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The first transfer to [Steem Monsters](steemmonsters.com/?ref=variola) for packs went from @yabapmatt on 21st May. Since then, Steem Monsters is unstoppable in the STEEM landscape. Only 10 days later, I bought my starter pack. From then on, almost countless booster packs. But only almost countless. 

Out of boredom, I have summed up my transfers **to** and **from** Steem Monsters and what shall I say? It's more than I thought!
My investment paid off against the return and I was able to power up to 500 Steem Power without much effort and with lot of fun in just 4 months! 

My calculations goes from 21st Mai until the start of sale of the beta packs 2018-09-18. These are the pure transfer payments. I've also partially converted SBD to STEEM to buy more packs *of course*.

- My investment of a total - **327.333 SBD & 2.714 STEEM** 
- Transfer to Steem Monsters total - **479.234 STEEM & 554.835 SBD** 
- Transfer from Steem Monsters total -  **1087.781 STEEM & 292.087 SBD**
- My first sale was to @the01crow at the 23.6. for cards in the amount of 23 STEEM

Since then I have had more and more fun watching the market and was also looking for bargains. At some point I came home and the gold foil cards were introduced. Also retroactively and I had a lot of luck! They also let rain STEEM into my wallet! 

On 24.7. I got my first gold foil legendary card *Angel Of Light* and a day after she was sold to @kobold-djawa for **264.660 STEEM** and 100 of them were my first bigger power up. After that, my SP was ~210. Amazing how cheap these gold foil legendaries were back then! But it is what it's like...
And after that I started to power up my STEEM and it was only by selling and trading cards that I could get over 500 SP.
Just **~500 only by Steem Monsters** in just 4 months.  

I have also a complete **alpha max earth deck** worth **529,38 STEEM** at the current lowest prices per card on the market, also the half bulk of summoners at  @lyanna and **still unopened 110 alpha packs** - Maybe I'm gonna get rich :D  I've left out the rest of the small stuff, but one thing's for sure - for me was [Steem Monsters](steemmonsters.com/?ref=variola) successful the last 4 months and will remain so! 


See you in the battle arena! 

Variola ✾