What the pack guarantees actually mean

In games where foils are scarce, any foil carries a premium. When every pack has one, common foils are likely to sit near the bottom of the market, with value concentrating in foils of the top rarities and the most wanted monsters. Expect the same here, though we will confirm it once a real secondary market exists.

Borderless treatments, where the art runs to the card edge, are usually chase-tier scarce. Guaranteeing one per pack makes them a parallel collection rather than a lottery. Our card pages list every printing we have seen of a card, so the parallel checklist is visible as it grows.

Spin Master has published its rarity ladder - Common, Uncommon, Rare, Legendary, Infamous, and Special, in that order, with Special marking an alternate-art printing rather than a seventh power tier. So we now know the tiers a chase card can land in. We still do not know how often any of them actually turn up in a pack, and anyone quoting odds before launch is guessing.

The 2 monster cards exclusive to the starter set and the foil promo exclusive to the $60 collector bundle. Product-exclusive cards in a new game are where early collector money tends to go, because supply is capped by a product that stops printing. They are also where early collector money goes to die if the game folds. Both outcomes have precedent. We will track their listed prices on this page monthly once a secondary market exists.

Sleeve the exclusives, keep the initiative coin in the bundle box, and do not pay singles-market prices in the first two weeks. Launch-window singles prices in most new games are set by impatience and drop once supply normalizes; we would expect the same pattern here, though it is worth watching rather than assuming.