The bargain

Same door, fair draw — the promise to collectors is permanent. Everything else here — pages, timing, specifics — is still being shaped.

Impartial Draw
Coming soon — Cut 001Doors not yet open

A fair door
to official card
releases.

Impartial Draw is a fair table between collectors and the official trading-card supply chain. A pledge is a free interest check — no card, no ID, no obligation. Mark the releases you'd buy at MSRP. When we open a release for draw, we write to the pledge members for that release and ask them to verify identity through Stripe; the verified names are drawn fairly. Equal odds, one entry per verified person — no bot networks, no midnight queue, no head start.

Cut 001
An idea in the open — gauging the table

We're not open yet.
We're listening.

Impartial Draw is in stage one of threegathering pledges. Pledges are all that's live today; accounts come with the founder title raffle next, and the draw mechanic opens only once we're approved as a retailer. The whole arc is below.

StatusGathering interest
Pledges
15of ~2,000
To trigger the founder title raffle
CutCut 001 — the first
CategoryModern TCG
Retailer approvalPending
What's nextEnough interest to approach
The plan

From an idea to an impartial draw.

Impartial Draw runs in three stages, and we're at the first one. Pledges are live — that's all that's live. The founder title raffle and the distributor conversation come after. This isn't pretending to be the finished thing.

Express interest

Tell us you'd want this.

No account, no card, no ID. Just a name, an email, and the releases you'd want at MSRP. We'll use what you tell us to approach distributors, and we'll write back when there's news worth writing about.

Where we are

No accounts, no draws, no cuts — yet. We're gauging whether there are enough collectors who'd buy at MSRP through a fair draw to take the idea to distributors.

  • Leave a name and email, and the releases you'd want
  • We write when there's enough interest to approach a distributor
  • That's when accounts, verification, and the live draw open
  • Until then — nothing changes hands

The pledge form lives on its own page — clean, single-purpose, with a Cloudflare check on the way out.

Leave a pledge

By pledging you agree to our termsand confirm you're over 18. We won't share your details. No card on file, no obligation if Impartial Draw never makes it past this stage.

The why

Three broken doors, one fair one.

Bots scrape, lines camp, vending machines fail — the structural ways the current supply chain hands stock to the fastest hand, not the buyer who'd use it.

See the problem
How it works

Same door. Same shake. Drawn fairly.

One verified entry per person. A public seed nobody can know in advance. Equal odds, every release — and anyone can replay the math.

Read the system

Releases we'd love to bring to the table.

Examples · subject to availability
PremiumOfficial image unavailable
Pokémon Trading Card Game: Chaos Rising Elite Trainer BoxThe premium box — booster packs, a full-art promo card, dice and counters, energy cards, and card sleeves. A collector's introduction to a set.Chaos Rising · MSRP set by publisher
StandardOfficial image unavailable
Pokémon Trading Card Game: Chaos Rising Booster Bundle BoxSix booster packs in a single retail bundle. The at-launch volume buy for collectors and players who just want the cards.Chaos Rising · MSRP set by publisher
SleevedOfficial image unavailable
Pokémon Trading Card Game: Chaos Rising Sleeved Booster PackA single booster pack in a printed display sleeve. Usually carries a promo card or special-art treatment.Chaos Rising · MSRP set by publisher

Same door for everyone. The draw decides who buys.— The whole of the rules.