A detailed explanation of Blast's new social game Fantasy Top (with game guide)

Original title: “Everything you need to know about Fantasy Top: Merging Trading Cards and Degens”

Original author: Francesco

Original compilation: Luccy, BlockBeats

Editor’s note:
As Blast TGE approaches, its new game, Fantasy Top (FT), is gaining traction. FT cleverly blends Twitter’s social elements with card games, and encryption researcher Francesco analyzes FT’s basic gameplay, game mechanics, and comparisons with other SocialFi apps, and describes its impact within the game and in real life, how hero points are calculated, and game strategies. BlockBeats compiled the original text as follows:

If you loved opening the ultimate team pack on FIFA as a kid and were obsessed with Crypto Assets, then this article is for you. Now it’s time to use your pack-and-trade skills to make a difference on Twitter.

There is a new game that has entered the market called Fantasy Top (FT).

It seamlessly blends the social nature of Twitter with a card game where users can buy card packs, open card packs, and buy and sell cards to build their own decks.

FT developed the concept pioneered by Friend Tech to incentivize KOLs and Crypto Assets celebrities to connect with retail users, and even further linked gameplay to how your cards perform in real life.

How is it? Let’s take a step-by-step introduction to FT, 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” that combines elements of collecting and card trading with strategic thinking:

· Trade/upgrade cards

· Curate social events for your favorite Crypto Assets influencers

The second point is especially interesting because there will be different influencers who perform better in any given period. For example, with the Blast TGE on the horizon, Pacman’s card value has skyrocketed as users expect an increase in his activity and engagement.

Cards are divided into four rarities, with different multipliers:

· Uncommon: Multiplier x 1 for hero score

· Rare: Multiplier x 1.5

· Epic: Multiplier x 2

· Legendary: Multiplier x 2.5

FT players can build their favorite character decks by purchasing card packs or buying cards in the market. There is a 3% fee on all market transactions. They can then participate in FT tournaments and earn rewards.

There were 17, 000 longest people registered for the first major tournament, which was a bit crazy.

How does the game work?

Users can join the game by logging into their Twitter accounts. Once registered, a new Blockchain-based Blast Wallet will be created that 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) has repeatedly mentioned their strategy of offering excess rewards to early adopters.

Testnet participants can play games and test features in advance and earn additional FAN points and card packs at the official launch. Once logged in, users must acquire some cards in order to participate in the game in two ways:

· Purchase a card pack

· Buy cards in the market

Once they’ve collected enough cards, users can choose their own team of five heroes, create their own deck, and sign up for tournaments. A user’s position and position in the tournament is determined by their team’s combined score, which is based on their activity on Twitter.

In fact, major tournaments are the best way to get rewards and improve your deck. Rewards are distributed in the form of ETH, Blast Gold, FAN points, free card packs, and more. Users are divided into five different leagues and can advance to a higher league (or vice versa) by being one of the top-ranked players in the current division.

Talk about strategy

If you’re familiar with these card games, there are two main strategies:

· Purchase a card pack

· Trade Cards

Buying a card pack is often a hassle, as the cards inside rarely cover the cost. The price of the card pack is determined by the auction mechanism and is as follows:

· The price target is 0.1 ETH

· Targets posted daily

As a result, the price of card packs is dynamic, based on demand and supply. If the card pack sells quickly, the price will pump and vice versa. You may want to wait for demand to drop to get a better deal, but the price of packs has only increased since launch.

If you’ve played FIFA’s Ultimate Team, you know that card packs rarely have an advantage. This is reflected in the behavior of top users, who are more inclined to trade cards and only open packages when they are gifted as tournament rewards.

However, users who trade cards must be aware that as the number of participants increases, so does the supply of cards minted each week.

Users can get more long information about the card Inflation by clicking on each card. The higher the number, the longer number of cards minted.

In addition, we can look at their stats, income, and their “inner circle,” the people they interact with the most.

However, the price of heroes has also been soaring:

How is the Hero Score calculated?

The hero’s score is calculated based on several parameters of their social engagement. Since these parameters are susceptible to manipulation of engagement and manipulation by bots, FT is implementing several mechanisms to mitigate these issues:

· Anti-bot systems to better identify bot-driven interactions

· Distinguish between replies and main tweets

· Reduce the differences between heroes and make the game fairer for all

Heroes who participate in FT will receive a portion of the following earnings:

· 1.5% fee on their card volume

· 10% of the sales revenue from card packs is divided equally among heroes

· A free version of their own card

The visualization between the hero’s followers and rankings and fan ratings is very interesting:

This week, only FT is expected to share more than $1.25 million among heroes, an average of 7,500 FAN points per hero, and 2,400 Blast Gold.

The community is already speculating about what the FAN points will be used for, and we’ll learn more long soon.

Referrals introduce an extra element of gameplay: referring a fren will bring you 11% of their FAN points + 3% of anyone they refer.

How do I level up my cards?

Cards can be upgraded, and the number of points of the cards will increase. Users must purchase and destroy 5 cards of the same hero in order to upgrade one card to the next level.

Card Level 1 :

Card Level 1.5:

Leveling up cards is essential to get a higher score on your team. To do this, the user must purchase and destroy 5 cards of the same hero. Upgraded cards score higher: If we observe the team with the highest score, they both have an upgraded team.

Increasing your hero’s level can also lead to ranking changes, which can make your hero 1 or 2 levels higher than you thought they were. This opens up a new strategy: since each card has its own supply, is it more convenient to buy and upgrade them? Or should I just buy basic cards, anticipating supply shocks, as more and more long people upgrade their own cards and need more long basic cards?

Those who bought cards when FT launched have already made a lot of money, as the demand for upgrading cards increases in the first few days. The team of the current main tournament leaders is astounding, and all heroes have been upgraded.

The competition to get into the leaderboard is getting tougher…

And Eric has a pretty good deck…

Keep researching

FT already has an effect on heroes. If you see someone writing some gibberish, they’re just hyping their own cards.

FT is also one of the Blast apps that received the most long Gold before it was fully launched, having already distributed more than 750,000 Gold to its users. This ensures that the tournament rewards will be very generous. 80% of the Fantasy Devs Airdrop will be returned to FAN holders.

What’s interesting about FT is that it doesn’t have any resistance compared to other SocialFi platforms, especially Friend Tech, because it links directly to the Twitter accounts that people already use, without having to move to a new Social Web. This provides the perfect incentive for both the player and the participating heroes. Imagine going crazy on Twitter and still getting paid.

In the first week, FT has accumulated:

· More than 7,000 ETH of volume

· 33,000 users

· 3,400 ETH in funding

· 236 ETH market fees

It’s also interesting to observe the distribution of users. Longest are traders, and recently the number of “minting” has increased (probably due to the claim deadline) and then suddenly dropped.

How do we use this information? Initially, card inflation was quite severe due to Airdrops: longest users received discounted or even free packages and opened them in large numbers. This ended yesterday, with Airdrop Claim, reflected in the purchase of packages, which dropped by more than 90%.

How do you play the FT game?

Longest charts:links

Finally, I’d like to highlight some “issues” about FT.

Like any other encryption SocialFi app, it relies heavily on influencers. However, compared to other platforms, it does this in a way that is completely aligned with their incentives, which, I think, alleviates that dependency. Second, it relies on having a Twitter account to log in. A fren of mine just had his account suspended for no reason, so he couldn’t log in to FT and claim his RIP rewards.

Nevertheless, FT has already demonstrated incredible PMF in the first week (and even during the testnet). Will it be able to sustain the initial hype? I am confident that the team will gradually roll out more long features, including but not limited to new heroes and game updates.

FT is the most widely used application on Blast, and things are likely to get even more interesting as the Blast TGE approaches, which is expected to end at the end of May.

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