Although for now the game is still in pre-sale modus, its popularity is unseen before.

People can buy packs of cards as collectible items. There's an entire marketplace set up to help people to complete their collections.
When a player has multiple of the same cards, these cards can be combined in order to upgrade them. After an upgrade they are stronger and they'll get extra abilities.

These stronger cards are important for when the tournaments will start, some time in the near future.
In these tournaments, players will be able to battle against each other and win prizes.

The game is extremely popular and has not even started yet.


To be allowed to play in the tournaments, you need a 15-card starter pack, which will cost you $5. You can add cards to your collection by purchasing booster packs, which contain 5 random cards and are currently sold for $2/pack.


You can read the announcement post by one of the developers here:
https://steem.ly/y2

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For only 4 more days (until Monday August 27th, 2018) I'm running a special giveaway on my SteemIt page here: https://steem.ly/xH

I'll be giving away no less than 10 SteemMonster Booster Packs and 10 Individual cards.

There's no need to jump through any hoops to be eligible to win - it's an easy giveaway, so everyone stands a chance.

Maybe this could be the start of your own SteemMonsters collection?