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Please tell more about your current situation (budget, experience with music, the digital audio workstation that you use, do you compose music or just mix music etc.) so that anyone can help you better.

Most important advice is don't buy anything yet, because spending any amounts of money on something you know nothing about is a really bad choice in the audio realm.

The reason I say this is because you can get away with a lot for free if this is just a small hobby to you and you have a small budget. There's three things you need to have in order, before you even consider buying third party audio plugins:

1. Do you have a decent computer to produce music with?
   
2. Do you have a decent pair of headphones / studio monitors to mix with?
   
3. Which DAW (FL Studio, Ableton Live, Reaper, Logic etc.) do you plan to use?
   
   I ask these because I don't want to recommend anything before I'm sure how new to this you really are. There are a lot of free software around (especially plugins) that some argue are even better than most paid ones -- plugins that'll get you 80-90% of the quality of paid ones -- but buying plugins is mostly done in consideration of the preference of workflow, genre and "that extra something" that free plugins don't have.
   
   There's a book that I recommend for you and anyone new to mixing and it's called "Mixing Screts for the Small Studio (2nd ed.) by Mike Senior. The long awaited 2nd edition just came out a few months ago and it's probably the best book about mixing right now. It will go more in depth about mixing at home than any reddit comment, so consider buying it before any plugins. His website also has a ton of free multitrack files for mixing practice that even I do weekly just for fun and to learn new plugins. I've studied music technology and film audio for a combined 8 years and it's still a very helpful resource.
   
   TL;DR Don't buy plugins yet, tell what you use to make music with and buy the book linked above to get started on learning how to mix.

It’s never too early to go MPE and add more expression to your music! Good savings on the Seaboard RISE 49 model too, $879 is best price I’ve seen for a new one in awhile, outside of refurbished deals (like Amazon Warehouse currently has a $627 one listed “acceptable” https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B01B2PI2Y2/ref=sr_1_4_olp?ie=UTF8&qid=1542816164&sr=8-4&keywords=seaboard+rise )

This was interesting to me at first glance, but is it really much of a deal? Senn HD 650s are $320 on Amazon right now and might go lower during black friday sales, and Sonarworks Studio Edition is $250. Add in the $25 flat shipping fee for the bundle and it doesn't seem great?

edit: also, sonarworks itself went on sale for like $80 off a few months ago according to this sub's history

edit 2: also, if you just want headphones and a tool for mixing/mastering on headphones, it might be cheaper to use the headphone edition of sonarworks rather than the studio edition.

or get a stylophone for even cheaper?