold! You can do it.

I haven't bought any essence orbs yet. I mostly trade my DEC for Steem and PAL to power up but I should start using it to upgrade my cards I think. The new rule sets have put my regular strategy at a disadvantage lol

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I also had to tweak my tactics. Still getting my ass kicked from time to time against lower cards :)
But still playing the daily quest is rewarding!
Cheers,
Peter

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Lovely!

I forget who bagged a $130 card from the Power-up league - I do like seeing nice cards being part of what we give out!

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Ohhhh... nice pack opening! I'm also just short of Gold 1... not sure if I can make it this time... but I'm only a little bit short of the cutoff! I didn't see that Enhanced Quest Potion before, I might pick myself up one of those as well!

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