A Steem Monsters identity design for all channels is great news! This should really push forward branding of it.

The irreversible operation of combining remains like now and i'm fine with it til the point where you make a mistake. I had such situation with trading cards and wished we (i and @nikokafka) could un-combine these cards to immediately see what went wrong. Imagine the following situation:

• we made a trade 3x Chromatic Dragon vs. 3x Lightning Dragon - sent the cards to each other
• he combined the Chromatics and then recognized that he was overleveled with 900 XP asked me if i had sent one of the three with Lvl2
• maybe he was right, but we couldn't figure out what really happened because you cannot simply look in a combined card to see the history tree of combining and ownership.. i tried to inspect the blockchain with ID C-N3SRFO0TAO of the combined Chromatic with the help of @blervin but soon realized that was not for me and gave up

Un-combining in this situation would be really helpful but i think not necessary if you have the right tools and visualization of combining history on hand. Please take this in consideration. It would be also interesting for collectors to see family tree of combined cards with all buyers, sellers, last ownership for example.. and would be real life saver for such mistakes, which can also happen with wrong pricing a leveled-up card.

Currently it's quite hard do determine the market value of a combined card because you don't know how many cards are inside a combined if you don't know about the level-up-system with number of needed cards in detail. It's also hard for buyers to realize the value of such offered cards, often they remain in the market (my experience with offers), because i guess not many can calculate it or want calculate it.. and missing a steal. It could also be helpful for the market to give an estimate for sellers what their card (e. g. lvl5 rare) is worth with the currently cheapest price for a single cards (x combined cards).

So maybe it's worth a consideration to make un-combining possible to single card level for all cards. Imagine the first card ever created in the game is stucking in a combined card and you cannot extract it and it could worth $1 million for a collector? 😂

Another topic are statistics. There were distorted views regarding the number of owned cards in some statistics because of forgetting counting un-combined cards owned by a collector/player. You can have just 1 cards but in reality you own 379 single cards combined in a max-lvl common. Key numbers could be:

• number of single cards (also combined broken down)
• total XP with all cards (would be also indicator of how many cards someone really holds)

Game Jam looks like building alternative games in the SM universe as i understand right?

Thanks for limiting supply to a definite number of 300k packs or below now and a alpha sign. But i thought the current edition with the individual characters would be not available anymore. What is the reason to distribute them further in beta? I thought of whole new editions and that the alpha cards can be freely traded between collectors and player like now. Is there a certain point when current characters will be stopped completely?