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What TCG Miners is, what a card costs, what happens to it, and how you get your cards and money back out.

Mint→Reveal→Deck→Shifts→Cycle→Claim

We drew 5,050 pixel trading cards and taught them to mine. You mint a sealed card by burning $CARDS and paying a little ETH. After the reveal you bind cards into a deck, bond some $CARDS, and the deck works six-hour shifts across three ETH veins named after SPY, NVDA and SPCX. Each shift burns a little $CARDS. You claim the matching tokenised stock, one per vein.

The set #

5,050 cards. 5,040 of them mint in ten price steps; 10 one-of-ones are held by the treasury. 20 elements, 9 tiers, 0 to 6 stars, 1,260 designs in four editions. Element, design and edition are readable from the id on the day you mint. Tier and stars stay sealed until the table sells out or the reveal deadline passes, and then everyone opens at once.

$CARDS is the fuel. It launches on Pons with a fixed supply of 1 B. The mint burns it and the mine burns it.

What it costs #

Table 1.1 One card, first step and last

	Tranche 1	Tranche 10	Source
$CARDS, burned	20,000	39,980	MinersNFT.sol:224,233
ETH leg	$2.00	$2.00	MinersNFT.sol:236,245
Per wallet	No cap; up to 100 per call		MinersNFT.sol:48

The price moves every 500 cards and nobody can edit the table. Details on The mint and its ten tranches.

What happens to a card #

It sits sealed in your wallet. It can be sold, but not mined or merged.
After the reveal it shows its tier and stars. Two of a kind merge into one, a tier up.
Bound into a deck it is locked. The deck's weight is 2^(tier-1) times 1 plus 0.25 per star, per card, with a bonus for many designs of one element.
With shifts bought and $CARDS bonded, the deck earns 1/28 of each vein per cycle, by weight, and burns a cost worth 15% of that at claim. The bond has to cover the estimated cost before a shift is sold, and the claim pays each vein's share as that vein's tokenised stock.

What can go wrong #

You cannot mine before the reveal. The mine rejects decks until then.
A card in a deck cannot move until the deck's schedule ends and you claim and unbind.
A shift cannot be bought without bond to cover its estimated cost. If the estimate still runs short at claim, the deck is paid a fraction and retired. No bond, no payout.
Claim pays stock, not ETH. If a swap cannot be filled, the claim reverts and the rewards wait.
The ETH leg is frozen in wei at deploy, so the live figure comes from mintPrice(), not from a screenshot.

How you get out #

Stop buying shifts. When the schedule ends, claim. Then unbind. The cards unlock and the whole remaining bond comes back. Claim works even if the mine is paused.

Open before mainnet The allowlist, the mainnet reveal deadline and what happens to the ten one-of-ones are decisions still to be announced. Every page marks them. The veins are fed automatically: the keeper bot forwards the Pons creator fee on $CARDS trades into them on a schedule.

Read this if you are here to... mint: The mint and its ten tranches. Understand your card: Sealed cards, reveal and traits. Build a deck: Decks and weight. Keep it working: Shifts, bond and the cost of working. Get paid: Claiming. Check the team's reach: Where the money goes. Look anything up: Reference.