At one point I realized that I had accumulated so many cards, all received by winning sweepstakes, that it was time for me to start reciprocate and creating my card contest posts.
It was then that I joined @Contestkings, a wonderful project that all those who take part in sweepstakes should know: "No Upvote, No Resteem, No Follow".
I have won many cards from incredibly generous users like 
This lasted over 1 year and now I also had some Gold and Alpha Cards which are special cards I wanted to collect.
My idea has always been not to get rid of them, and save them as an investment.
It was then that I discovered that it was possible to rent my cards and thereby earn an income without having to sell them.
I got interested in this procedure and went to the PeakMonsters website which is where you can rent the cards to see how it worked.
But I realized that my cards were all Level 1 and so would pay very little for them, or probably would not even be interested in renting them. The only way to get better cards was to start playing!
It was from this moment that I made the happy decision to face the battles!
This was only about a month ago, and that's when the journey I want to narrate in the next posts begins, from its first steps, until I can win my first tournament!