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Card rarities

Rarity is the letter code in the corner of a card. There is no industry standard: hundreds of markings exist, each series has its own, and comparing sets by their letters is pointless. Two things actually matter: the rarity order inside a given set, and the card type — main, bonus, extra, promo or redeem.

The letters say less than you would think

The same marking means different things in different series, so the meaning lives in the set, not in the letter.

Every series has its own rarities The database holds over eight hundred of them. Sets from different manufacturers do not compare letter to letter.
The set defines the order On the "About the set" tab rarities are listed in order, from the most common to the rarest. That is the scale for that particular set.
Look at the numbers Next to each rarity you see how many such cards the set has and how many drop from one box — more honest than any letter.
Filter by rarity A cardlist can be narrowed to one rarity, and the search accepts several separated by commas.

This is why "which rarity is higher" only makes sense within one set: there the order is explicit and visible in the table.

Main, bonus, extra, promo and redeem

The type answers whether a card belongs to the main cardlist and how it reaches a collector at all.

Main The core of a set: these are the cards counted when someone says "completing the set".
Bonus Cards from bonus packs and box inserts: tickets, metal cards, water-effect cards, badges.
Extra Cards with extremely low odds — collecting them all is often impossible, so they are not treated as required for a set. Progress has a mode that keeps standard rarities only.
Promo PR cards and their equivalents. They come bundled with a set or with several sets at once, are attached to albums and other merchandise, or handed out in promotions.
Redeem A redeem card is not for your collection: it is exchanged for a bonus too big to fit in the box — an album, an oversized card, jewellery, a premium card.

Rarity type is a search filter: keep only the main cardlist, or look at promos alone. See the search guide.

How rarity relates to price

There is no direct link: price comes from the print run and how wanted the character is, not from the letter.

Print run Some cards carry a print number. A rare run costs more than an ordinary card of the same rarity.
Character A sought-after character lifts the price within the same rarity, sometimes several times over.
The live market The final price comes from collector listings — see the prices guide.

Common questions

What do SSR or UR on a card mean?
It is a rarity marking invented by the set manufacturer. There is no single system: the same letters sit on different steps in different series, and over eight hundred markings exist in total. How rare a card is can only be judged within its set — the "About the set" table lists rarities in order with a card count each.
Which rarity is the highest?
The question only makes sense inside one set. The order is in the table on the "About the set" tab: the lower the row, the rarer the card.
What do I do with a redeem card?
Contact the seller you bought the set or pack from — they hand out the bonus. Mailing the card itself is usually not worth it, so the community settled on another practice: you cut the redeem card on video and send the recording to the seller. That way they can see it is spent and will not be used twice.
Which rarities count towards set progress?
By default: standard, bonus and extra rarities; promo and redeem are excluded. The "full box" mode adds promo, while "minimal" keeps standard rarities only — handy when extra cards with near-zero odds keep your progress from closing.

See the rarities in a set

In a cardlist, rarities are ordered and show how many cards each holds.

Set catalogue How prices work

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