Title: "Everything you need to know about Fantasy Top: Merging Trading Cards and Degens"
Author: Francesco
Translated by: Luccy, BlockBeats
Editor's Note: With the approaching Blast TGE, its new game Fantasy Top (FT) has gradually attracted attention. FT cleverly integrates the social elements of Twitter with trading card games. Cryptocurrency researcher Francesco analyzed the basic gameplay, game mechanics, and comparison with other SocialFi applications, and introduced its impact in the game and real life, the calculation method of hero points, and game strategies. BlockBeats translated the original article as follows:
If you enjoyed opening ultimate team packs on FIFA as a child and are fascinated by cryptocurrency, then this article is for you. Now is the time to use your packs to trade skills and make a name for yourself on Twitter.
A new game has entered the market, called Fantasy Top (FT).
It seamlessly integrates the social features of Twitter with a trading card game, allowing users to purchase card packs, open them, and buy and sell cards to build their own decks.
FT has developed the concept of incentivizing KOLs and cryptocurrency celebrities to connect with retail users pioneered by Friend Tech, and further links the gameplay with the performance of your cards in real life.
How? Let's introduce FT step by step, explain how it works, and highlight its elements and exciting mechanics.
Introduction to Fantasy Top
FT is a card game based on Blast.
It can be conceptualized as a "social trading card game," combining elements of collecting and trading cards with strategic thinking:
- Trading/upgrading cards
- Planning the social activities of your favorite cryptocurrency influencers
The second point is particularly interesting because different influencers perform better at different times. For example, with the upcoming Blast TGE, the value of Pacman's card has soared as users expect an increase in his activities and engagement.
Cards are divided into four rarities, each with different multipliers:
- Common: Hero score multiplier x1
- Rare: Multiplier x1.5
- Epic: Multiplier x2
- Legendary: Multiplier x2.5
FT players can build their favorite character decks by purchasing card packs or buying cards on the market. All market transactions incur a 3% fee. Then, they can participate in FT tournaments and earn rewards.
Over 17,000 people registered to participate in the first major tournament, which is a bit crazy.
How does the game work?
Users can join the game by logging into their Twitter account. Once registered, a new blockchain-based Blast wallet will be created, which users can export at any time.
Since the FT testnet has been online for several months, early users can get free or discounted card packs. Travis (FT team) repeatedly mentioned their strategy of providing excessive rewards to early users.
Testnet participants can play the game and test features in advance, and receive additional FAN points and card packs upon official release. Once logged in, users must acquire some cards to participate in the game, which can be done in two ways:
- Purchase card packs
- Buy cards on the market
Once they have collected enough cards, users can choose their five-hero team, create their own deck, and register for the tournament. The ranking and position of users in the tournament depend on the overall score of their team, which is based on their activity on Twitter.
In fact, the main tournament is the best way to earn rewards and improve your deck. Rewards are distributed in the form of ETH, Blast Gold, FAN points, free card packs, etc. Users are divided into five different leagues and can advance to higher leagues by becoming one of the top players in the current league (or be relegated by ranking lower).
Talking about strategy
If you are familiar with these card games, there are two main strategies:
- Purchasing card packs
- Trading cards
Purchasing card packs is usually troublesome because the cards inside rarely offset the cost. The price of card packs is determined by an auction mechanism, as follows:
- Target price is 0.1 ETH
- Target released daily
Therefore, the price of card packs is dynamic, based on demand and supply. If card packs sell quickly, the price will rise, and vice versa. You may want to wait for a decrease in demand to get a better deal, but since its launch, the price of card packs has only increased.
If you have played FIFA's Ultimate Team, you know that card packs rarely provide an advantage. This is reflected in the behavior of top users, who are more inclined to trade cards and only open packs when given as tournament rewards.
However, users trading cards must be aware that as the number of participants increases, the weekly supply of forged cards also increases.
Users can click on each card to get more information about the card's inflation. The higher the number, the more cards have been forged.
Additionally, we can observe their statistics, income, and their "inner circle," i.e., the people they interact with most frequently.
However, the prices of heroes have also been soaring:
How are hero scores calculated?
The scores of heroes are calculated based on several parameters of their social engagement. Since these parameters are easily manipulated by engagement and bot operations, FT is implementing several mechanisms to mitigate these issues:
Anti-bot system to better identify interactions driven by bots
Distinguish between replies and main tweets
Reduce the differences between heroes to make the game fairer for everyone.
Heroes participating in FT will receive a portion of the following income:
- 1.5% transaction fee from their card trading volume
- 10% of card pack sales revenue, distributed evenly among heroes
- Free versions of their own cards
The visual effects of heroes' followers, rankings, and fan scores are very interesting:
This week, FT is expected to share over $1.25 million among heroes, with an average of 7500 FAN points and 2400 Blast Gold per hero.
The community has been speculating about the use of FAN points, and we will soon learn more.
Recommendations have introduced additional game elements: recommending a friend will bring you 11% of their FAN points + 3% of anyone they recommend.
How to upgrade card levels?
Cards can be upgraded, increasing their point values. Users must purchase and destroy 5 cards of the same hero to upgrade a card to the next level.
Card level 1:
Card level 1.5:
And so on…
Upgrading cards is crucial for achieving higher scores in your team. To do this, users must purchase and destroy 5 cards of the same hero. Upgraded cards have higher scores: if we observe the top-scoring teams, they all have upgraded teams.
Raising your hero's level may also result in changes in rankings, potentially elevating your hero by 1 or 2 levels higher than you thought. This opens up new strategies: with each card having its own supply, is it more convenient to buy and upgrade them? Or should you only purchase basic cards, anticipating supply shocks as more and more people upgrade their cards and need more basic cards?
Those who bought cards at the launch of FT have already made a lot of profit, as the demand for upgrading cards increased in the initial days. The teams of the current main tournament leaders are impressive, with all heroes already upgraded.
Competition in the rankings is becoming increasingly fierce…
And Eric's deck is quite impressive…
Further research
FT has already had an impact on heroes. If you see someone writing nonsense, they are just hyping their cards.
FT is also one of the Blast apps that has garnered the most Gold before its full launch, distributing over 750,000 Gold to its users. This ensures that the game rewards will be very generous. 80% of the airdrop from Fantasy Devs will be returned to FAN holders.
What's interesting about FT is that, compared to other SocialFi platforms (especially Friend Tech), it faces no resistance because it directly links to the Twitter accounts people already use, without the need to move to a new social network. This provides a perfect incentive mechanism for players and participating heroes. Imagine getting rewarded for going crazy on Twitter.
In the first week, FT has accumulated:
- Over 7,000 ETH in trading volume
- 33,000 users
- $3,400 ETH in funds
- 236 ETH in market fees
Observing the distribution of users is also interesting. Most are traders, and the number of "forgers" has recently increased (possibly due to the claiming deadline), then suddenly dropped.
How do we use this information? Initially, due to the airdrop, card inflation was quite severe: many users received discounted or even free packs and opened them in large numbers. This ended yesterday, along with the airdrop claiming, reflected in the decrease in pack purchases by over 90%.
How do you play the FT game?
More charts: Link
Finally, I would like to emphasize some "issues" about FT.
Like any other crypto SocialFi app, it relies heavily on influencers. However, compared to other platforms, it does so in a way that is completely consistent with their incentives, which I think mitigates this dependency. Secondly, it relies on logging in with a Twitter account. A friend of mine was just suspended from his account for no reason, so he can't log in to FT and claim his RIP rewards.
Nevertheless, FT has shown incredible PMF in the first week (even during the testnet). Can it sustain the initial hype? I believe the team will gradually roll out more features, including but not limited to new heroes and game dynamics.
FT is the most widely used app on Blast, and with the Blast TGE approaching, expected to end at the end of May, things may get even more interesting.
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