Topic: [ANN/INFO] CARDSMITHS - CURRENCY SERIES 1 TRADING CARDS - page 58. (Read 23849 times)

I would perhaps be interested in an EU group buy if anything is in the works, shipping is putting me off buying individually

So, the Welcome To Mars card....is that the 28 card that no one can seem to find?

   I like it. Maybe the copper card for base, silver for holofoil,  and gold card for CS set. If you have all three card you can send them in for one diamond card. But it would have to be a pretty awesome card, lol.

Hopefully there is a heap of 1A cards still in unopened boxes, there should have been a close to even amount of all base cards printed.

I was thinking that maybe Cardsmiths could offer a few different “redemption” type rewards. For example you could get something for sending in a complete CS meta-rare set (since they were a mistake to begin with)
And offer something awesome if anyone wants to trade in a complete base set, including all the MR holofoils and the 2 CF cards.
There could be a reward for a holofoil set and a slightly better reward for a crystal sparkle base card sets (62 cards)

I strongly agree. I have multiple base card sets that aren't complete because of 1A so I'm kind of stuck.  I've pulled the same amount of base 1A cards as Meta rare gemstone refractors (2) 1A base seems ultra rare

Ive been thinking about this base card redemption promo and have a thought. I have opened a bunch of boxes and have come to the conclusion that certain base cards are definitely more scarce than others. For instance i have plenty of 1s and 28As but cant find a 1A or 28 to save my life. There are many cards i have about 10 of. Why send a full base set in and make the scarce cards even more scarce. Why not allow  people to send in 62 cards of any number? Unless these scarce cards are still locked up in later cases? Can Jupiter confirm that the same number was produced for each card. If not i think sending in random cards would be better. People would send the ones they had the most of in turn making them more rare. Just a thought

I'm looking to buy the following base cards if anyone has extra to sell, please pm me price.

1A   Bitcoin (wtb 6)
29   Gold (wtb 4)
31   Platinum (wtb 2)
34   The Bank (wtb 1)
45   Bitcoin  (wtb 1)
46   Ethereum (wtb 1)
48    Red Pill (wtb 1)
49   Bag Holders  (wtb 2)
51   Bitcoin  (wtb 1)
55   MMT (wtb 4)
60   Bitcoin (wtb 1)

Many collectors have also put away at least one sealed box, so those high-value redemptions could be locked away for a long while. I hope there is some way they might still be redeemable ten, twenty, or even thirty+ years from now... The value of sealed boxes in the long-term could depend on that.

I have a 1 LTC redemption and a .01 BTC redemption

For legal reasons we've been asked not to disclose specifics with respect to redemptions.  That said, I think it is fair to say that there are many "very" good redemption rewards still waiting to be found.  

Glad this seller recognizes that a complete set is actually 62 cards.  Some folks haven't made that connection yet.  Will be critical for the "buyback" promo.

If anyone is looking for a reasonably priced base set, this seller on ebay has a few.
I have bought from them before and are decent
Regular retail price for a set with shipping is about $200

https://www.ebay.com/itm/266080960690

This is a great idea, because not only will it increase the rarity of those cards for true collectors, but it will greatly increase visibility of this project among the regular non-crypto-nerd population. If we want the cards to eventually hold a lot of value like old original Garbage Pail Kids cards, we need the public to be aware of the project as much as possible. Also consider putting them in geo-cache prize boxes, because those prizes are fun to find and they get traded around a lot.

This sounds like Cardsmiths philanthropy  A few of these posts have activated my almonds. I easily have 400-500 extra base cards, my thought is similar to the above posts but with a minor spin. Once a week, I'm going to place a card somewhere... anywhere... My first thought was to take card #9 Bitcoin Crunch and put it somewhere in my local grocery store's cereal isle. Or for instance take #47 Whitepaper and place it in a library. Or #23 Lambo and hide it inside a showroom car at a dealership... The ideas are endless. And if I only do this once a week, it will end up being years and years of Cardsmiths easter eggs placed around my state. You never know who will find them, and the rabbit hole it may take them down. I may even take pictures and post them to the thread of my placement every now and again.

Did anyone so far redeem any full bitcoin yet out of packs? Really curious! Thanks

Personally speaking, I'm not too fond of the idea of cards getting burned.

I would suggest the usage of a hole puncher to put a hole in each card, and then return all the "cancelled" cards back to the sender among with the "throphy".

Non cancelled cards supply will be reduced (scarcity) and the customer will be able to hodl the physical cards as a redemption souvenir.

That way, it will act as an added reward for those who have managed to gather a complete set (hole is necessary to avoid "double redemption" issues) rather than a subtract "punishment"  (having to turn over the whole set in exchange of)

You could even use a custom-made "cardsmiths logo" hole shape puncher, which IMO sounds cool (to have a cardsmiths logo shape hole on the card)

just my 2 satoshis...

  I dont hate this idea. How bout putting a card inside one book to be found when checked out. One card inside one book. Like a buried treasure

> donate them to their children's play area

I think this would actually be a really cool way to "burn" the base sets that people turn in for the special cards, and it would be interesting to see how many of those old cards given to children show back up over the years, maybe they could be given an extra stamp to identify them, and a good lamination.

It would just be base sets of cards.  Any holofoils, variants, CS, Gemstone, MR would not be part of this.  Fear not!  :-)

Timelord - I agree with you that destroying things can be counterproductive and harmful in many ways. However, I think we are talking about apples and oranges here.
Destroying the Mona Lisa? Thats a one of a kind, priceless piece of art history. Of course a photo is not the same.
I have multiple full base sets of these Cardsmiths Currency cards and I know others do as well, so not quite the same as a single rare painting.

I will be doing exactly what you suggest . . . and more.
I will keep unopened boxes/packs.
I will keep full sets protected. (I'll even do exactly as you say, seal some up until 2035 AND 20 years from now).
I will burn full sets and keep the redemption reward protected.

I agree with you that if there was only ONE set of base cards, destroying it would be criminal. But the truth is there are thousands of these base cards and by burning a small percent of them the remaining cards become more valuable.

I think a better analogy is Bitcoin. Think of it like the several million bitcoin lost to missing keys, boating accidents, and burner addresses. People don't seem to mind that their BTC has more value because the supply is now less than 21M. Do I hate to see those BTC gone, sure. But there are many still left (like base sets) and they are now more prized. Furthermore we always say "you get bitcoin at the price you deserve". Simply put, early entry has higher risk. Same thing here. You buy cards now, you take a risk they aren't worth anything later, but maybe they will be. I liken it to early OG collectors who "burned" some of their Bitcoin for now treasured tokens like a Casascius coin (I get that the BTC was not actually burned for this). Cas coins are no longer made, harder to get now, but still available for a price (like a card burn prize). What's more valuable, the Cas coin or the BTC; the burn prize or the base set? I know it's not a perfect analogy, but simply an attempt to show how I think about this dilemma/opportunity.

We can agree to disagree, no hard feelings, but honestly I am glad that there may be an option for my extra base cards that could have value or be more rare than an actual base set in the future.

Geo