Why Invest in a Crypto Trading Card Game?

An article why a digital blockchain trading card game will capture the world heart.

One of my favorite types of games is the Trading Card Genre. Few feelings can beat the excitement of opening a new random base/founders pack and seeing what is inside. True, most of the cards will probably end up stacked in your wallet, but one card can make it all worth it. Usually that card will be powerful, sometimes shiny, and most important of all, RARE!

History of the Traditional Trading Card Game and how it has Evolved.

The idea of rarity in trading cards goes back over a hundred years, and originated in collectible baseball cards. Some cards were made to be much more difficult to find than others, and therefore much more desirable and valuable on the secondary market. Because of this long history, rarity must have seemed like an obvious element to include in Magic: The Gathering, the first trading card game and now in Shiryo!

The role of rarity in trading card games is much different than it’s role in regular trading cards, however. Instead of simply being more valuable, these cards were often more powerful in the game than their more common counterparts. This added an additional form of value to these cards, and helped to create a booming secondary market for buying and selling rare trading cards.

In other words in Shiryo's card packs, not only are the rarest trading cards going to be highest valued but also the more powerful and useful cards in the game. This will give you more cards to look out for and sell for a good profit on the secondary market to the avid trading card players keen to have the most powerful cards in their set not just the rarest.

A Card’s Price on the Secondary Market is Generally Determined by two Different Factors :

The card’s power and desirability

The card’s rarity

The more desirable and rare a card is, the more expensive it becomes, this is why minting and staking for Shiryo cards will be key to creating a passive income in the future. The more you stake, the more cards you will receive. The more cards you receive the higher chance you have of finding a rare card which you can sell on the secondary market.

Common vs Rare Cards

There is a common belief that rarity is directly connected to power – the less common a card is, the better it is. While there may be some truth to this, designing for rarity is about much more than simply putting the good cards in rare.

While rare cards can often be considered the “face” of the set, it is really the commons that determine what a set is about. Common cards are the cards that players are going to see the most, so they have to do most of the heavy lifting in explaining the flavor, story and mechanical themes of the set.

Common cards also play a huge role in introducing a new player to the game. While a more experienced player might hand pick their deck full of powerful and expensive rare cards, most of the cards a new player encounters will be common. Because of this, common cards tend to be simpler to read and understand than other rarities.

Finally, common cards provide the foundation for limited play. Most cards in a pack will be common, so they should be the types of cards that work well in a limited environment. That means that they should work well with the other cards in the set without requiring too much support, and in general should be able to stand on their own. They should be able to fit in a variety of different types of decks, but they tend not to determine the structure of the deck.

Rare cards, on the other hand, have much different constraints. Rares can be the kinds of cards that would be problematic in limited play, either because they are too powerful in that type of environment or because they require a significant amount of deck-building support. Rare cards should be exciting to open, and should strongly pull a player’s deck in a certain direction. Rare cards play a much bigger role in Constructed (pre-built) decks than limited ones, and for this reason they can be much more complicated and niche than commons.

NFT as a Trading Card

This idea is simply genius! You have some other projects NFT's and they are basically a photo and that's pretty much it!

However with the Shiryo cards not only are they giving you an amazing piece of art but also an NFT with UTILITY! You can actually use your NFT to battle players around the world, and the beauty is that it's totally random which NFT card you will receive in the Shiryo packs of cards!

The NFT market has only just begun, even if you didn't want to play using your ultra rare mythic card you've just found after opening your pack, you can showcase this card with its beautiful art and be excited that you've got an NFT which many people will be looking to obtain!

Summary

At the end of the day Trading Card Games have been around for a very long time and won't be going away. Fast forward to the crypto revolution, Shiryo is now looking to continue that magic for us all on the blockchain by giving us the same experiences as we did when we were kids. The beauty is we can now make money whilst doing what we enjoy with the Play to Earn aspect and it has never been easier.

The Shiryo Swap market place will be a place to showcase your cards and sell them to the highest bidder, where across the way in the Shiryoverse you will be able to enter online tournaments battling people from around the world and winning prizes for doing so!

Opening your card packs has never been so exciting chasing the most powerful and rarest cards! Trying to complete the full set has never been so satisfying!

Shiryo like other traditional trading card games has a mammoth market and we haven't had a good trading card released for a while, especially as an NFT project. This project will attract investors and trading card game players alike searching for the rare cards to complete their deck or simply to sell on the secondary market. This will creates it's own economy which will lead to further adoption and thus increasing the value of the project.