What are Card Rips? The New Way to Trade Collectibles Explained
Card rips are a new form of digital pack opening in which users can reveal physical trading cards and choose to sell, store or have them shipped to them. They are attracting serious interest among sweepstakes players. Currently, most card rip sites are separate from online casinos. However, some sweepstakes sites have foreseen the potential popularity of this form of this type of product and are offering their users the opportunity to try it.
Crown Coins has been one of the first operators to adopt card rips, launching a test version earlier this year. It is now available for general use, and there is even a dedicated Crown Rips app to make the process more streamlined.
How do you use card rips?
Card rips are done in a straightforward manner that is easy to understand. You purchase a digital trading card pack for a set price. At Crown Coins, the pack is bundled with qualifying Crown Coins purchases. Then, you ‘rip’ it open via an animation that occurs live on your screen.
The value of the card is then revealed. This can vary substantially from the price paid, which gives card rips a chance-based mechanic, similar to loot boxes. You then have the option to store the card digitally, have the physical card sent to you by post, or sell it back to the operator for its stated fair-market value.
The difference between card rips and loot boxes is that you get the option of holding your card in a digital vault or receiving a physical card such as Pokémon and sports trading cards.
What kinds of cards can you get?
There is a wide variety of cards associated with card rips. You can get ones related to sports such as basketball, baseball and football. There are also Pokémon, anime cards and ones that that relate to different types of popular culture. Crown Rips are focused on sports and Pokémon currently.
So how do card rips work?
The card received is determined randomly. For example, you might pay $100 and receive a card worth $40. Alternatively, you could receive a card worth a few hundred dollars. The fact that the outcome is random and that the cards have a variety of different values means that card rips have a random-reward element. This is because the card received can have a substantially different value from the amount paid.
Being able to sell the cards back straight away has made the concept of great interest to collectors, casino operators and iGamers.
Can you get card rips at online casinos?
In many cases, card rips are only available on sites that have been created specifically for that purpose. These sites are independent of online casinos. However, sweepstakes casinos are currently trying out the concept of card rips.
Crown Coins’ Crown Rips is one of the first prominent card rip products introduced by a sweepstakes casino. The feature is tied to qualifying Crown Coins purchases, giving players access to a digital pack containing a randomly selected physical trading card. When the card is revealed, it can then be sold back, stored in a digital vault or delivered to the user as a physical card. MyPrize.us is another site that has launched a similar product in recent months with the release of Yu-Gi-Oh.
☑️ Editor’s Take
Card rips are certainly a hugely interesting emerging concept that could be appealing for trading card collectors and fans of casino games alike.
The concept is currently in its early stages, but it has seen plenty of early interest, not least with Crown Rips. I predict that this — in some form — will be able at tens of more sites in the next few months.
Image credit: CrownRips.com
Before participating, make sure card rips are legal where you live and that you meet the applicable age requirement.
Ben is the Lead Editor at Win.gg, bringing a decade of iGaming industry experience having worked for both the operator and affiliation sides. With a formal journalism background, he is responsible for ensuring that every piece of content that we publish is relevant, accurate and well-written. In his own time, he enjoys playing video games and especially enjoys Rockstar titles, considering Red Dead Redemption 2 the finest title ever made. He has also spent a lot of time playing GTA V over the years and is fascinated by how streaming is changing the landscape of the industry.
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