Like The White Rabbit, I'm Late, But Undeterred. 12 Pack Opening And An Update To My Strategy.

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Well I am fashionably late with this post as I have been feeling decidedly grotty as I've been a little unwell of late.

You see, I usually try and make a Rising Star 12 pack, card opening on the 1st of the month, or thereabouts as that is the glorious day that was foretold to us many millennia ago that the new cards would drop for mankind to peruse and perhaps even pur-chase...

However as the old adage says you can't keep a mediocre good man down, so here I am undaunted and ready to share in my glorious triumphs as I wonder, will today be the day when my 12 packs yield 12 legendary cards?

I know what you're thinkin', not bloody likely Steven!!!

I am, however an eternal optimist, so let's see if today is that magical day...

YUP! The horrendous thumbnail graphic is back large as life, once again.

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So without further ado (what the hell does 'ado' even mean? Answers on a postcard addressed to sleepy Joe Biden please.) it's time for me to embark on the exciting yet Herculean task of opening another 12 packs of cards from the epictastical Rising Star game.

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Toward the end of the post I will share a change in strategy for any extra STARBITS that I have left after the 100,000 that it costs for a 12 pack that I highly recommend to anyone, early in their busking career or who wants to be a little more proactive in building their collection.

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How could I possibly go any further without gratuitously and equally shamelessly, shilling my affiliate link this is essential for anyone who is not yet in the NFT game or playing this fabulous blockchain game.

As I mentioned above, you really should join the cool kids over at @Risingstargame, I implore you to cease and desist from being an eggplant from the fourth dimension and immediately become a player using this handy dandy, oh-so-convenient affiliate link that also acts as one of those water saving urinals that all the McDonalds have these days... Kinda.

Enough nonsense, let's rock 'n' roll and get this thing done, I'm excited to see what the rock gods have decided to bestow upon me this time around.

PACK 1

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PACK 2

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PACK 3

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Well that was a mixed kind of start. I already have my first Buster of the day, pleeease let it be the last, I do NOT need to add to my burgeoning collection of 76 billion Buster's. 2 cheap cars also add to this stumbling start to the 12 packs however, Lewis, DJ Chad and a shiny new clarinet will be most welcome in the StevenWood stable of music. Let's keep going.

The cool thing about these first 3 packs is they take me beyond the 650 card milestone in my collection.

PACK 4

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PACK 5

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PACK 6

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Well I am now the proud owner of a rather sexy lookin' hot little flame guitar and I got a bodhran, I've always wanted a bodhran, I can't believe I got a bodhran what the hell is a bodhran???, those 2 cards alone bring me an extra 100 luck to add to my stats.

With my Jedd, Dave, 2 Jacks and a Gabe, I definitely have all the makings of a boyband right there, but with all that hair product and designer gear to lug around Brodie the roadie is definitely gonna have his work cut out.

PACK 7

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PACK 8

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PACK 9

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Well the transport options are mounting before my very eyes. How will I ever decide how to get to my next concert, do I take the touring coach, the cheap car or the rubber dinghy, oh actually, there's no decision at all, is there?

Another Gabe, another Jack and 2 more bodhrans, it's a good job Heather is here to balance things out a little, although her stats leave much to be desired, I wonder if she can get any decent sort of sound out of that cheap violin?

PACK 10

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PACK 11

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PACK 12

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Well I didn't make it through the exercise without adding any more Busters, although with several Gabes and Daves, I fear he may have a little competition in the sheer volume department.

With so many doppelgangers in this weeks packs, you can guess my sheer unadulterated joy at seeing some decent cards too such as clever Trevor, Macy and the ever-lovely Pixie


The problem with receiving so many duplicate cards in my 12 pack hauls, is that my unique card score suffers, which is the most important metric for ranking in the top 100 (or so) and receiving a daily reward.

So from this month onward I have changed my tack slightly.

After spending my 100,000 STARBITS on a 12 pack of cards I used to spend the excess 10 or 20 or some months, 30 thousand on an extra couple of packs, however I am going to start using the excess to buy some targeted cards from my wish list. This helps me feel I making some tangible progress toward my goals and plugs some of the gaping gaps in my collection.

So with that in mind, I made a list of a dozen or so unique cards that I would like to own, to help my collection and set to work researching the best prices on the market for them. I mainly chose inexpensive to mid expensive cards in order to give me the most bang for my bodhran buck.

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Alicia and Ray were nice additions for the very reasonable combined cost of around 15k STARBITS. I was happy to plug some of the gaps in my instrument list very cheaply indeed.

I think this will prove to be a much more balanced strategy to grow my collection alongside the 12 pack purchases that I enjoy so much, going forward. It is gonna cost me an absolute bloody fortune when I come to start buying legendary and epic cards, however that just shows the long term huge potential of owning the better cards too.

Playing Rising Star is the absolute best way for a technophobe like me who also has the added drawback of not being 'made of money' (I'm sure many of you can concur wholeheartedly) to get in on the NFT market, remember these are not just trading cards, they are legitimate tradable NFT's in their own right.

Which reminds me, this is the last opportunity to share my affiliate link Well, in the words of the wicked witch of the West, when she wanted to share her blockchain affiliate links

"Shill my pretties, shill"

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IM A RISING STAAAAR... I'LL GO FAR...


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