Cards play a secondary role in TCG Card Shop Simulator, where one can collect or sell the ones they get from a pack.
Overview
To receive cards, one has to open a single card pack sold via packs in Stock Order. There are currently 3 card collections (Tetramon, Destiny, and Ghost) with the first two collections having four buyable rarities:
- Basic (blue packs, will have the "Common" tag in the album)
- Rare (yellow/gold packs, will have the "Rare" tag in the album)
- Epic (purple/pink packs)
- Legendary (red packs)
Note that Ghost is not a pack onto itself but has a very rare chance of spawning in any pack of the other 2 collections.
Edition types
On top of the rarity packs, cards are further divided based on their individual edition and if foil or non-foil. The following editions exist:
- Normal: No special text or coloration, these are the most common.
- 1st Edition: says "1st Edition" under the image and has a white border.
- Silver Edition: say "Silver Edition" under the image and has a silver border.
- Gold Edition: says "Gold Edition" under the image and has a gold border.
- EX: says "EX" under the image and has a gold/yellow border.
- Full Art: As the name implies, the whole card is of the character in question, rather than just a small box in the top half of the card.
- Ghost: Will look like a mostly black or white card with little coloration and are considered the highest value cards in game (upwards of around 10k).
Both non-foil and foil can be any of the above, though foil will have an additional foil sheen on the card, including the ghost card (which has an additional achievement for obtaining one in game).
Not counting Ghost cards, this means each particular character card for a given rarity (such as "Common") has 12 different versions to collect.
Probability of Each Card Rarity
- Full Art: 1/400 (0.25%)
- EX: 1/100 (1%)
- Gold: 1/25 (4%)
- Silver: 1/12.5 (8%)
- First Edition: 1/5 (20%)
- Any Foil: 1/20 (5%)
(For each rarity, getting a foil is a 1/20 on top of it. For example, a Full Art Foil is a 1/400 to get a Full Art and then a 1/20 for that Full Art to be a Foil, giving a 1/8,000 or 0.0125% chance)
Ghost Cards
For Ghost cards, there are 20 character cards that have 4 different Ghost variants, making for 80 unique ghost cards. Each Ghost card has the following:
- Two white ghost cards (foil and non-foil)
- Two black ghost cards (foil and non-foil)
A ghost card will always be the 7th card of a pack. The chances of getting a ghost card varies depending on which type of pack expansion type you are opening:
- If you're opening a Tetramon pack, it's a 1/1,000 chance (0.1%) for it to be a Ghost Pack.
- If you're opening a Destiny pack, it's a 1/500 chance (0.2%) for it to be a Ghost Pack. The rarity of the pack (i,e Basic, Rare, Epic, or Legendary) has no effect on the chances of the pack being a Ghost Pack.
Foil variants of Ghost cards are the rarest and most valuable cards available in the game. Obtaining a Foil Ghost Card will unlock the achievement titled "Lucky Bastard"
- If you're opening a Tetramon pack, it's a 1/20,000 (0.005%) chance for it to be a Ghost Foil Pack.
- If you're opening a Destiny pack, it's a 1/10,000 (0.01%) chance for it to be a Ghost Foil Pack.
Collecting
There are currently 1,320 cards for the two main collections (Tetramon and Destiny) and 80 Ghost cards. Note that for the Tetramon and Destiny sets, each edition, for both non-foil and foil, have separate numbers, so the same character card (for example, Nocti) will have 12 different numbers to cover all variants. This means there are 110 total unique character cards with 12 different cards for each.
Currently both the Tetramon and Destiny collections are nearly identical: other than being in different packs with different card backgrounds, everything else (character art, numbers, and stats) remain the same. As such, the list here doesn't note specific expansions as a card in question can be found in its related rarity pack for each expansion.
The following table shows roughly how many different card rarities you'll get on average out of 10,000 cards and their respective percentage (both rounded to 2 decimal places):
| Card Rarity | Number of Cards out of 10k | % Per Card |
|---|---|---|
| Full Art | 23.75 | 0.24% |
| Full Art Foil | 1.25 | 0.01% |
| Ex | 94.76 | 0.95% |
| Ex Foil | 4.99 | 0.05% |
| Gold | 375.26 | 3.75% |
| Gold Foil | 19.75 | 0.20% |
| Silver | 720.50 | 7.21% |
| Silver Foil | 37.92 | 0.38% |
| First Edition | 1,657.14 | 16.57% |
| First Edition Foil | 87.22 | 0.87% |
| Base | 6,628.59 | 66.29% |
| Base Foil | 348.87 | 3.48% |