Rarities
Rarity is ANIMINT's core language. Every card sits on a five-tier ladder, with two special classes — time-limited Limited drops and community-made Creator cards — ranking above the standard top tier, and Primordial sitting above all of it as the hand-placed apex.
The rarity ladder
| Tier | Feel | How you get it | Sell value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Common | The backbone of every collection | Frequent expedition finds | 100 berries |
| Rare | A welcome step up | Expeditions, forging | 500 berries |
| Epic | Genuinely exciting | Better gear, forging | 1,000 berries |
| Creator (2D) | Community-made art | Rare expedition & manual finds (Pro only) | 5,000 berries |
| Creator (3D) | Community-made model | Rarer still — same finds, lower odds (Pro only) | 50,000 berries |
| Mythic | Holographic and prestigious | Rare finds, or a costly forge | 15,000 berries |
| Legendary | The top of the hunted ladder | Rarer finds still, or an even costlier forge | 25,000 berries |
| Limited | Time-boxed, supply-capped | Expeditions & manual hunts during a drop window | 75,000 berries — Sellable |
| Primordial | The apex tier — outranks everything, including Creator | Hand-placed only — #1 season finish or Premium Season Pass | 250,000 berries |
Rarity is three layers, never just colour
A tier is signalled three ways at once, so it reads even for colour-blind players or at a glance:
- ▸Frame & border colour identify the tier instantly.
- ▸Glow intensity scales with rarity on hover and at reveal.
- ▸Reveal motion gets richer the rarer the card — Mythic and Creator get the biggest burst.
Limited — time-boxed drops
Limited cards are special, supply-capped mints that only appear during a drop window, from both idle expeditions and active manual hunting. They wear a distinct cyan frame. At 0.001% per card they're the single rarest tier a player can actually hunt for — rarer than Creator 3D, Legendary or Mythic — and priced to match at 75,000 berries, the most valuable tier below hand-placed Primordial. Once a drop's supply is minted, that's it.
Creator — the premium class
Creator cards are submitted by Animint Pro members and approved by moderators — either animated pixel art or a full 3D model, creator's choice. They always carry a gold frame and a Creator badge, and they enter the same Collection and rarity system as official art. Chapter 12 covers how they're made.
Access, not odds, is what makes Creator a chase tier — both categories are entirely locked out of the drop pool for non-subscribers, full stop. Among Pro members, 2D (0.50% per card) is actually easier to land than Legendary or Mythic; 3D (0.01%) is the true chase, rarer than Legendary and closing in on Limited. No pity or guarantee backstops either — every card is a fully independent roll. On value: 2D sells for less than Mythic and Legendary, and 3D outsells both — but Limited (75,000) now outprices even 3D, since it's the rarer find of the two.
Primordial — the apex tier
Primordial outranks everything in the game, including Creator and Limited — a pale, iridescent frame that reads as 'beyond gold' rather than a richer version of it. It's the single highest-value tier by a wide margin, can never be forged, and Manual Hunt can never roll it. The one exception: idle expeditions get an extremely small, Relay-gated per-item chance (see Chapter 5) — everything else about it is unchanged, awarded through the Season Pass premium track or a #1 season finish.
- ▸Earned three ways: reaching one of the top three milestones on the Season Pass's premium track, finishing #1 in a season's final standings, or — extremely rarely — an idle-expedition Relay roll (Chapter 5).
- ▸Sellable on the Marketplace alongside Limited — the only two tiers a player can list for another collector to buy.
- ▸Rare to hold a duplicate of, but if you do, melting it still pays out a real shard yield rather than the 1-shard fallback.