Pack ripping glossary.

A

Alt art

An alternate-art version of a card with different, usually full-bleed, artwork.

B

Buyback

The platform's offer to purchase your pull, quoted as a percentage of its fair market value.

C

Card break

A live stream where a breaker opens sealed boxes or cases and sends the cards to buyers by spot.

Card grading

Professional authentication and condition scoring of a card, usually on a 1–10 scale.

Certification number

The unique number printed on a graded card's label that ties it to the grader's database.

Chase card

The rarest, most valuable card a pack can contain; it drives the headline max pull.

Checklist

The full list of cards a pack can contain, often grouped by tier.

D

Digital pack

A pack you buy and open on a website or app instead of in person; the card you pull is real and stored for you.

E

Expected value (EV)

The average value you get back per pack over many rips: each outcome's value times its probability, summed.

F

Fair market value (FMV)

The value a platform assigns to a card, usually based on recent sales of the same card in the same grade.

Floor

The lowest value a pack can produce.

G

Gacha

A capsule-machine style pack format, named after Japanese gachapon machines.

Grail

A long-sought, high-value card; on pack sites, the top tier of a pack.

H

Hit

A pull worth noticeably more than the pack price.

I

Insured value

The value a platform insures a vaulted item for, sometimes used as the basis for its buyback.

L

Live rip

A digital pack opened on a livestream, so viewers watch the pull in real time.

M

Max pull

The most valuable item a pack can produce.

O

Odds table

The published list of value tiers in a pack and the chance of landing in each one.

Oripa

Short for 'original pack': a Japanese repack format of randomized single cards, now mostly sold online.

P

Pack ripping

Buying and opening a pack online, where each pull is a real card or collectible the platform already holds.

Pack style

On Rips by Triumph, a choice of odds profile at the same price, such as Normal or High.

Pack tier

The price level of a pack within a platform's ladder, such as Starter, Gold or Diamond.

Platform margin

The difference between what a pack costs and its expected value: the operator's cut.

Population report

The grader's count of how many copies of a card have received each grade.

Provably fair

A draw whose randomness can be checked after the fact.

PSA 10 (Gem Mint)

The top grade at PSA, the largest card grading company.

Pull rate

How often a given card or tier comes out of a pack, usually expressed as a percentage or 1-in-N.

R

Raw card

A card that hasn't been graded or slabbed.

Redeem

Take a physical card out of the platform's vault and have it shipped to you.

Repack

A pack assembled by a seller from individual cards rather than sealed by the manufacturer.

S

Sealed product

Factory-sealed packs, boxes and cases from the manufacturer.

Slab

The sealed plastic case a graded card comes in, with a label and certification number.

Sweepstakes coins

The two-currency model used by sweepstakes apps: purchasable play coins plus free promotional sweeps coins.

T

Tokenized card

A physical card represented by a token on a blockchain, such as Solana, Polygon or Base.

V

Vault

Insured, climate-controlled storage where platforms hold cards until you redeem them.

VRF (verifiable random function)

Public, verifiable randomness used for onchain draws.