1. Overview design preview
The loop: open packs → collect cards → complete binders and sets → build decks → battle other players → climb ranked → flex rare pulls and full binders. An equal blend of collecting, deck-building, and competition.
Read before you rip
Collector's Guide
A walkthrough of the systems BinderBot is being built around. This is a design preview, not live documentation: commands, numbers, and even the bot's name can change before launch.
In development. BinderBot is not invitable yet. This guide describes the design in the repo's DESIGN.md so future collectors know what they are signing up for.
2. The Cards a mix
- Crossover / meta cards: the SpartanBots themselves, devs, mods, and community in-jokes as rare "legend" pulls.
- Creatures from the games: fish (TackleBot), eggs and pets (AestherBot), bugs (TerraBot), ducks (PondBot) reimagined as cards, cross-promoting the whole ecosystem.
- Original characters: new heroes, spells, and items designed just for the TCG.
Rarity & variants
The shared ladder (⬜ Common · 🟢 Uncommon · 🔵 Rare · 🟣 Ultra · 🟠 Epic · 🟡 Legendary · 💎 Mythic) plus a parallel variant axis: normal → foil/holo → full-art → 1-of-N serialized. The variant axis is the long-term chase.
3. Packs, Sets & Pity core loop
- Packs are buyable with soft currency (earned through play) and Drachmas (premium stock and cosmetic-leaning packs).
- Themed sets with their own pull tables; rotating featured packs.
- Pity and dupe protection consistent with the ecosystem: no infinite bad luck. The website demo's "slot five is always Rare+" is the simplest version of this idea.
4. Binders & Collection collection book
Binders are collection books per set. Completion grants rewards, badges, and cosmetics (sleeves, binder backs). A showcase page lets you pin your proudest pulls to your profile.
5. Deck Building & PvP depth WIP
Deck-based battles using card stats, types, and a small set of effects. The proposal is light-tactical: deeper than a coin-flip auto-battler, far lighter than a full rules engine, and designed to grow season by season.
- Ranked ladder: Rookie → Champion 👑 with seasonal resets and rewards.
- Casual friendlies for testing decks without rating anxiety.
- Multiple saved decks in the deck builder.
6. Trading & Market in design
Player-to-player trades with anti-abuse rails (confirmations, cooldowns, audit trail), plus a rotating singles market. Serialized cards are tradeable, which is most of the fun and all of the drama.
7. Economy no pay-to-win
- Soft currency (name in progress: Foil? Ink? Credits?) earned through play; everything playable is earnable.
- Drachmas, the shared SpartanBots premium currency, buy cosmetic foils, sleeves, extra pack slots, and convenience. Power stays earnable, always.
- One Patreon covers perks across all SpartanBots (a bonus weekly pack is the kind of perk under discussion).
8. The Tycoon Dream expansion
The long-term expansion: run your own card shop business. Stock it, price it, sell to NPCs and players, print and design limited sets, and manage a collection empire on top of the collecting and battling core. After launch, not before.
Questions, ideas, or the urge to alpha test? Join the SpartanBots support server.