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Game guide
Open packs and collect cards of video games (PC, consoles, retro), studios and publishers.
Open packs, complete your favorite franchises to earn their badges and level up, and try your luck in the raffles.
153,068 cards to collect
A free pack every 10 minutes
Store up to 10 packs, plus a bonus pack every 10 minutes that you open by watching an ad.
9 rarities
From Stinky to Diamond, with more and more spectacular reveals. And the Emerald, one of a kind, to win in raffles.
Franchises, badges and level
Gather every card of a franchise, studio or publisher to earn its badge, from Bronze to Diamond. Each badge raises your collector level.
Raffles
Trade your Shards for tickets and try to win an Emerald card, the only one of its kind.
9 rarities
- Stinky
- Common
- Uncommon
- Rare
- Super Rare
- Ultra Rare
- Legendary
- Diamond
- Emerald
From Stinky to Diamond, with more and more spectacular reveals. And the Emerald, one of a kind, to win in raffles.
How the level works
Each Index collection you complete gives you a badge. The harder the collection (number and rarity of its cards), the higher the badge's tier and the more points it gives.
- Bronze2 points
- Silver5 points
- Gold10 points
- Platinum25 points
- Diamond50 points
Your points add up, and you gain a level every 10 points. Every level you gain gives you a Super Rare pack, with a Super Rare card or better guaranteed.
Everything else in the game
Trades and auction house
Offer trades to other players, cards and Shards included: both sides must be worth about the same. At the auction house, list up to 10 cards at a time and bid on other players' cards; 5% of the final price is taken on each sale.
Binders and wishlist
Store your cards in binders with 9 pockets per page, to show on your profile or keep to yourself. Pin your favorite cards and collections, and add the ones you're missing to your wishlist: other players see what you're looking for.
Foil, Diamond and fusions
A card can come out as a Foil version, and a Legendary as a Diamond version. Gather 3 copies of the same card to fuse them into one, rarer and more beautiful. A spare card can also be torn for Shards.
Festivals
During a festival, join one of the teams: each collection you complete earns it points, from 1 for a Bronze badge to 5 for a Diamond one. At the end, each team gets the rewards for its rank.
Daily streak and referrals
Open at least one pack every day to keep your streak going: from day 3, it gives a Rare Pack every day, plus a Super Rare Pack every 10 days. Each friend you invite who starts playing earns you an Ultra Pack, and they get one too.
Mini-games
Between two packs, play VGCards' mini-games, alone or with your friends. Each one has its own rules page.
What's new
What changed in the game, update by update.
Card reviews and guest mode
New
- Card reviews: rate a card from 1 to 5 and say what you think, from its details. Reviews also appear on the franchise's public page.
Improvements
- Guest mode: without an account, you can browse packs, the Index, auctions and rankings, open trial packs and play a solo game of VG Quiz. Nothing is saved until you create an account.
- Franchise encyclopedia: only the main franchises remain, automatically created pages are removed. In-game collections don't change.
The Arena takes a break
Rules and balance
- The Arena is closed for now while we rework it. The “Win an Arena fight” daily quest is removed.
A livelier social feed
New
- Message of the day: each day, write a short message above the social feed; it shows up in the feed of the players who follow you.
Improvements
- Social feed: on top of big pulls and listings, it now shows fusions, completed collections, new public binders and comments from the players you follow.
- Social feed: buttons above the feed to show only one kind of activity (pulls, listings, fusions, collections, binders, comments).
- Received, sent and past trades: the estimated value of each side (cards at their current price, plus Shards).
- Social page: pin your favorite players to keep them at the top; all your follows are in a list, with a search.
Daily quests, binders and your suggestions
New
- Daily quests: every day, 3 quests (open packs, place a bid, like a binder, play VG Quiz…) that earn Shards, and a Rare pack for finishing them all. On the Packs page, next to the drop rates.
- Binders: likes and comments under the pages of other players' public binders. You're notified when someone comments on one of your binders or it reaches a like milestone, and you can remove any comment on them.
Improvements
- Binders: reframe the cover image (move, zoom) from “Cover image”.
- Blocking a player also stops their messages and trade offers: it now says so when you block. Your blocked players are listed in your settings, with “Unblock”.
- Index: pinned collections follow the chosen sort and filters, completed ones first, are shown in pages like the others, and an “Unpin completed” button removes them all at once.
- Contact the team: a reminder to send one idea (or one bug) per message, so each one is tracked separately.
Bug fixes
- Auctions on phones: in “My sales” and “My bids”, finished sales no longer overflow the screen (the status and price were cut off).
Rules and balance
- Daily streak: the Ultra pack now comes every 30 days in a row (instead of 50), in place of the Super Rare pack.