I have been playing 
There were glitches Sunday and Monday on the SteemMonsters website, and it made it nearly impossible to Battle. But once it was fixed, I won both daily quests and was rewarded with a 5 card Beta Booster Pack for each quest.
The first pack was unremarkable; just one rare. The second pack, shown below, had a rare and a gold foil card! Gold foil cards start at a higher level than regular cards and are more rare and hard to get. Therefore they sell for more in the SteemMonsters Marketplace.
As mentioned, the site had a server problem at exactly the wrong time because the two main creators of SteemMonsters were in Poland for SteemFest 3. There was a little communication on Discord but nothing on the site to explain the issue or estimated time to be back to normal.
This reminds me of something called key man insurance which is a way to financially keep a company alive if it loses a person or persons crucial to the operation. One way to mitigate such catastrophes is to delegate some authority and distribute some knowledge to others in the company.
Another issue is the match making algorithm. It can't be fun for either the winner or loser to spend any time watching an extremely mismatched battle. The outcome is known from the start. For example, my other account faced one of the top players in the game, with almost 10 times higher rating. Maybe when no other players are waiting for battles, it can be argued that at least a game can be played with a match like this. I'd like to wait a little longer, rather than meet this kind of imbalance.
There has been some discussion on Discord about the effect of bots / scripts playing games rather than actual persons. We have the same issue on Steemit with Votebots. It does add volume to the available battles, but it does seem that most of the bots are run by people with powerful decks, maybe part of the cause of the mismatch issue I mentioned above. 
Another discussion on Discord is about the dilution of card value due to all the daily quest and season ending booster packs being distributed. Perhaps the amount of cards given out will change in the future, or maybe it won't be an issue if new players keep joining. Other ways to reward players are coming too, I would imagine.
I am very happy with the progress of the
For more About Me, and the #fromstartertochampion challenge, please read my introduction post.
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It's Fun to start from the bottom and work your way up. You too can go from Apprentice to Master!
