Hello my lovely Voiders! We’ve got a fun update for you all–something we hope will encourage more site activity by providing a fun little incentive.

Introducing…

EnterVOID Collectable Cards!

That’s right, you can now collect virtual cards featuring the characters of Void through engaging with the site! There’s Standard cards and special Full Art cards, each coming in a variety of rarities–basic, holographic, foil, and starburst.

Examples of a Standard and a Full Art card of the Basic rarity. The stats on the cards include the number of wins the character has earned, number of comics featuring that character, and the character’s bio blurb.

Cards will use a character's Hype Image for the card art. If a character doesn't have a Hype Image, the card will use the character's icon instead.

Clicking on the card will flip it over so you can see the back! And for the rarer cards, hovering over the card will show the shiny effects.

How are cards earned?

Cards can be earned by uploading comics, participating in battles, and even occasionally by commenting or voting on comics! Submitting comics results in a guaranteed card drop, with certain factors increasing the likelihood of getting a rarer card. The factors that increase the odds of a rare card pull are:

-Winning a battle

-Having Cameos

-Participating in special match types (Scar, Double Scar, Death, and Annihilation)

-Participating in Tournaments

These modifiers do stack, so winning a battle with some cameos will increase the odds of a rare card more than simply winning. Also, Winning a Tournament will guarantee a non-Basic rarity card.

There are no modifiers for receiving a card from commenting or voting, and only one comment per match will be counted. So commenting multiple times on one comic/battle will not result in multiple chances for a card pull.

What are cards used for?

The EnterVOID Collectable Cards are purely just for fun! They’re purely for collection purposes, and cannot be transferred or traded.

How does the site determine what character card to give?

First things first, users cannot receive duplicate cards. You can receive multiple rarities for the same character, but not the exact same card twice. For example, you could get a TL Bot card in Basic, Holographic, Foil, and Starburst rarities, but you cannot get two Basic TL Bot cards. While we want this to be a fun collection system, we don’t want people to get discouraged by getting five of the same card!

With that out of the way, when pulling cards, the site will first determine the rarity of the card you receive, and then pick a character that you don’t already have a card of that rarity for. The site will first attempt to pull from any of the characters directly involved in the comic/battle; if you already have a card of that rarity for that character, it will then pull from any cameoed characters, then from any of the involved artists’ other characters, then from one of the top 100 Most Wanted characters.

So, for example, say PlatinumArtist is fighting Red in a Darren vs TL Bot battle. Plat decides to cameo Badger’s Talon in his comic, and includes Talon in the cameo list. When Plat submits his comic, the site’s RNG gives him a Basic rarity card. It then checks whether or not he already has a Basic rarity card of Darren or TL Bot.

If he doesn’t already have a Basic Darren or Basic TL Bot, he would receive that card. However, since he already has both of those, it then goes to the next pool–in this case, a Basic Talon, since he was cameoed.

If Plat already had a Basic Talon, though, the site would then go to the next bucket, pulling from one of Red’s other characters, such as Somadis.

And finally, if Plat already had a Basic card of all of Red’s other characters, the site would then go to the final pool of characters, randomly selecting from the top 100 Most Wanted characters.

How are Full Art cards earned?

Full Art cards are special cards that will be given out for special events and tournaments, such as Armageddon, Election Royale, and Heavyweight, among others! Not every tournament will reward a Full Art card, though, so be on the lookout for Full Art cards listed in the tournament’s rewards.

They can also be earned by participating in Collab comics! Any collaborative comic that is uploaded will give out a Full Art card of random rarity.

FAQ

Q: Will you be adding (insert feature here) in the future?

A: There are opportunities to add more to the Collectable Cards in the future, but for right now we are focusing on releasing and distributing the cards and letting people build their collections. One feature we're already looking at implementing is card-related Achievements!

Q: When will card rewards for battles be awarded?

A: Cards received for comics/battles will be awarded after voting is done! This is so the site knows whether or not to apply the win modifier to the card pull.

Credit

None of this would be possible without Hoopy, who as always is the workhorse (workcat?) behind some truly impressive coding! And a shoutout to simey (Simon Goellner) for creating the open-source code upon which the cards were inspired by: https://poke-holo.simey.me/

Thanks to Badger for doing the announcement art,

PlatinumArtist for designing the Standard card back, with contributions from Petrichor,

Red for designing the Full Art card back,

And all of Staff for coming together to workshop, brainstorm, and hash out details.

We hope to do more fun things with the cards in the future, but for now we hope you have fun building your collections!