Long long time again, in the cold winter of 2020, I found steemmonsters website. Some people like @costanza and @khazrakh kept publishing some reports and article on their blogs about this strange game, Play2Earn and so, with some interesting cards pictures, and I was looking in there not understanding much.
One day I decided to try it, and when I started it was not much, as I did not buy the spellbook yet, and basically I lost like 8-9 matches until I finally won one. I must to admit, I had no idea what those strange characters do or how to use them. I read the help, and I start to look for articles about it. I did not find much, but some people like my friend now, @mercurial9 , had some really good posts explaining beginners how to start. I discovered hive blogs, and i become quite active for a while on LeoFinance one, but what is more important, I decided to invest 10$ into the game, buying my spellbook and getting the possibility to go up into the ranks. It was very hard to fight in bronze league, as at the moment when I started there were less ghost cards to use than now. One day, after few daily quests done, i discovered how to level up my cards. And i decided to invest another 50$ to upgrade my summoners. With some cards I bought, with some other lended by @costanza, I managed to reach the Silver league. Now that was the life. I was getting not one, but two chests as rewards for the quests.
I was mesmerized when I found up this.
I realized that the higher you go, the easier it is. After that increasing the value of my collection was much more easier, and month after month my firepower increased, and I start to enjoy the game. I went up to Gold in few months, and to Diamond even for a short 5 minutes time. But achieving Silver was the most satisfying moment of all, as this was the time when i start to understand how to play Splinterlands.
Now it is much more easier to start, as the beginners have access to all the Alpha/Beta ghost cards, and not to mention that we have Splintertalk forum, where you can find a lot of information about the game.
The latest update, I could see this:
Splinterlands Stats for: mightyrocklee :stars:
Number of cards: 259 - Common: 93, Rare: 80, Epic: 38, Legendary: 28
Alpha: 33 - Beta: 31 - Promo: 9 - Reward: 83 - Untamed: 83 - Dice: 20
Gold cards: 23 ## BCX: 4452 ## Value: $ 1689.4 ##
I was an amazing journey from zero to almost $2000 (a bit less now, maybe the dip is affecting the game also), but me, and occasionally some members of my family enjoy have a talk over a Splinterlands match. My little brother @pvmihalache is also enjoying the game, maybe more than me.
Sometimes, following a goal, the journey is the one that matter.
All the best,
George
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