Trading Up TCG

Start with $100 and try to collect all 250 Sprytes before going broke.

Trading Up TCG is a collecting-and-economy game built around the best part of trading cards: tearing open a fresh pack and turning it over one card at a time.

Buy a pack, rip it, and find out what you got. Six cards - three commons, two uncommons, and a rare or an ultra rare - with a 1% shot at a shimmering foil on any of them. New pulls go straight into your binder. Extras become cash, at the shop's price rather than yours.

THE LOOP

• Rip packs. Every pack opens card by card, and the hit slot is always saved for last.
• Sell your extras. The shop buys duplicates back at 65% of market value, and that spread is what may bankrupt you.
• Grade your best. Pay a fee, roll a PSA score. A 10 is a 5x payday and a 1 is a freak 10x jackpot, but anything from 2 to 7 is worth less than the card you put in.
• Cash in bonuses. Complete an evolution line for a payout; complete a whole set for a much bigger one.
• Chase booster boxes. Twelve packs with guaranteed ultras and foils, priced so you buy them for the chase and not for the discount.

FIVE SETS, 250 CARDS

Emberfall, Tidecaller, Verdspire, Voltcrest and Umbral Reach - the world of the Sprytes. Every creature is original, with its own art, flavor text, rarity and evolution line. Later sets cost steeply more and hold far more valuable cards, and each one unlocks as your collection grows.

WIN OR GO BROKE

Collect all 250 cards and you're a Master Collector. Fall below the price of the cheapest pack with no duplicates left to sell and you're tapped out. Between those two ends is a real economy - pack odds, a buylist spread, grading variance and set bonuses - that you can actually play against instead of just watching.

NO CATCHES

• No ads.
• No account, no sign-in, no internet connection required.
• No data collected. Your collection lives on your device and nowhere else.
• Plays entirely offline, on both iPhone and iPad.

Rip the first pack and see where $100 gets you.