Get them before they're gone!! Can you "afford" to wait? by welshstacker

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· @welshstacker ·
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Get them before they're gone!! Can you "afford" to wait?
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As I wrote in my last #steemmonsters [blog **(HERE)**](https://steemit.com/steemmonsters/@welshstacker/still-stuck-in-gold-i-and-how-i-plan-to-progress-my-end-of-season-reward-cards), I've been saving my DEC hard and trying to buy the summoners I need to get to lvl 5.

If you haven't noticed now, I guess you never will.... The price of all summoners has started to skyrocket. I'd say some cards seeing a 100% increase in asking price. 

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I've been concentrating on getting my WATER splinter upto lvl 5 and so I've been buying the old water wizard himself, *Alric Stormbringer*:

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I've been playing #steemmonsters (aka #splinterlands) for a good while now and have built up a rather substantial "reward" card base, so much so that my monster levels far exceed the summoners I have.

I'm sick of only making it to GOLD I and I'm determined to make it to the DIAMOND leagues once again. I have faith in my strategies and deck combinations for battles, but as good as they are, I just get out gunned and out muscled by the cards I'm now facing.

You see, getting summoners to level 5 allows you to unlock a whole new level of abilities from your monsters. Some of the weaker cards now become essential to winning, cards that never get played at lower levels are now first choice picks. 

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Last night I pulled the trigger on my largest, most expensive card purchase (to date). Prices for individual summoners are so much more expensive than buying already combined cards. So with 8 summoners still needed to make it to lvl 5, I sifted through the market place, in search for a bargain. 

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I managed to come across a lvl 3 (5BCX) summoner, listed by @sourovafrin, for only $1.60 per BCX. For context, this morning, Alric Stormbringer are fetching $2 per individual card. I couldn't wait to save enough DEC to purchase this card, so bit the bullet and spent some steem.

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It's always a gamble when buying cards and a million thoughts went through my head...... Are these really a good investment? Will the prices come down the moment I buy this? Bla Bla bla!! All I know is, I enjoy wasting hours playing this game, so it's definitely worth it regardless of price.

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After picking up those 5 cards, that are now on "cool-down" , it leaves me with just having to find 3 more to make it to level 5, and the promised lands of DIAMOND leagues. Hahahahaha

I still think the prices of individual summoners has a long way to run yet and as they sell more, and the scarcity becomes even more realised prices will climb even higher.

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With the release of the new *UNTAMED* collection still a few months away, I do think about the effect it might have on the prices of cards. I understand that these ALPHA and BETA sets will never be reproduced and so therefore have a "collectors" value to them too, but new summoners means another accessible way to climb the leagues for less money..... Only time will tell what the new collection brings, I just know, for now, the **FOMO** has me good and proper and I want to do the best I can right now! 

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Thanks for taking the time to read this post. It turned out to be a rather long winded post about just buying a few cards.. Lol

If anyone has any spare summoner cards to swap/sell, please don't hesitate to get in touch. 

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@mattclarke ·
So hard to know what to do. I just finished maxing most of my Alpha summoners; but Selenia and Zintar didn't make the cut. I might branch out and grab a Jarlax so I can give my Death team a run in 'Silenced Summoners'. 
I remember regretting not going in on the Kickstarter last time, and I haven't learned my lesson, since I'm not going in on this one either. I spent all my fiat play money diversifying into silver coins :)
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@welshstacker ·
Silver coins will be the end of you.... Here I am still sitting on a mountain of the stuff, just casually waiting for the world to go to shit so I can say "I told you all so".... I suppose you could always play tiddlywinks with the coins??
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@monster-curator ·
Yeah, FOMO time!

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@welshstacker ·
Cheers @monster-curator, the fomo got me again last night and I blew another 55steem on summoners. Oops!
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@steemmonsters ·
***You are right about the prices! Splinterlands to the moon! LOL! I love your awesome Splinterlands posts! ~ @clove71*** ![](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmQjeHsTC2LusAyFSHq2WfkqnDS4Pm8gpexpt9q73zmC7y/curation%20(700px,%2012fps).gif)
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@welshstacker ·
Thank you @clove71. It's always great to know my content is appreciated by its intended audience.
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@schubes ·
Legendary summoners have barely moved. I think there will be a set of good cheaper summoners in untamed otherwise it would make the game too unaccesible to new players
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@welshstacker ·
That's what I think too. I'm hoping prices don't freefall when new summoners hit the market. I hope the team at @steemmonsters has some plan to make the original summoners hold their value - like "untamed" summoners can only call untamed monsters, but alpha/beta cards can call all.
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